The UK government is to provide 50% of the cost of a 30-month, £18 million ($23.3 million) demonstrator project to convert the nine-passenger Britten-Normal Islander to hybrid-electric propulsion for short-range flights such as interisland routes.
HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND has $10m U.S. Navy contract for system integration lab activities supporting V-22 aircraft Constant Frequency Generator Control Unit design improvement effort for the U.S., Japan.
The European Union is poised to increase its space budget and create a dedicated Directorate-General for Defense Industry and Space for the European Commission.
Inmarsat is gearing up for the Nov. 22 launch of its GX5 satellite, planned to bring a major capacity increase to serve commercial and business aircraft flying in Europe and the Middle East.
When the UN arms embargo on Iran expires in October 2020, the nation will look to purchase fighter aircraft and battle tanks from China and Russia, a U.S. senior defense intelligence official says.
Belgium-based imec and its spinoff miDiagnostics are collaborating to develop a device that can acquire and transmit to ground-based medical experts blood counts and blood cell imagery gathered from astronauts on the International Space Station or future deep space missions.
Boeing is in the final stages of testing the Multi-Mission Pod (MMP) for P-8A export customers that want to add other intelligence-gathering sensors, including a ground surveillance radar, to the surface vessel- and submarine-hunting aircraft, an executive said Nov. 19.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has developed two turbojets in anticipation of defense ministry requirements for single-use reconnaissance, jamming or target drones.
As the KC-390 gets a new name and a new owner, a marketing battle with Lockheed Martin’s C-130 is intensifying over the future market of commercial derivatives of military airlifters.
In a surprise announcement on the third day of the Dubai Airshow, UAE defense officials confirmed they were in final negotiations with Saab for an additional two GlobalEyes.
NASA has cleared five more companies to bid for upcoming lunar payload flight service contracts, including SpaceX, which is offering its Mars-class reusable Starship vehicle.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Nov. 18 sustained a protest by Blue Origin of the U.S. Air Force’s National Security Space Launch procurement.
Mechanical damage to a sensor allowed pressurizing gas to activate and separate the stages of a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle in October 2018, resulting in the first Soyuz launch abort in 35 years.
