The FAA has granted a team headed by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) a waiver to fly small drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator using an onboard detect-and-avoid system.
The Sea-based X-band radar (SBX-1) is now receiving repairs and capability upgrades at its unofficial operating hub at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii.
Despite the U.S. Defense Department’s near-term emphasis on the test and development of rocket-boosted hypersonic glide weapons, most proponents of high-speed defense doctrine concur that mastery of air-breathing technology is critical to the longer-term viability of Mach 5-plus tactical systems.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking information on the domestic capability to produce small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and components.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking information on the domestic capability to produce small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and components.
Sierra Nevada Corp. has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur as the launch vehicle for its winged, reusable Dream Chaser cargo carrier.
The House Appropriations Committee’s mark of the fiscal 2020 defense appropriations bill cuts $80 million from the Boeing MQ-25 Stingray, citing excess to need.
The U.S. Navy is rallying Congress to not cut fiscal 2020 funding for weapons programs like the hypersonic glide body, which if the reduction stands would delay the program for a full year.
With volatility rocking the financial markets and warnings of the first economic downturn since the Great Recession growing, new reports from credit rating agencies are measuring how the aerospace and defense industries rank.
DARPA has formally launched a program to build and fly an X-plane designed around active flow control, potentially eliminating the need for moving control surfaces.
French air navigation service provider (ANSP) DSNA has joined a consortium of European ANSPs participating in the Iris satellite-based data link program, Inmarsat announced Aug. 14.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force introduced two types of Russian general-purpose bombs into service with its Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker fighters following a recent live fire exercise.
RAYTHEON has $29.8m U.S. Navy contract for production of 82 F/A18CD-108B/ALE-50(V) Control, Dispenser, Decoy, Countermeasures Integrated Multi-platform Launch Controllers.
The Israeli Defense Ministry has issued a price and availability request to the U.S. Navy’s international programs office for the acquisition of the Boeing V-22 aircraft.
The Aug. 9 story headlined “South Korean SRBM Capable Of Pull-Up Maneuver” should have said that the North Korean KN-23 missile first appeared in February 2018.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Aus-tal USA LLC, of Mobile, Alabama, a $23,099,311 for cost-plus fixed-fee task order to accomplish advance planning, material procurement and accomplishment of work.
