The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $454 million, five-year contract to supply Wescam MX-10D sensor systems to upgrade the service’s RQ-7B UAVs.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that it arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio.
Boeing has underperformed and overspent in its contractual efforts to develop and produce the first core stages for NASA’s SLS, an agency IG audit says.
Satellites, Earth imagery, geospatial data and analytics provider Maxar Technologies said Oct. 9 it is speeding up its domestication into the U.S. from Canada and expects to complete the process in January 2019.
TransDigm Group’s proposed $4 billion acquisition of rival Esterline Technologies could cement the former in the pantheon of top-tier Western aerospace and defense suppliers and aftermarket providers.
Development by IHI and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency of the Epsilon solid-propellant space launcher is moving rapidly from one major revision to the next.
AeroVironment has teamed up with Washington-based Aerovel to enter the small tactical unmanned aircraft systems market to compete for a U.S. Army contract for a new fleet of Group 2-class UAS.
Aeralis, a British startup looking to develop a new-generation jet trainer, has begun crowdfunding to support the development of a concept demonstrator it hopes to display at a London defense show in 2019.
Britain’s decision to consider a single-source purchase of Boeing’s E-7 airborne early warning platform is being driven by concerns that the existing capability provided by the Boeing E-3 Sentry could soon be outmatched.
The milestone comes before the pending civil certification of the jet-powered, tactical tanker-transport aircraft by Brazil’s civil aviation authority, which is expected “very soon.”
The British defense ministry’s procurement agency has contracted to develop an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that could rescue personnel who have fallen overboard from naval vessels.
DARPA wants to take robotics underground with a challenge to autonomously search tunnel systems and cave networks for foes in combat or victims of natural disasters.
Boeing has delivered the interim fix, known as a fail-safe collar, to the U.S. Army and half of the program’s international customers so far to ensure the helicopter's rotor blades don't separate from the aircraft.
NASA has established an anomaly review panel to investigate a gyroscope issue that triggered the 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode late Oct. 5.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students verified the accuracy of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals at high altitude in research supporting the integration of rocket launches and suborbital spaceflights in the U.S. airspace system.
As the Pentagon forms its next budget request, U.S. Army acquisition officials have asked Boeing to describe the impact of delaying the initial operational capability milestone for the CH-47 Block II by five years, the company says.
