India’s state-run National Aerospace Laboratories and New Delhi-based Mesco Aerospace Ltd. are developing a two-seater aircraft for pilot training and surveillance.
The State Dept. has OK'd the sale to Japan for up to nine Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft for $3.1 billion.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed the Telestar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C comm sat in a geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 10 after launch from Cape Canaveral.
The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly debating whether to own and operate its own MQ-9 Reaper fleet to build a cadre of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators.
DARPA has returned to the stratospheric domain with a project aimed at demonstrating that a lighter-than-air balloon can drift between wind layers to navigate at altitudes up to 90,000 ft. for days or weeks at a time.
The DOD will begin having “consultations” with congressional leadership on establishing a unified space command, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
The Trump administration is in “very frequent” discussions with Turkey to work through the security concerns that have put F-35 deliveries to the country on hold.
India’s proposed purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia is seen as unlikely to attract punitive measures from the U.S. as the deal enters its final stages.
Boeing will integrate the Lockheed Martin Legion Pod on U.S. Air Force F-15C fighters under a $208.3 million contract award from the service on Sept. 5.
