On Tuesday morning Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein testify on service posture before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Vectrus Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $15,800,659 firm-fixed-price modification (A00027) to previously awarded contract FA3002-17-C-0001.
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon have not yet figured out to get past an issue that spurred a suspension of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter deliveries, but the prime contractor’s chief executive said April 24 she is confident they will soon.
The U.S. Air Force has elevated its safety investigation into unexplained physiological episodes on the service’s T-6 Texan II trainer fleet, appointed a two-star general to lead the effort.
The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on the modernization of the high-altitude drone, and has floated the possibility of additional production orders, “assuming the necessary direction/authorization is provided.”
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is exploring algorithms that can help its command and control systems learn what is a missile flying through the sky and what is benign.
The Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud acquisition is “a building block” toward deploying and evolving artificial intelligence, according to a top official.
Airbus, one of the three companies involved in the four-nation Typhoon program, announced they had submitted their offer to the German defense ministry on April 24 on the eve of the ILA Airshow here.
Airbus says the trials demonstrated MUM-T capabilities to a so-called Level 5 capability, allowing the user onboard the manned aircraft full command and control over the UAS and its payload, including launch and recovery.
One of the trio of small UK companies behind the AUDS counter-drone system deployed by the U.S. Army has sold ground surveillance radars to India for its Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System program.
Startups in the automated drone and air taxi markets have attracted senior executives from the automotive and technology sectors as they seek to grow their operations.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $1.2b Foreign Military Sale to Mexico of eight MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopters and assoc. weapons, equipment and training.
The former Oklahoma Republican congressman takes the reins of the agency at a critical time, with the U.S. poised to resume human spaceflight, but on vehicles not of its own design.
The company has revealed to Aerospace DAILY work on two designs aimed at the lighter Future Vertical Lift categories, one being a winged compound helicopter with no tail rotor or push propeller.
Under the UK’s Project Guardian, the system will network British radar sites and airfields to generate a dynamic, real-time depiction of aircraft in the airspace under UK control.
“The idea is to begin to collect data on the human that has not been collected,” according to one NASA official, who said the agency will use several NASA aircraft, including an F/A-18 and F-15, for the assessment.
Mars might be within reach of human explorers by the mid-2030s with an annual budget roughly equal to the International Space Station, according to a forum of Mars exploration experts.
