To address the threat of anti-satellite weapons, the U.S. military and private sector are already using an alternative system to augment GPS for critical position, navigation and timing (PNT) applications.
U.S. SENATE confirmed former NASA administrator Mike Griffin as Pentagon undersecretary of research and engineering, Lisa Gordon-Hagerty as undersecretary for nuclear security at the Energy Dept., and John Gibson as Pentagon chief management officer.
U.S. and Japanese spacewalkers retrieved and externally restowed Latching End Effectors (LEE) on Feb. 16 that were removed and replaced on the International Space Station’s (ISS) 58-ft.-long Canadian robot arm during spacewalking upgrades in January and October.
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The service had hoped to kick off the competitive technology maturation and risk-reduction phase in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, but instead the “Milestone A” acquisition decision has shifted into the second half of fiscal 2021.
Fortem Technologies, Inc., a new Silicon Valley-funded firm based in Utah, has launched a new solution to the emerging threat of rogue drones trespassing near critical military and civilian infrastructure. &nbs
FAA OK of the 767-2C that serves as the baseline aircraft of the USAF's KC-46 tanker marked a first for the aircraft’s GE Aviation flight management system.
NASA is to continue its development of aircraft electric propulsion and step up work on urban air mobility despite cutting its budget request for aeronautics research by 3.3% for fiscal 2019, to $634 million. &
Major aerospace and defense supplier Honeywell said President and CEO Darius Adamczyk also will become chairman when current Chairman Dave Cote retires at the end of April. &
Lockheed Martin on Feb. 14 said it broke ground on a new, $50 million, 255,000-sq.-ft. research office facility in Orlando, Florida, and announced plans to hire there and elsewhere.
The fleetwide stand-down of the U.S. Air Force’s T-6 Texan II trainers across six operating locations due to a spike in unexplained physiological events has cost the service 82 new pilots and counting, a top official says.
The U.S. Air Force’s bomber force of the future will consist of Northrop Grumman’s next-generation B-21 and Boeing’s Vietnam-era B-52 Stratofortress, after the supersonic Rockwell B-1B and stealthy Northrop B-2 are phased out.
Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of a story that appeared in the Feb. 13 edition. The U.S. Navy in its fiscal 2019 budget blueprint is seeking to significantly boost the number of Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets it is buying over the next five years to help plug its strike fighter gap until the F-35C comes online.
The U.S. Army plans to request exemptions for some of its helicopters and airplanes that will not make the FAA’s January 2020 deadline to transmit their position to controllers by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast.
Three of the USAF's E-8C Jstars ground surveillance and battle management planes could be headed to the boneyard next year if the service gets its way.
