Responding to a need for more survivable space assets, the U.S. plans to shift its strategy for the future of its most advanced nuclear missile warning sats.
SpaceX is preparing to launch two prototype spacecraft to demonstrate technologies for a future broadband constellation consisting of thousands of satellites.
The U.S. Navy in its fiscal 2019 budget is seeking to significantly boost the number of Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets it is buying over the next five years.
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2019 budget boosts spending across the board for a sweeping modernization of the U.S.’s nuclear submarine, bomber and missile forces.
The USAF plans to retire its fleet of B-1B and Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bombers in a “Bomber Vector” road map that will be laid out in the coming weeks.
The U.S. Army’s budget request for fiscal 2019 realigns modernization spending toward six new priorities, a list that includes next-generation rotorcraft.
Airbus is to pay €81 million ($99 million) to resolve a German investigation into potential corruption over the sale of Eurofighter aircraft to Austria.
The Trump administration on Feb. 12 confirmed a return to Cold War-style defense posturing with a $686 billion budget blueprint for fiscal 2019 and beyond.
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Martin UAV has completed an 8.1-hr. flight with its V-Bat vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft, demonstrating the endurance capability of the tailsitting fixed-wing tactical UAV.
