Qinetiq Target Services has completed a demonstration for the Royal Canadian Navy that involved emulating the risk posed to warships by multirotor drones.
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PRATT & WHITNEY MILITARY ENGINES has $353.2m U.S. Navy contract for performance based logistics sustainment of F135 engines for F-35s for the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense participants, foreign military Sales customers.
China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, and the U.S. should make sure to keep pace, according to the former deputy defense secretary.
Some analysts suspect U.S. defense budgets may be set up for a squeeze play by the early 2020s, while business aviation could feel an effect right away--good or bad.
The next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket that ULA is developing to succeed its Atlas and Delta platforms will be outfitted with avionics by L3 Technologies.
More-electric systems, engine-airframe integration and flight-deck apps are among new research projects to be backed by almost $73 million in UK government funding.
Research into a new class of materials that promise to “revolutionize aircraft construction” is being funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to test an unmanned, disposable glider that can be launched from a transport aircraft to deliver supplies to ground forces.
The possible foreign military sale of ordnance, equipment and services worth $415 million for a Singaporean training detachment of Boeing F-15s in Idaho has been OK'd.
CAPE CANAVERAL—On Tuesday, after a hiatus of 37 years, the quartet of thrusters at the rear of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired to test if they could keep the probe oriented with 10-millisecond pulses.
