The U.S. Air Force is asking for $1 million to stand up the project in its fiscal 2018 budget request—the first time the new capability has appeared on paper.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would allow state and local governments to impose “reasonable restrictions” on drone operations below 200 ft.
BAE Systems is preparing to perform a series of test firings of MBDA’s Brimstone 2 air-to-ground missile from the Eurofighter Typhoon as it moves to integrate the weapon for use by the British Royal Air Force.
North Korea’s new Pukguksong-2 solid-propellant ballistic missile has a range of more than 1,000 km (600 mi.) but less than 2,000 km, according to the U.S. military and a South Korean defense ministry expert.
Lockheed Martin has begun flight tests of its LM-100J commercial freighter version of the C-130J Hercules military airlifter, with FAA certification planned for 2018.
The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration has awarded a contract to UltiSat to provide C- and Ku-band connectivity to the Swedish Armed Forces in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Boeing is several months behind schedule on the tanker program, which means the first aircraft won’t be delivered until after September, top Air Force officials told Congress in written testimony May 25.
The U.S. Air Force is kick-starting a potentially multibillion-dollar program to replace the E-4B “Doomsday Plane” and the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury fleet with a single fleet.
Boeing has lodged a protest over the U.S. Air Force’s decision to allow L3 Technologies to choose the next EC-130H Compass Call aircraft, alleging an unfair conflict of interest.
Rocket Lab says that despite not reaching its intended orbit of between 300 and 500 km on its first test launch on May 25, the Electron vehicle performed nominally throughout most of the mission.
A push by the U.S. Air Force to equip the Lockheed Martin F-35 with the 500-lb. Raytheon-built GBU-49 has mitigated a looming five-year “capability gap” against moving and maneuvering targets.
The German Air Force is seriously interested in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the central node of its future networked strike complex, which includes unmanned surrogates.
“The drawdown of flying hours for the F/A-18A/B Hornet in future years is in accordance with the planned transition to the F-35A Lightning,” Australia's defense department says.
The legacy of the space shuttle and X-37B will come together in Phantom Express, the reusable launch vehicle that Boeing is to build and fly under Darpa’s XS-1 experimental spaceplanes program.
The U.S. Air Force is funding construction of new facilities to house its European operating location for RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft at RAF Fairford.
The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposes shifting the FAA’s air traffic control functions to a non-profit, non-governmental corporation by 2021.
