A British spending watchdog says there are high risks to the UK’s plans to spend £178 billion ($224.9 billion) on new defense equipment over the next 10 years.
On Wednesday afternoon the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a panel in Washington on “The Future of Alliances and Extended Nuclear Deterrence.”
Amyx Inc., Reston, Virginia, has been awarded a $189,263,856 ceiling cost-plus-award-fee task order under the General Services Administration (GSA) Oasis Small Business Pool 1 contract.
The U.S. Air Force wants to grow from 55 fighter squadrons today to 60, with an uptick in enlisted personnel from 317,000 this year to 350,000 over an unspecified period.
The U.S. Air Force is filling in the details of a plan to study what commercial-off-the-shelf designs might be a good fit for a possible light-attack fleet.
As Norway looks to modernize its maritime patrol fleet charged with hunting Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, Kongsberg is looking to equip the nation’s new P-8 fleet with its Joint Strike Missile (JSM).
Bell Helicopter expects to achieve certification of its Model 525 helicopter in 2018, as it continues to investigate last year's fatal crash of the first prototype.
Honeywell Aerospace is investigating ways to make its synthetic vision systems “more robust” following a June 18 incident in Australia involving a medevac Pilatus PC-12 outfitted with the company’s Primus Apex integrated avionics suite.
NASA’s Mars 2020 robotic rover mission faces potential cost and technical challenges that could jeopardize efforts to meet a 20-day, midyear launch window, the agency’s IG says.
In an updated wish list sent to President Donald Trump’s transition team in January, the U.S. Air Force is asking for additional funding to study a potential low-cost, light-attack aircraft to fight Islamic State terrorists, along with money to buy more high-end F-35s.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking proposals for a compact high-power laser to be used in the flight demonstration of a podded self-protection weapon that can be carried by supersonic fighters.
The South Korean defense ministry has decided to import the navy’s next batch of anti-submarine helicopters, rejecting a proposal to adapt the Korea Aerospace Industries Surion.
The U.S. Army plans to upgrade almost 200 MPQ-64 Sentinel short-range air defense radars to counter reduced-signature cruise missiles and small unmanned aircraft as well as short- and long-range rockets, artillery and mortar threats.
SIERRA NEVADA CORP. delivered Dream Chaser spacecraft to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California Jan. 25 for several months of testing in preparation for approach and landing flight on Edwards AFB’s 22L runway. LEIDOS has $350m, 10-year U.S. Air Force contract to continue providing mission planning systems engineering and integration for Joint Mission Planning Enterprise.
German aerospace center DLR plans to fly a freight drone with a payload up to 1 metric ton by the end of 2017 under its research program for the year. To be developed under the Automated Low-Altitude Air Delivery (ALAADy) project, the unmanned aircraft is aimed at missions include humanitarian relief and urgent delivery of spare parts. Research is focusing on the safety aspects and economic benefits of operating freight drones at very low altitude and integrating them into the current air transport system, says DLR
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The first intercept test of the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IIA off the coast of Hawaii has been delayed due to poor weather conditions, but will go ahead “in the near future,” the Missile Defense Agency says.
President Trump claimed early Jan. 30 that he has cut $600 million from the upcoming low-rate initial production lot 10, estimated to be about 90 aircraft.
A Japanese cargo mission freighter is conducting a demo of JAXA electrodynamic tether technology to help stem the rise of large pieces of orbital debris.
L3 Technologies said Jan. 25 that its executives in charge of strategy and development and the company’s Electronic Systems business unit will be changing, and that the latter will be reorganized.
