As the U.S. Air Forces presses ahead with development of a next-generation nuclear missile, a new report says the service must retain the capability of adding multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, if the strategic balance shifts.
A new $312 million pretax charge against earnings for the U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program is not a material concern, prime contractor Boeing’s leaders said Jan. 25.
With Britain set to receive its first of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidons in 2019, it will be the first time the two countries have operated the same maritime patrol aircraft since the 1950s.
Raytheon and its partner, Italian defense company Leonardo, are exiting the increasingly crowded competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer, citing challenges reaching a “business agreement.
Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services has launched an internal research and development effort to create a cyberintrusion detection system to be included in the cockpits of military and civil aircraft.
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) formally inducted the first Boeing F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagles into its inventory during a ceremony in Riyadh on Jan. 25.
The UK defense ministry has disposed of its inventory of its Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missiles, which had been used to suppress and destroy enemy air defenses.
An international array of teams remain in the running for top money in the race to the Moon’s surface in the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize competition.
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Marillyn Hewson said Jan. 24 that she has used her meetings with new U.S. President Donald Trump to explain what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter prime contractor already is doing to help lower costs on the Pentagon’s largest-ever acquisition effort.
The Trump administration’s first long-range defense spending plan is a “critical opportunity” to signal U.S. strength, members of three leading Washington think tanks say.
Airbus Safran Launchers CEO Alain Charmeau has fleshed out a call to coordinate and guarantee an annual number of satellite launches using the Ariane 6 and Vega C.
Analysts are seeking to temper any expectations of increased defense spending fueled by Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) white paper that would add billions. “It’s not Christmas in July,” one panelist said.
John Grunsfeld—NASA’s former associate administrator for science, Hubble Space Telescope astronaut repair specialist and astrophysicist—has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the National Space Trophy.
VECTOR AEROSPACE has contract from undisclosed European government for overhaul of ROLLS-ROYCE T56 turboprop engines, which power C-130/L-100, P-3, E-2. AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE has readied European Space Agency’s Aeolus wind-sending satellite for shipment from Stevenage, UK, to Toulouse, France, for final testing. Launch aboard Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, planned by year’s end.
Outgoing Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, a former vice president of engineering for Raytheon, is a proponent of defense acquisition officials working in industry and then returning to public service. He says so-called revolving door concerns can lead to an unhealthy myopia on both sides of the customer-contractor relationship. “I thought it was invaluable for me to have 15 years in industry before I came back into government,” he says.
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The British government has declined to confirm or deny newspaper reports that the test of an unarmed Trident submarine-launched missile went awry, resulting in the weapon’s self-destruction off the Florida coast in June 2016.
