The House Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), has cautioned the incoming Donald Trump administration against raising the defense budget much beyond current levels.
A trio of U.S., Russian and European astronauts launched to the International Space Station Nov. 17 for what promises to be a demanding six months aboard the orbiting science lab.
Columbia, Maryland-based Applied Defense Systems will develop cloud-based software for automated orbit analysis, maneuver planning and collision avoidance for OneWeb.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas , who tops President-Elect Donald Trump’s short list to lead the Defense Department, is urging the U.S. Air Force to retire the aging B-52 bomber and instead buy enough copies of Northrop Grumman’s next-generation B-21.
The deployment will take place shortly after the U.K. declares its initial operational capability (IOC) for maritime operations from the ship, which is currently scheduled for the end of 2020.
If the Trump administration endorses the move, this “space situational awareness” function long filled by the U.S. Air Force could be taken over by the FAA in 5-6 years, the agency says.
A New Zealand program to replace six Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion maritime patrollers should be completed by 2026, according to an acquisition plan published on Nov. 16.
LEONARDO-FINMECCANICA’s multi-mission C-27J Spartan began tour to demonstrate its capabilities to a number of Latin American countries. The aircraft will travel the length of the continent from Panama to La Paz, Buenos Aires and on to Argentina’s Antarctic Air Base of Marambio. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS has $208m Australian Defense Force (ADF) contract under the LAND 53 Phase 1BR program, to deliver soldier modernization technology.
The global mobile satellite services market should expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.83% by 2020, Technavio forecasts. Increasing demand for satcom in emergency situations and real-time location data using so-called Internet of Things technology are major market drivers. But the sector faces challenges including congestion of frequency bands.
SpaceX envisions building a massive constellation of 4,425 small spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) over the next decade to provide satellite-internet with “full and continuous global coverage,” according to the company’s application for FCC approval.
Naval Air Systems Command’s Precision-Strike Weapons office is making preparations to more than double the range of the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon and Raytheon AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon.
Facebook says the test demonstrated a record data rate of almost 20 Gbps over 13 km (8 mi.), enough to stream almost 1,000 high-definition videos simultaneously.
The U.S. Air Force’s push to regenerate its red air aggressor capability is part of a wider move to improve the fidelity and quality of training for the pilots of fifth-generation aircraft, the commander of Air Combat Command says.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has modified the payload bay of its semi-stealthy, unmanned Avenger aircraft—now dubbed “Angel One”—to deliver humanitarian relief.
Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.
Drone delivery startup Flirtey has begun the first commercial trials of autonomous pizza delivery, flying to customers’ homes from a Domino’s Pizza store in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than 22,500 remote pilot applications.
