The commerce panel’s bill, issued March 9, calls for a variety of changes and upgrades to FAA programs, but nothing as drastic as the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s proposal in February to separate the FAA’s air traffic control and modernization roles to a new non-profit, non-share government-chartered corporation.
The Navy has developed and started to field two major improvements for the F-18 aircraft line breathing systems that service officials say are making a difference for air crews and helping to cut down on hypoxia or other similar episodes.
While the Navy has been investigating reports of possible breathing-related incidents across the spectrum of F-18 aircraft, certain types of issues or causes seemed to related to aircraft type, service officials say.
U.S. plans to sell Pakistan another eight F-16s may have survived a congressional challenge, but Lockheed Martin still faces a gap in the production line before the aircraft are delivered in 2019.
Integration with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s logistics software program may delay the U.S. Air Force’s ability to declare the platform ready for operations on Aug. 1 as scheduled.
“The number is going to be in the billions; there’s no doubt about that,” Gen. John Hyten told the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee March 15. “But exactly where it comes out I don’t know."
New NASA science projects packed away for launching to the International Space Station late this month will attempt to further the agency’s deep space exploration ambitions.
Components for the first LM-100J commercial freighter version of Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter are being manufactured, with final assembly to begin in Marietta, Georgia, later this year.
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has picked four concepts for generating electricity from dim sunlight at low temperatures for more study aimed at powering spacecraft without nuclear power sources in deep-space regions that normally require them.
Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft last year will play a significant role in the giant defense contractor’s pre-existing goal of deriving a quarter of its annual revenue from international sales, according to Lockheed’s chief executive.
A failure by helicopter pilots to monitor instruments and make use of onboard automated systems were key factors in the loss of a CHC Scotia-operated AS332L2 Super Puma off the Shetland Islands in 2013, U.K. crash investigators have concluded.
Airbus Helicopters is set to certify a new lightweight health and usage monitoring system (HUMS), finally opening the technology to light helicopter operators.
Ahead of its certification firing trials, the weaponized configuration of India’s indigenous Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) TD-3 recently executed the successful firing of 70-mm rockets.
Boeing and the Paramount Group plan to cooperate on a militarized version of the high-wing, two-seat Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft (Ahrlac) to be named Mwari. Boeing will develop an integrated mission system that will enable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapons systems.
A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 14 carrying the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission en route to the Red Planet.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved possible $95m Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of 36 AIM-120C-7 Amraams, one missile guidance section, related equipment/services. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS has U.S. Navy contract to provide depot-level maintenance for F/A-18 A/B/C/D fleet. L-3’s Platform Integration division in Waco, Texas, will prime while L-3 MAS in Quebec, Canada, will inspect/modify aircraft structure.
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