For many observers outside of the aerospace and defense world, a purported merger of multi-industrial conglomerates Honeywell International and United Technologies Corp. (UTC) may spark curiosity and the short question, “Why?”
Raytheon is emphasizing its integration and training experience, and the proven performance of the M-346 jet trainer, as it takes over the lead in Finmeccanica’s bid for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced pilot training program.
Virgin Galactic says dramatic improvements to the SpaceShipTwo hybrid rocket motor will significantly shorten the test flight program for the company’s new suborbital vehicle which was unveiled on Feb. 19.
With few new-start programs planned, Darpa’s fiscal 2017 budget request is focused on advancing several large demonstrations and transitioning technologies to their intended customers.
NASA will proceed with development of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), considered by the astronomy community a high priority successor to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
“DOD’s reports generally did not meet the requirements to include an evaluation of options for improving homeland missile defense and were not submitted by the required deadlines,” GAO says in a recent audit.
Dutch prosecutors hope to confirm by this summer the launch site of the Buk surface-to-air missile that shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, killing 298 people.
NASA’s evolving, two-phase Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) has an added potential to enhance a range of U.S. human exploration, planetary science and commercial space objectives through the possible addition of investigations, an agency-sponsored assessment says.
The first of Orbital ATK’s enhanced automated Cygnus resupply capsules departed the International Space Station laden with trash early Feb. 19 for a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after being docked to the orbiting lab’s U.S. segment for nearly 2 1/2 months.
The Defense Department is not conducting oversight to ensure that defense agencies are reporting counterfeit parts as required, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report says.
Responding to a Wall Street analyst’s question regarding a recent Pentagon comment about the construction of the next-generation aircraft carrier thus far being “undisciplined,” Huntington Ingalls Industries CEO Michael Petters says the follow-on ship work will be better.
CAE and DRAKEN INTERNATIONAL submitted joint bid for Contracted Airborne Training Services (CATS) program to Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND), to provide...
Deliveries of the Eurofighter Typhoon to Saudi Arabia and trading of equipment for the fighter to European customers helped boost revenues for BAE Systems last year.
Amid increased U.S. ship and aircraft patrols in the South China Sea, and with Taiwan flexing more muscle in the region, China has deployed surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, adding even greater risk to operations there.
The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division is helping create a virtual cyber testbed ship called USS Secure, designed to make cybersafe warships for Naval Sea System Command.
