A new tribute to NASA’s space shuttle era featuring the agency’s original Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will open for public display adjacent to Johnson Space Center on Jan. 23.
Although Australian defense officials are keen to increase the army’s Chinook fleet to 10 aircraft from the current seven, the defense department in Canberra says it has not yet decided even to ask the government to approve buying more of the aircraft.
Eleven NASA-funded investigations will probe the health and performance issues expected to confront astronauts assigned to future deep space exploration missions.
Bell is testing new rotor blades and an infrared suppression system for its V-22 Osprey as it pushes to modernize and improve the tiltrotor’s reliability.
Aurora Flight Sciences plans to offer its 120-hr.-endurance Orion unmanned aircraft to meet an expected U.S. Air Force requirement to purchase ISR services to augment its overstretched General Atomics Predator/Reaper fleet.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Information Systems, San Diego, a $55,681,130 modification to exercise the option on a previously awarded contract for Battlefield Airborne Communication Node platform maintenance and support, the Pentagon announced Jan. 19. The work will be performed at overseas locations and is expected to be complete by Jan. 31, 2017. Fiscal 2016 overseas contingency operations funds in the amount of $55,681,130 are being obligated at the time of award.
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS-VERTEX AEROSPACE (Miss.) has $42m U.S. AIR FORCE contract for T-1/T-6/T-38 undergraduate pilot-training support; expected complete Sept. 30, 2021.
Separate and independent analysis of surface-temperature measurements on land and at sea around the world revealed 2015 as the warmest year yet since record-keeping started in the 19th century.
India successfully put into orbit its fifth navigation satellite on Jan. 20, inching closer to creating a regional navigation system for supporting terrestrial, aerial and marine systems.
A new Chinese state company expected to be announced late this month is likely to be divided into civil aviation, defense aviation and surface-power divisions, incorporating Avic propulsion subsidiary Avic Engine and other government gas-turbine enterprises.
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships are going from short-punch vessels to the proving ground for the service’s next surface-launched-over-the-horizon missile.
The U.S. should take several measures that involve increasing American ship, aircraft and missile operations in the Asia-Pacific, according to a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
With an eye toward demonstrating “advanced battery technology,” the U.S. Navy is readying its Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle prototype for an open-ocean solo transit in the Pacific Ocean this year.
The Missile Defense Agency is preparing plans to improve the effectiveness of homeland missile defense by a factor of 12 by the end of the next decade.
Adm. John Richardson, the U.S. chief of naval operations, and his Chinese counterpart, Adm. Wu Shengli, the commander of the People’s Liberation Army Navy commander, have discussed “opportunities” to meet in person later this year.
Germany is preparing to begin a search for a successor to its long-serving fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion helicopters, and it may not have to look very far.
The Canadian armed forces are working to secure funding for life-extension programs for their fleet of CH-146 Griffon utility helicopters and CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters.
U.K. defense officials are studying inflight refueling of helicopters in order to meet commitments set out in last year’s Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR).
NASA’s First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars is already influencing the agency’s evolving efforts to reach the Red Planet with astronauts in two decades.
A Russo-Chinese cooperative program for an unusually large helicopter should move into full-scale development, with an agreement due to be signed this year.
While avoiding a direct reply to a December memo by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter questioning the Navy’s reliance of presence over posture, service Secretary Ray Mabus says there is little differentiating between the two for those under his charge.
