Defense and Space

By Matthew Jouppi, Sterling Richmond
Aviation Week has assembled this guide to some of the most important contests that are unfolding between 2023 and 2032.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
As the U.S. Army prepares for high-speed rotorcraft, the commercial helicopter industry continues its wait for advanced new technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Repeated sightings of a new form of low-observable features means infrared stealth technology is progressing out of military and industry laboratories.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
True Anomaly, a startup developing spacecraft for space domain awareness missions, has raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
L3Harris highlights the potential for the acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne to help the defense contractor become a larger player in space and missile systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The F-35 Joint Program Office head says he still cannot predict when a software issue that has halted deliveries from Lockheed Martin will be corrected.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
United Launch Alliance conducted a practice launch countdown, including fueling, of its new Vulcan-Centaur rocket on Dec. 12.
Space

By Irene Klotz
More than 15 months after a New Shepard booster failed, Blue Origin plans to resume flights of its reusable suborbital vehicle, with liftoff set for Dec. 18.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Satellite technology company Quasar is targeting the U.S. military market with a new, ground-based steerable phased array radar for space domain awareness.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has reshuffled how it presents its space-focused forces to combatant commands, modifying a scheme to have a broader goal of improving readiness.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK government is preparing to publish its Space Sector Plan in early 2024, laying out its national space capabilities ambitions.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Kosiniak-Kamysz will replace Mariusz Błaszczak, who led Poland through a radical equipment modernization program prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne, Brian Everstine
An ongoing software problem haunts Lockheed Martin’s production and modernization agenda for the F-35 as a raft of new competitors hit key milestones in 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on Dec. 11 received another $271 million contract to build six MH-47G Block II helicopters for U.S. Special Operations Command.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Orbit Fab and ispace have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing rocket propellants from lunar resources.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency on Dec. 11 successfully tested an upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The $280 billion largesse of the CHIPS and Science Act has started filtering down to the industrial centers supplying parts to Pentagon programs.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
L3Harris Technologies is adding two members to its board of directors, including a former CEO of erstwhile Raytheon, a deal with activist investor D.E. Shaw.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Belgium has been presented with its first F-35 even though the country has delayed delivery, awaiting certification of the latest software release.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
If Vulcan misses its Dec. 24-26 launch window, the next opportunity to fly Peregrine to the Moon is on Jan. 8, ULA CEO Tony Bruno says.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Destabilizing shocks, such as Hamas's bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, highlight a dangerous new security environment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Airworthiness testing included eight firings of a Raafel Spike Non-Line-of-Sight missile from the latest version of the heavy attack helicopter, Lockheed said.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK has established its second frontline F-35 Joint Strike Fighter squadron.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The FAA has agreed to a pair of recommendations from a GAO audit concerning current procedures for investigating commercial space mishaps.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Leonardo is making progress on the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Maritime Helicopter Replacement (MHR) project.
Aircraft & Propulsion