Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force plans to look into how much work it will take to convert Australia’s E-7A Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft into a U.S. Defense Department-compliant platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military’s logistics infrastructure is vulnerable to both physical and cyber attacks and Capitol Hill needs to help the Pentagon defend its weak points, the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok
The propeller-driven trainer and light-attack aircraft is designed to replace South Korea's KT-1.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Steve Trimble
Three industry teams have been selected to compete for the next signals intelligence sensor being developed for the U.S. Air Force’s high-altitude aircraft fleet.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Safran has begun producing Arriel 2E helicopter engines in Texas to support the U.S. Army’s purchase of the B-model UH-72 Lakota helicopter.
AUSA

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
South Korea’s DAPA defense acquisition agency has confirmed that its airborne early warning program, known as E-X Batch 2, has grown from two to four aircraft, but the agency is “struggling” in its negotiations with Boeing over its proposal due to its unexpectedly high cost.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected the small Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) from 18 space telescope proposals for further development and launch in 2025 to investigate the origin of chemical elements in the Milky Way.
Space

By Byron Callan
Congressional behavior, midterm elections, new technologies and rising startup companies are likely to drive change in the 2020s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee has proposed adding about $10 billion to the Pentagon’s budget request, adding funding to accelerate missile tracking satellites, defense systems in the Pacific and 16 more C-130s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS opened 125,000 sq ft National Defense Prototype Center (NDPC) in partnership with the National Institute for Aviation Research
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
A path to a more productive pilot training system for the U.S. Air Force may require buying hundreds of the proposed new Advanced Tactical Trainers, which suddenly appeared in an Oct. 12 request for information released by Air Combat Command.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Irene Klotz
The Lucy spacecraft, which launched on Oct. 16 on a mission to explore seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids, may have an issue with one of its 24-ft.-dia. solar arrays, the agency said on Oct. 17.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Turkish government is hoping it can use $1.6 billion that it paid for U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to pay for new-build F-16s and upgrades to its existing fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Hensoldt is hoping to bring an active-electronically-scanned array electronic attack pod to market for use on fast jets by early 2023.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
A decade-long investment by Nammo in solid-fuel ramjets has proven the feasibility of the technology for artillery applications.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Air Force experiments with satellite to augment GPS.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russian film actress Yulia Peresild and producer/director Klim Shipenko descended safely to Earth early Oct. 17 on the steppes of central Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with International Space Station (ISS) cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A NASA spacecraft has begun a 12-year, 4 billion-mi. mission to explore an unusual population of asteroids that became locked in Jupiter’s orbit during the early days of the Solar System’s formation.
Space

By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems plans to open a new National Defense Prototype Center to focus on the development and testing of high-temperature materials for the aviation, defense and space programs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants a new missile warning and directed infrared countermeasure system on its new HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue helicopter to replace the original equipment that meets requirements but does not meet current and future threats.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has cleared its troubled KC-46 to operationally refuel F-15s and F-16s as part of its ongoing rollout of interim capability releases for the tanker.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Heidi Grant to Vice President of Business Development (for defense, space and government services), based in Arlington, VA, of Boeing.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space, which is working with NASA to develop a commercial successor to the International Space Station, announced this week the completion of three joint design reviews for the project.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The partnership enables the two entities to partner on research and development opportunities, promoting U.S. space industry growth.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The venture capital and private equity firehose fueling space startups continues unabated.
Commercial Space