A group of private equity investors and aerospace managers have teamed to create Los Angeles-area Karman Missile & Space Systems, which they bill as one of the largest independently owned pure-play suppliers for the space, missile, interceptor and hypersonic markets.
Pressure continues to increase on President Joe Biden to reassess the location of U.S. Space Command headquarters, as three members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have requested that the executive branch conduct a “comprehensive review.”
Space Force Cancels Blue Origin, Northrop LSA Contracts Irene Klotz, [email protected] As expected, Blue Origin and Northrup Grumman—losing contenders in the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement—have had their precursor Launch Service Agreements canceled, the Space and Missile Systems Center confirmed on Jan. 29.
ArianeGroup is gearing up for the hot-fire testing campaign of the first complete Ariane 6 upper stage, after it left the assembly and functional evaluation facility in Bremen, Germany.
Dassault Aviation received an order for 12 additional Rafale fighters from the French Ministry of Armed Forces on Jan. 29 as a replacement for 12 secondhand aircraft sold to Greece’s air force.
Northrop Grumman is giving up a legacy contract that supports testing of cluster bomb components after a decision to apply sustainability precepts to the work, leaders of the large defense prime said Jan. 28.
NASA’s efforts to address the threat of mounting orbital space debris are insufficient and need to be augmented, an agency inspector general’s audit says.
All three air chiefs of staff involved in the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) are emphasizing the importance of achieving first flights of the demonstrators by 2026.
The new merger of the two General Dynamics information technology business units into a new Technologies division is raising eyebrows for a potential spinoff someday, particularly as large mergers and acquisitions continue to be announced across the military, space and intelligence services sector.
Aerovel has conducted reliability testing of its Flexrotor vertical-takeoff-and-landing Group 2 unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Special Operations Command.
Annual revenue reported by the Aeronautics Systems division in 2020 was higher, and, notably, included what Northrop’s filing described only as a “$444 million sale of equipment to a restricted customer.”
Germany is restarting its heavy transport helicopter program and looking to solicit bids for competing platforms through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales process.
Private equity investor Veritas Capital significantly boosted its national security space, defense and intelligence services profile on Jan. 27 as it announced a deal to buy Perspecta for $7.1 billion and merge it into portfolio company Peraton.
