If NASA is to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, prepare for expeditions to Mars and seek evidence of alien life in the Solar System and beyond, it must tackle a number of all-too-familiar management challenges, the agency’s Inspector General says in a new report.
The aircraft has been selected by the Austrian air force as a replacement for its 12-strong fleet of 50-year-old Saab 105s, although the procurement has yet to be approved by the government.
The U.S. Air Force sent Boeing proprietary data to Northrop Grumman during the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) competition and that is why Boeing is not bidding on the intercontinental ballistic missile replacement, according to the head of the House Armed Services Committee.
Unmanned aircraft developer UAVOS has flown a larger, modified version of its ApusDuo high-altitude pseudo-satellite, taking a step closer to its planned full-size stratospheric telecommunications platform.
Astronauts are prepared to embark Nov. 15 on a complex sequence of spacewalks outside the ISS to overhaul the cooling system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
An ongoing legal dispute between the U.S. government and Lockheed Martin over intellectual property rights has emerged as the source of a 2.5-year-long delay in activating a key F-35 system required to complete initial operational testing and make a full-rate production decision.
Avionics engineering firm L2 Aviation on Nov. 11 announced a subcontract from Collins Aerospace to install automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) capability on the U.S. Air Force fleet of KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tankers.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return spacecraft ended its lengthy stay at distant Ryugu late Nov. 12 U.S. time.
The German military is not accepting the latest delivery of two Airbus A400M aircraft because they do not meet contractual guarantees, the German Air Force said Nov. 13.
Liberty Hall Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on global aerospace and defense, has acquired engine parts maker Numet Machining Techniques to add to its growing Bromford Industries aftermarket company.
European missile manufacturer MBDA looks set to take a leading role in a European project to develop a counter to advanced ballistic and hypersonic weapons.
White House senior officials hedged late on Nov. 12 on the potential to achieve “enormous deliverables” in scheduled meeting on Nov. 13 between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A program that could lead to the development of a European capability to intercept hypersonic weapons has been granted funding by the European Union’s Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO).
The U.S. Air Force admits that the service and Northrop Grumman underestimated the complexity of the software upgrades required for the B-2 Defensive Management System Modernization.
The head of U.S. Air Force acquisition says one lesson learned from the light attack experiment is the need for special operators to have an armed overwatch capability.
