South Korea’s Hyunmoo 2 short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) is capable of a pull-up maneuver, the government and local media say, describing a previously undisclosed characteristic that complicates defenses.
Last month, the Pentagon sent Congress a $160 million reprogramming request for the program, which service officials have previously said is underfunded by roughly $625 million because of a change in the acquisition strategy to accelerate the development schedule.
The end is near for Wesco Aircraft’s turnaround plan as the aerospace fasteners and machined parts provider announced Aug. 9 it has struck a deal to be acquired by new private equity investors for almost $2 billion.
The DOD is on track to establish a U.S. Space Command this month, and there is “a lot of angst” in the U.S. Army over determining roles and responsibilities.
The Pentagon continues to rally Congress to fund hypersonic missile programs, but is still falling short as a top House appropriator says he intends to not fully fund the effort in fiscal 2020.
The U.S. is stepping up work on defending against hypersonic missile even as its pursues several, seemingly competing high-speed strike weapon programs. Defense editor Steve Trimble and senior editor Guy Norris, talking with technology editor Graham Warwick, dig deep into what we do and don’t know about what the Pentagon is up to in the rapidly evolving field of offensive and defensive hypersonics.
Just having major operations within one state did not seem to tip the scale in PwC’s aerospace manufacturing attractiveness rankings. But one state has it all.
“None of this will happen if our team is unable to convince the Congress that we need to take a right turn in our space architecture,” Mike Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said.
The Range Systems Branch of the Armament Directorate at Eglin AFB, Florida, has opened a market survey to evaluate options for replacing the ubiquitous P5 Combat Training System.
“I think it was the right decision to pause the program. I call it a strategic pause to make sure we were doing things right,” Vice Adm. Jon Hill, MDA director, said here Aug. 8 during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
NASA this week conducted a successful 12-min. test of the abort-to-orbit profile afforded the Orion crew capsule by the multinational propulsion elements of its European Space Agency-provided service module.
Maxar's CFO Biggs Porter and CEO Dan Jablonsky declined to discuss details or comment on recent market rumors, including potentially selling the flagship MDA business, but they did not rule out anything.
The U.S. Army will award a contract using other transaction authority within the next three weeks for a company to produce a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), according to a service official.
Serving all customers in the region, the completion center is capable of simultaneously working on four medium helicopters, such as H175s. Assembly and delivery capacity is 20 helicopters a year.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V launched the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite early Aug. 8 after several delays.
While ADS-B has been installed on various military models, only a few of the roughly 13,000 manned DOD aircraft will be equipped when the mandate takes effect.
USAF leader campaigns for space-based sensors; Japan lifts F-35 grounding; Protected satcom satellite to launch; Indonesia’s indigenous combat aircraft pod.
Boeing remains committed to reaching mid-teen operating margins despite ongoing issues with the 737 MAX and growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, Boeing Chairman, CEO and President Dennis Muilenburg said Aug. 7.
The DOD is conducting a “zero-based review” of all department functions and activities to identify time, money and manpower funding that can be reallocated to its high priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.
