Defense and Space

The Pentagon says data from an upcoming four-year test campaign covering 40 flights and three basic vehicle concepts will lay the foundation for a comprehensive hypersonic weapon road map.

The German Navy has chosen the NH90 to replace its aging fleet of shipboard Westland Lynx helicopters.

Sales to Riyadh generated 13% of company revenues in the first half of 2019, the British defense company told investors July 31 as it detailed its half-yearly results.

David Norquist previously was serving as the Pentagon’s comptroller.

Airbus says Germany’s ongoing suspension of export licenses for defense equipment to Saudi Arabia has cost the company more than $222.9 million.

Leonardo says it has secured a launch customer for the fighter attack (FA) version of its M-346 jet trainer.

Russia’s Progress MS-12 resupply mission spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station’s Russian segment at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 31.

Responding to operational concerns caused by hypoxia events in fighter and trainer cockpits, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory plans to demonstrate sensors that could monitor and alert pilots to their physiological state in flight.

The swarms of small satellites are intended to provide near-continuous coverage of areas, operating in parallel with Israel’s full-sized Offeq spy satellites.

NASA tagged 13 U.S. companies on July 30 to partner on seven broad technology fronts needed to advance the agency’s future deep space exploration goals, including a return to the lunar surface with human explorers in 2024.

Orbit Beyond, based in Edison, New Jersey, was one of three companies awarded lunar flight contracts by NASA on May 31. The company had agreed to deliver up to four payloads in September 2020 for a fee of $97 million.

Space Development Agency answers critics and questions in industry day event.

DARPA's goal is to demonstrate an aircraft that can fly and maneuver with no moving control surfaces.

President Donald Trump’s pick for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, denied allegations of sexual assault made by a junior officer while the accuser sat in the front row during his Senate nomination hearing to serve as the No. 2 uniformed officer in the military.

A motion to lift President and former fighter pilot Rumen Radev’s veto of the purchase was passed on July 26.

As competition heats up in the arctic and Antarctic, the head of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Gen. Charles Brown, called for acquiring more ski-equipped airlifters.

Procurement of three unmanned surveillance helicopters for the Japanese navy will begin in the fiscal year beginning in April 2023, the Yomiuri Shimbun says, narrowing down the timing of a long-expected program.

A Pakistani military aircraft crashed in a suburban area near the city of Rawalpindi July 30, killing at least 18 people.

More than 600 UK-based aerospace firms have applied to the European Aviation Safety Agency for third-country OKs in preparation for a potential no-deal Brexit.

Washington remains the best state in the U.S. to be an aerospace manufacturer or to locate a new business, consultancy PwC says in its latest ranking of manufacturing attractiveness.

Malaysia’s prime minister says the country wants to work with Turkey to develop its aerospace and defense industries, as the latter is willing to share its tech.

Still wanting 20 more fighters, the air force’s interest has drifted away from a repeat order for F-35As.

Equipment development, acquisition and maintenance—which traditionally has taken about a third of Chinese defense spending—has shot above 40%.

Exposure to solar and galactic cosmic radiation could impair the brain function of human explorers during long-term missions to the Moon, Mars and other deep-space destinations.

Congress provided the funds after lawmakers were convinced the program was making progress rectifying platform deficiencies, including a problem with the aircraft’s engines re-ingesting exhaust.