Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
CityAirbus makes first hops; Vahana fully transitions; Mobi-One seeks funding; artificial intelligence for fighters.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Turkish industry is responding to local and export needs for longer-legged, more capable drones. Two twin-engine MALE UAVs are currently in development.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
An Embraer KC-390 was spotted in Arizona on May 9 by online flight tracking services as it performed low-altitude extraction tests.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
A contract signing by July would break a string of protracted negotiations between Lockheed and the Joint Program Office over each annual production lot.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
Air forces operating the F-35 are beginning to exercise together with the fifth-generation fighter.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force announced plans on May 9 to reactivate the 65th Aggressor Squadron with Lockheed Martin F-35As.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
Failure to get approval to jam drones during a planned UK demonstration, even after months of trying, illustrates challenges facing industry.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. State Department has OK'd an export package to Qatar that includes 24 more AH-64E attack helicopters and 2,500 AGM-114R Hellfire missiles.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Two of Britain’s new E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning radar aircraft will be converted from secondhand Boeing 737-700s, a ministerial letter has revealed.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
As a member of the F-35 global partnership, Canada has agreed to terms that rule out offsets. But the Future Fighter Capability in Canada requires all bidders to submit proposals that comply with a policy which call for a 100% spending match on the value of the fighter contract.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. military has revealed a second major program in as many months aimed at experimenting with artificial intelligence in a fighter aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
An ex-U.S. Navy acquisition executive argues the bill to refuel the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman is not a large one in fiscal 2020, but the DOD will have to rework its fiscal 2021 draft request.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The top two leaders of major A&D supplier TransDigm Group will testify to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform panel about defense supply prices, along with defense officials.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is assessing what specific activities would be expected of astronauts on the surface of the Moon during the 2024 return called for by the White House before it forges ahead with the development of new lunar spacesuits.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force will have a new, $75 million, 53,000-sq.-ft. munitions research center in Florida by 2021.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
A two-year contract to design a 10 MWe-class, mobile nuclear reactor to power remote U.S. military bases and electricity-hungry weapons, such as high-powered lasers and microwaves, is now open for bidding.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Norwegian Air Force is to support noise trials for the basing of the F-35 in Denmark.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
A GOP member of Congress is urging House appropriators and defense authorizers to buy an additional eight C-130J aircraft in fiscal 2020 for the ANG and AFR.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Grounded for six years, the Philippines National Police (PNP) air wing has returned to the skies after the delivery of three light helicopters.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize military space would increase the cost to the government by up to $4.7 billion in one-time expenses and an additional $1.9 billion every year, the CBO says.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Startup XTI Aircraft has completed the first series of test flights of a 65% scale proof-of-concept prototype of its TriFan 600 ducted-fan VTOL business aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. greenlights up to $6 billion in sales to Middle East; The Space Force’s base of support; India’s new anti-airfield weapon; Turkey develops guided bomb.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks and Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to the Czech Republic.
Defense and Space