Reusability for SpaceX means bringing the first stage of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle back to a vertical landing on land or a ship at sea. For Europe, it could mean capturing the rocket stage while it is still in flight.
The UK's defense ministry has signed off on a long-awaited contract to purchase five E-7 airborne early warning aircraft from Boeing in a $1.98 billion deal.
BAE Systems is testing a software program for the U.S. Air Force to effectively distribute air battle planning and monitoring, and projections for the outcome, under a DARPA program.
U.S. Defense Department to begin making components for new ground-launched cruise missile systems once banned under terms of the now-suspended INF Treaty.
The Philippines Air Force will return at least one grounded UH-1 helicopter to service within five weeks as the service begins receiving parts donated by Japan.
The Defense Department has found that the top 10 states by total defense spending in fiscal 2017 received accounted for $239.7 billion of $407 billion total tracked that year.
The Swiss government is to split state-owned aerospace and defense company RUAG into two separate operating units, one of which will later be privatized.
Japan prepares to buy F-35s; Egypt signs agreement for Su-35s; BAE integrates new missiles on F-35; agreement may open Brazil spaceport to U.S. rockets.
DARPA plans to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system that can be assembled on orbit to expand U.S. operating presence in cislunar space.
What the JAXA Hayabusa 2 science team members have witnessed from their spacecraft at the asteroid Ryugu is making them more eager to study samples of its surface and subsurface.
