Defense and Space

Organizers of the Farnborough Airshow have decided to halt its public weekend air show days.

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) became House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee chairman in January, after serving as ranking member.

The U.S. Commerce Department will lead an investigation into whether titanium sponge imports into the U.S. threaten national security.

The JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission team thinks there is “high potential” that the first attempt at a sample collection from the surface of the near Earth asteroid Ryugu was successful.

Mars’ northern hemisphere was dotted with at least two dozen large craters that appear to have been filled by groundwater about 3 1/2 billion years ago, and possibly part of a global subsurface aquifer, according to observations gathered by Mars orbiters.

The RAAF’s combat aircraft commander expected trouble in making F-35s operational. He has been pleasantly surprised.

The concept would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of future technology breakthroughs and surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the key challenges of the next 25 years will be fundamentally different from those of the last several decades.

Acknowledging the reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the U.S. Air Force has dropped the word “expendable” from the name of its orbital launch services acquisition program.

The U.S. Army is considering extended-range, maritime strike versions of the Precision Strike Missile as the U.S. government negotiates a withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

The proposal will include sensors and armaments to enable the Yak-130 trainer’s conversion into a combat aircraft.

Saudi Arabia has signed a $945 million downpayment for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from Lockheed Martin, the Defense Department announced March 4.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense is likely to move ahead with an attack helicopter acquisition in 2019, even though the program was left out of a five-year procurement plan published in December, an industry source says.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has more than one prospective buyer for the C-2 airlifter, a company executive said.

NASA’s Mars Insight lander has begun to dig deeper into the subsurface than any previous mission.

Dassault’s Eric Trappier has confirmed that work with Britain’s BAE Systems on an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator has ended.

Work on an engine for the TF-X fighter have been “substantially ramped down” Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East says.

New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

DARPA’s original late-1970s Assault Breaker sought to counter possibility of overwhelming waves of Soviet armored forces rampaging across Western Europe.

Uncrewed Dragon 2 mission a key step toward the resumption of human orbital flight from the U.S.

Singapore will buy four Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) for initial testing, with an option for eight more, its defense minister says.

GE Aviation has released the design of a next-generation military jet engine to suppliers.

“As of this morning we are still not accepting KC-46s, and I believe that will continue for some time,” Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told journalists March 1

The U.S. Navy is working hard to develop a pilot syllabus and conduct unit-level events to fold fifth-generation fighter capability into the carrier air wing.

U.S. antitrust officials have cleared French defense giant Thales to complete its roughly $5.5 billion acquisition of digital security company Gemalto.