Defense and Space

Target Arm is to add autonomous precision navigation to its prototype Talon universal launch and recovery platform for small UAS under a contract from the USAF.

Industry in Denmark, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK have secured component repair work for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

India is taking the next steps toward shortlisting Indian strategic partners and foreign manufacturers to produce 111 Naval Utility Helicopters (NUH).

U.S. Trump administration officials have publicly acknowledged ongoing problems with the export of UAVs that the aerospace industry has voiced for some time.

Sikorsky has announced an accord with on-demand helo service provider Blade that will give the Lockheed Martin firm access to data on the urban air mobility market.

After 26 years, the Philippines is back in the air-surveillance business. Thailand and Indonesia are also buying ground-based radars.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES West geostationary weather satellite has been declared operational, the agency declared Feb. 12.

The Pentagon released its first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) strategy Feb. 12.

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) climate research orbiter is embracing new duties.

The U.S. Army has taken the first step to acquire four new battalions of ground-based defensive systems against fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and large unmanned aircraft systems.

Flir Systems is buying the former iRobot defense unit, one of the Pentagon’s top unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) providers, for $385 million in cash.

UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey has revealed the first details of its partnership to develop a high-altitude pseudo-sat developed for the cartography mission.

The Pentagon's Inspector General plans to evaluate whether the U.S. Air Force followed the rules when it certified SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets to launch national security payloads.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is supportive of a $750 billion fiscal 2020 defense budget and does not care how the Pentagon gets there, even if it means using the wartime funding account.

India’s state-run defense agency has tested an indigenously developed ramjet propulsion technology for long-range, air-to-air missiles.

Costs of the Calt Long March 3A-series space launcher have dropped dramatically with an acceleration in usage, industry managers say.

The international Starburst Accelerator group is partnering with worldwide networking group Techstars to launch a startup-business accelerator focused on new business models pursuing new space technologies.

German concerns about defense exports could still rattle the FCAS project.

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is sounding an urgent note as the agency’s Commercial Crew Program prepares for test flights of SpaceX and Boeing vehicles.

“Bowling pin,” then “snowman” and now “giant pancake” and “thick, dented walnut,” That’s how NASA’s New Horizons mission team has moved along with its description of Ultima Thule.

Boeing delivered the fifth KC-46 aircraft to the U.S. Air Force on Feb. 8—the first to Altus AFB, Oklahoma.

Australia will begin upgrading its facilities next year at a Malaysian base from which it patrols the South China Sea and north Indian Ocean.

The Israel state comptroller says he will investigate Israel’s Air Force One program, which is lagging behind schedule and eclipsing its original budget.

The UK's decision to leave the European Union could force a launch startup to move to Germany.

The UK's RAF is planning to introduce a fleet of network-enabled UAS that will be able to confuse and overwhelm ground-based enemy air defenses.