Defense and Space

NASA is re-assessing plans for a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to upgrade its solar power generation system with more efficient lithium ion power storage batteries.

The decision to upgrade to the AH-64E makes the Netherlands the second European nation to follow this path, after the UK.

“The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.

India’s space agency has successfully put into orbit two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—in a rare night launch for the country.

Lockheed Martin anticipates exporting the cruise missile in three years.

BAE Systems is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to cut the cost of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology.

Sean Stackley, best known as Washington’s naval acquisition czar under the Obama administration, has become L3's corporate senior vice president and president of Communications & Networked.

Saudi Arabia currently has 10 MH-60Rs on order through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.

Rockwell Collins is promoting a digital upgrade of the HGS-6000 Head-up Guidance System on the C-130J Super Hercules that will combine enhanced and synthetic vision for U.S. Air Force missions as well as for firefighting operations.

The fixed-price contract worth up to $7.2 billion came to Lockheed by default after Boeing and Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition earlier this year.

The fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill conference report allots the Pentagon $1.7 billion for 16 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Detecting and tracking “dark ships” suspected of smuggling or illegal fishing will be the first application for a radio frequency (RF)-based data stream collected by a new cluster of commercial cubesats scheduled for launch by the end of November

The Sikorsky Boeing team hopes to fly the SB-1 Defiant advanced rotorcraft demonstrator before year’s end.

The release of the U.S. Army’s broad agency announcement for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competitive prototyping program is imminent, an industry executive says.

The U.S. Air Force is implementing a series of corrective measures to reduce the number of physiological events that pilots experience while flying the T-6 Texan.

A belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business to Safran has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, the chief executive of the latter told analysts recently.

The Royal Thai Air Force has awarded Indra a contract to supply Lanza 3D long-range radars and an air defense command-and-control system.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense has unveiled two ground-based, counter-unmanned aircraft systems that it claims performed “successfully” in Syria.

India’s state-run space agency will launch two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—on Sept. 16.

The French ministry of the armed forces has launched a defense industry-wide effort to get out of the habit of using U.S. components subject to ITAR.

An operational MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system suffered damage Sept. 12 after landing with retracted gear on a U.S. Navy base in California, the Navy says.

South Korea’s three-month-old decision to buy six Boeing P-8As can move forward after the U.S. Congress approved the arms export on Sept. 13.

A startup with ties to a former NATO allied supreme commander and a retired National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director who is aiming to launch “the world’s first commercial constellation of high-resolution hyperspectral imaging satellites” just raised an initial $85 million investment.

The U.S. Air Force and Navy have informally established a joint team to combat physiological episodes to better align with the National Defense Strategy.

To meet an increased demand for canceling radio frequency (RF) signal interference, L3 has built a system that can do just that and is planning to expand it into a software capability.