Defense and Space

A graduate student team from the University of Maryland and Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics in China has won a competition to design a reconfigurable VTOL aircraft.

Tactical boost glide hypersonic developments accelerate as Pentagon ponders space-based surveillance and warning system.

Since USAF student and instructor pilots returned to flying the T-6 trainer in February, the service is averaging abouty 7.8 physiological events per month.

The GAO has assessed how the U.S. military collects and analyzes data for aviation mishaps and discovered gaps in the Pentagon’s approach.

Funding has been identified for a fly-off between competing armed scout rotorcraft prototypes and will not impact the budget for development of a replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk, the U.S. Army says.

The White House says it “strongly objects” to a provision in the Senate’s fiscal 2019 defense appropriations legislation that would eliminate $209 million in launch funding for the Space Test Program-4 (STP-4) mission.

Turkey will soon sign contracts to develop the infrastructure for a satellite launch capability.

Intel Corp. debuted a “beacon” capability for identifying and tracking small drones during an Aug. 15 event hosted by the Choctaw Nation near Durant, Oklahoma.

The U.S. Army is seeking information on autonomous cargo aircraft for use in a prototyping program to investigate the operational impact of unmanned resupply on sustaining ground forces.

Israel’s navy will acquire the Barak-8 air and missile defense system, jointly developed with India to safeguard its economic zones and strategic facilities.

China has confirmed that its Chang’e 4 mission to the far side of the Moon will be launched this year, setting December as the specific target.

Boeing is preparing the KC-46A tanker for the start of initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) in 2019.

U.S. truck maker Workhorse Group has completed flight testing of the first proof-of-concept (PoC) version of its SureFly “electric helicopter.”

The first of six Airbus A330 MRTTs for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) arrived on Aug. 14, two weeks before the service’s 50th anniversary.

A Philippine Air Force Hercules C-130T airlifter has been converted into a maritime patroller with two surveillance kits donated by the U.S.

F-22’s Poland deployment; Lockheed wins Next-Gen OPIR contract; Inside Israel’s networking warfare plans and the first firing of the Philippine navy missile.

Turkey threatens to look for allies elsewhere as it wrestles with unrest at home and spat with U.S. deepens.

Malaysia continues to grow as a low-cost aerospace supply chain node, as well as a potential marketplace for business aviation and commercial transport.

Two spacewalking cosmonauts trekked through a planned 6 to 7 hr. of science and technology activities outside the International Space Station on Aug. 15.

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The U.S. Air Force has deployed F-22 Raptors to Poland in what is the largest deployment of fifth-generation fighters into Eastern Europe yet.

Turkish Aerospace (TAI) is gearing up to offer its Anka medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air system to Indonesia.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Aeolus satellite mission promises to become the first to provide low-altitude Earth wind profile data on a global scale.

The U.S. Navy opened an Innovation Hub (iHUB) this month at the Naval Air Warfare Command Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent River, Maryland.

The USAF has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.9 billion contract to make three next-generation missile warning satellites destined for geosynchronous orbit.