Defense and Space

Cubic will offer government customers an “affordable” ISR UAV capability with expanded range and payload over other existing systems in its class.

Maxar Technologies has won one of nine contracts to help the Missile Defense Agency build a prototype missile tracking system.

Pentagon officials are trying to gather feedback from the aerospace and defense industry for the Trump administration’s review of the U.S. automotive industry.

Zipline International is working with the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit to demo the potential for medical drone delivery.

The Pentagon is in the early stages of building a statistical model to predict what U.S. foreign military sales will be executed in the future.

Boeing has a new name for part of its drive to vertically integrate and become a more important player in avionics, and it is hiring Americans.

The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.

NASA has enlisted 13 companies, under agreements totaling an estimated $11 million, for advice on growing a U.S. industrial presence in low Earth orbit.

Thailand has contracted Saab to upgrade the country’s national command and control system for air defense, which is based on the company’s 9AIR product.

A second Bombardier Global 6000 business jet modified for electronic and signals-intelligence-gathering missions has made its first post-conversion flight.

Spire has chosen Arianespace to launch “a significant number” of its cubesats on a Vega rocket in 2019.

Airbus’ Zephyr S high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) has broken its flight time record by flying nonstop for almost 26 days.

In the past four years, companies have worked on 101 different small sat launchers, with 34 in development today, a Northrop Grumman industry survey says.

The DOD has renamed its innovation unit that focuses on attracting nontraditional companies to work on artificial intel, autonomy, human systems, info tech and space.

NASA has selected six U.S.-led enterprises to advance the development of 10 promising new space technologies on three broad fronts.

Fresh off a string of business unit divestitures, Triumph Group expects to slice off several more units this quarter.

Guest star Fred Kennedy, the director of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office, talks to Aviation Week about ways to revolutionize satellites, space launch and the U.S. Air Force’s reliance on stealth.

Maxar to build prototype missile defense space-sensor architecture; Latvia approved to buy Black Hawks; UK gets more F-35s, and Malaysia’s Su-30s need repair.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a precision tracking demonstration with a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper in the Pacific late Aug. 8, an official said.

The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.

A senior DOD official says a space-based interceptor to go after ballistic missiles is a “relatively easy technological challenge."

Aerojet Rocketdyne expects to win its “fair share” of a potentially $5-6 billion amount of propulsion work for the DOD's GBSD program, a top executive says.

The Pentagon is assessing how Lockheed Martin’s F-35 can be used to deliver kinetic weapons to aid with boost phase intercept.

Rocket Lab on Aug. 7 added 10 missions to its growing flight manifest for Electron, a small-satellite launcher.

Inadequate funding is exacerbating the low serviceability of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), the head of the service said.