Defense and Space

Israel Aerospace Industries is quietly developing a “soft kill” interceptor that will work in conjunction with the company’s Drone Guard counter-UAS system.

The five F-35s touched down after dusk at Marham on Aug. 3, joining the four aircraft that arrived in June.

The DOD is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government and nongovernment issued devices, apps and services while in operational areas.

Launch broker Spaceflight has begun integrating 71 satellites for a dedicated smallsat mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this fall.

India and Arianespace will try again to launch the country’s heaviest comm sat, GSAT-11, on Nov. 30, almost four months after its first planned liftoff.

Astronomers have gathered occultation observations of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the target destination for a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Venezuela’s government says two explosive-laden multi-copters were used in an apparent failed assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Latvian Foreign Military Sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters.

The LRDR scored higher than the SPY-6 in detection, multitarget handling and continuous operation, Japan says.

An outstanding issue with refueling U.S. Navy aircraft could cause yet another delay in Boeing's KC-46 tanker program.

Darpa has launched a project to mature flow control technologies to a level where they can be designed into next-generation aircraft to eliminate the need for moving control surfaces.

The U.S. Navy is accepting white papers from industry to inform a next-generation propulsion and power technology assessment.

A provision in the fiscal 2019 defense policy bill that blocks the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s to Turkey has cleared the full Senate and now awaits U.S. President Donald Trump’s signature.

Five veteran and three first-time NASA astronauts have been named to lift off on four history-making U.S. spaceflights that will end the long hiatus in the nation’s ability to launch astronauts on its own vehicles.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Aug. 2 that the funding would support the building of a production line in Ankara for the indigenous fighter program.

SpaceX recovery vessels gathered in the Pacific Ocean off Baja, California, late Aug. 3 to recover the company’s 15th Dragon cargo vessel.

As part of preparations for the naval version of India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to begin aircraft carrier operations, the indigenous fighter has undergone tests to check its arrestor hook system.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $40.4 million sale to Kuwait for various Mk-series munitions to use on Boeing F/A-18s, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) says.

NASA will prioritize avoiding another gap in U.S. human spaceflight activity over ending ISS support on a certain date, the agency's administrator says.

U.S. Air Force leaders, taken by the potential of reduced-cost space travel, are looking at ways expand cargo and transportation operations past the edge of the atmosphere within the next decade.

The Pentagon has shifted roughly $683 million in fiscal 2018 internal funding to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities by addressing combatant command gaps.

L3 announced Aug. 2 that Aerospace Systems combined with Sensor Systems to form the new ISR Systems segment.

Triumph Group’s long-running divestiture effort recorded another selloff as the aircraft structures and parts provider has closed on the sale of Triumph Structures-East Texas to Merritt Preferred Components.

Russia’s TsAGI central aerohydrodynamic research institute has completed initial aerodynamic tests on the VRT500 light helicopter.

Sweden’s defense materiel agency FMV has been authorized to enter agreements with the U.S. government for the purchase of the system. Stockholm wants to purchase four batteries.