Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is pursuing missile defense sensors to address one of the primary threats facing the nation: hypersonic missiles.
Defense and Space

Lee Hudson
U.S. Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts says the CH-53K helicopter is on a “90-day bend in the curve” to prove it can meet its technical requirements.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Australia will upgrade its facilities at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Butterworth air base in preparation for the deployment of Boeing P-8As.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Australia has cut its programmed force of Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton maritime patrollers to six.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Top space force advocate in Congress says one could be created within two years, but a former Air Force general says the military has work to do first.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has expanded a contract agreement with Aerojet Rocketdyne to continue developing the AR1 booster and an upper-stage RL10C-X engine.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Counter-drone system provider Dedrone said it won first place in the third of three “ThunderDrone” rapid prototyping events.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
When it comes to investing in space-related businesses, companies often have been reluctant to pursue what they perceive to be big risks. But the organizers of a new study on the size of the space market think change is coming.
Space

By Tony Osborne
General Atomics’ SkyGuardian UAV is to make a transatlantic crossing for its international debut at this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo.
Defense and Space

Potentially blinding laser weapons are increasingly being pointed at U.S. military aircrews.
Defense and Space

Lee Hudson
A pilot was killed when an A-29 Super Tucano crashed in New Mexico while participating in a U.S. Air Force light attack experiment, the service said.
Defense and Space

Lee Hudson
One of the USAF's top acquisition programs, the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, will complete its critical design review by year’s end, a senior official says.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
President Trump has told NASA to make a fresh assessment of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center model for operating the agency’s field centers.
Defense and Space

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
South Korea has chosen the Boeing P-8 Poseidon over competing maritime patrollers offered by Airbus, L3 and Saab.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Satellite operators Airbus and Planet are to combine their respective capabilities in high-resolution and global, frequent-revisit Earth observation for joint offerings.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
U.S. civil and military officials are backing the Trump administration’s push to place responsibility for space traffic management in the Department of Commerce.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
As it accelerates planning for a new armed scout rotorcraft, the U.S. Army has announced it will brief industry on June 28.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines has enlarged its 2018-23 defense modernization program by 44%, budgeting for multirole fighters and the first of at least two planned subs.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army wants a new engine for the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Thai air force took delivery of a Sukhoi Business Jet (SBJ) on June 19, completing a 2014 order for three aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
After a lack of UK government support was blamed for the failure of a project to convert London’s waste into jet fuel, a new effort has taken a step forward.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkey has taken delivery of its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter despite ongoing efforts by U.S. senators to block the transfer.
Defense and Space

Lee Hudson
The DOD will use predictive analysis to anticipate future aviation mishaps and the services are adopting methods to gather that data, senior officials say.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Bell Helicopter demonstrates its V-280 tiltrotor prototype, built for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration, publicly for the first time.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Having developed and then armed its indigenous tactical unmanned air vehicles, Turkey is scaling up its drone ambitions.
Defense and Space