Defense and Space

NASA lags in managing IT functions, which combined with its strategic missions and global outreach leaves it vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches, the GAO says.

India’s space agency has given the go-ahead for the launch of the GSAT-11 communication satellite, the heaviest to be built so far.

Sikorsky is “reviewing its options” after the U.S. GAO rejected its pre-contract protest of the U.S. Air Force’s UH-1N Huey replacement program.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off May 22 to deliver five more Iridium satellites into orbit and dispatch a pair of Earth-gravity mapping spacecraft.

Two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission (Grace-FO) spacecraft were launched on May 22 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg AFB.

The Pentagon is looking for a new sensor to monitor pilot breathing for the F-35 a year after a rash of hypoxia-like physiological episodes.

After a multiyear pause in mergers and acquisitions, aerospace and defense supplier Curtiss-Wright could be back into making regular, significant deals.

BAE Systems has almost completed transitioning support of the F-35’s electronic warfare system to the program’s first performance-based logistics contract.

Aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is turning an empty field north of its south Wichita plant into a state-of-the-art Global Digital Logistics Center.

The Israeli Air Force has used its F-35I in combat against Iranian targets in Syria, making the service the first to use the stealthy fighter operationally.

P.2HH development is being backed by the Italian Air Force, which wants to purchase 10 systems.

The introduction of a fully redundant precision landing mode in the Super Hornet and Growler should eliminate the need for stick-and-throttle carrier landings.

Software testbeds developed by Ball Aerospace and BAE Systems are evaluating a new app-based approach to situational awareness and command and control in space.

Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is growing its space aspirations by taking over the command and control of UK military space operations.

Government-focused private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has sold its Polaris Alpha information technology conglomerate to Parsons.

China launched a relay satellite for its upcoming Chang’e 4 lunar exploration mission on May 21 local time.

Insight into the smaller players in the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program was provided at the AHS International Forum 74 convention.

The T-100 integrated pilot training system for the U.S. Air Force T-X program will bring thousands of new technology and manufacturing jobs to Alabama and across the United States. Customer-proven and made in the U.S.A.

The contracts to study a sovereign UK satellite-based navigation system would follow the European Commission’s plan to prevent British suppliers from working on the Galileo in light of the UK’s impending exit from the European Union.

India has conducted the first test to validate life-extension technologies for its BrahMost supersonic cruise missile.

India has conducted the first test to validate life-extension technologies for its BrahMost supersonic cruise missile.

The commercial space sector is to play a significant operational role in future human low Earth orbit activities, as direct NASA funding of the ISS is to come to a close by 2025.

More than half of aerospace and defense companies surveyed last year said they are using so-called blockchain technology, according to a new report.

But Boeing argues it has long been a “proactive partner” in efforts to mitigate physiological events in F/A 18s.

Spacecraft software for drones, DARPA’s Gremlins on show, gunship launches drone, AACUS in action, HorseFly drone delivers, and recovery parachute for eVTOLs.