Defense and Space

Industry knows the risk of being targets of retaliation in a global trade war are growing. To them, the only way to win is not to start a fight.

Air navigation service providers increasingly are becoming involved in drone traffic management and remote-tower operations.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

USAF is investing in enhancing the ground surveillance capability of the MQ-9, and may even add a more powerful, podded radar in the future.

Did Brexit slow European UCAV development?; Lockheed’s space fence scheduled for operations in 2019; Singapore keeps defense dollars steady and Japan interested in Phalanx weapons upgrade.

The array of nuclear weapons touted by Russian President Putin confirms the U.S. is losing its lead, but the Pentagon says deterrence will prevail.

The cost to upgrade Lockheed Martin’s F-35 over the next six years could be more than $16 billion, according to an influential lawmaker.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has denied that the country has ruled out developing an indigenous fighter, even as a second local newspaper casts doubt on the plan.

The Aerospace & Defense industry consists of a complex web of buyers and suppliers. The days are long gone when low-tech, manual processes could keep track of all orders, inventory, compliance certificates, invoices, delays, and supplier performance data.

The future of the U.S. Air Force’s Adversary Air program at Nellis AFB, Nevada, will be decided in a new competition launched on March 3.

Dassault CEO Eric Trappier on March 8 expressed disappointment in the lack of progress in the Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator program.

Rivals’ progress makes it clear that, 60 years on, DARPA should not ease off on its task of preventing technological surprise, and creating its own.

Boeing Phantom Works rolled out the “T-1” tanking UAV prototype in November 2014, but kept under wraps until recently. Now, the covers have finally come off.

The Andrews facility that today houses the Air Force One fleet is not large enough to accommodate the new aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force is once again under fire from U.S. lawmakers over its fumbling of a helicopter program to replace the Bell UH-IN Huey, which has been in active service since 1970.

For the first time since the MSL Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists have used one of the rover’s sealed wet chemistry cups to seek organic compounds.

In his first public appearance in the newly created role of undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin stressed that near-peer adversaries like Russia and China are making advances in hypersonics that pose serious threats to U.S. forces.

Australia is closer to achieving its “OneSky” goal of merging its civilian and military air traffic control systems after signing $936 million in contracts.

A business-focused augmented reality provider favored by aerospace and defense backers has announced another round of funding.

Drones, unmanned vessels and watch towers have been added or are under consideration for the Singapore military as it battles a manpower crunch.

Indonesia is set to become the second export customer of the Airbus A400M airlifter, with the state-owned enterprise ministry intending to buy two aircraft.

Australian composites technology company Quickstep has moved to commercialize its Qure out-of-autoclave process in Europe.

The U.S.’s planned development of a low-yield nuclear SLBM and SLCM punctuates a turning point in the long-running drive toward arms reduction as Putin also unveils new weapons meant to undermine Western missile defenses.

Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.

Boeing’s master schedule currently pegs first aircraft delivery to the fleet in the second quarter, but the Air Force now believes delivery is more likely to occur in late 2018.