Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will remain closed at least through Thursday while a damage assessment team continues inspections to determine Hurricane Irma’s toll.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The third quarter of 2017 was not kind to Passur Aerospace, with the business intelligence, predictive analytics and big data company recently announcing a 13% drop in year-over revenue.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
L3 Technologies has bought Adaptive Methods, a systems engineering company specializing in undersea and antisubmarine warfare services for the U.S. military.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Contrary to previous concerns, astronauts assigned to long-running missions may not have to worry about anemia, a study shows.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
Work on India’s first lunar lander is almost complete as the Indian space agency targets March 2018 for its launch as part of the country’s second lunar exploration mission.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Ducommun has completed the acquisition of the corporate parent of Lightning Diversion Systems, a provider of lightning protection systems across the aerospace and defense industry.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor specializing in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has succeeded in its acquisition of engineering services group CDI.
Defense and Space

U.S Air Force is looking for a new aggressor aircraft to replace the 50-year-old T-38 currently flying mock aerial combat against the F-22 and F-35.
ShowNews

By Jen DiMascio
Less than a year after the Canadian government started negotiating with Boeing to buy 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets, the U.S. State Department let Congress know on Sept. 11 it had approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of the aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo says the AW149, a military spinoff of its AW189 commercial offering, would make an ideal replacement for the Puma if the type is retired at its current out-of-service date of 2025.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force’s largest nuclear cruise missile program since the Cold War can proceed unencumbered, with Boeing deciding not to protest the service’s Aug. 23 awards to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
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By Michael Bruno
Senate Democrats want to beef up so-called Buy American laws and regulations.
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Just months before the U.S. Air Force is slated to choose an industry team to begin developing a new aircraft to replace its existing battlefield command-and-control and surveillance fleet, the service appears to be considering scrapping the program altogether.
ShowNews

Sierra Nevada Corp. has filed a bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s cancellation of the Fixed-wing Utility Aircraft competition.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia is starting upgrades on nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs ordered in 1986.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
British concept work into rotary-wing unmanned air systems could result in the development of a production platform for use by the British Army and Royal Navy, Leonardo officials say.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Saab has lifted the veil on a specialized red-air aggressor version of its Gripen fighter in a bid to grab a share of the burgeoning air combat training market.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
While France's offer to supply Dassault Rafales may sound attractive, it seems unlikely that Brussels will take the bait; Belgium seems to prefer the F-35.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
France’s decision to arm its General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAVs, otherwise used for surveillance, signals the conclusion of a debate on the use of a lethal weapon from an unmanned platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The third ship of the U.S. Navy’s Ford-class carrier fleet, the CVN 80 USS Enterprise, will cost an estimated $12.6 billion to build.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Bahrain looks set to provide a lifeline to Lockheed Martin’s F-16 production line after making a formal request to purchase 19 F-16Vs and upgrade 20 of its existing fighters to the F-16V standard.
Defense and Space

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier has moved its Specialized Aircraft segment under the company’s business aircraft division.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Eumetsat has placed an option to launch a Metop-SG weather satellite aboard an Ariane 6.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Germany startup Lilium has received $90 million in investment to continue development of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) urban air transport aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is hopeful her recent extended mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will help medical experts better understand the physical and mental challenges sure to accompany missions spanning months or years to Mars and other deep-space destinations.
Defense and Space