Defense and Space

Military flight doctors are playing a crucial role in the Pentagon’s effort to understand and prevent hypoxia-like cockpit incidents.

In developing a jet trainer, Taiwan has begun in the middle, the defense ministry’s technology agency says.

Computers in spacecraft trade performance for reliability in a harsh environment, but BAE Systems has narrowed the gap between terrestrial and spaceborne processing with its latest generation of radiation-hardened processor.

Flight tests of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian Predator B variant have expanded to encompass longer-range excursions including initial flights through non-restricted airspace.

Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost A3 (“A-Cubed”) has selected Near Earth Autonomy to provide landing zone assessment technology as part of the sense-and-avoid suite on its Vahana autonomous single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator.

Canadian CF-188 Hornet fighters have arrived in Romania in readiness for a four-month air policing mission.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will have access to an air base in Western Australia for a further 25 years under an agreement signed on Aug. 21.

German defense electronics firm Hensoldt has acquired avionics supplier EuroAvionics GmbH from its owners, Equistone Partners Europe.

The Philippines has received a radar-carrying aerostat donated by the U.S. that will provide continuous surveillance of air and maritime traffic.

The Israeli Air Force has conducted aerial refueling tests with its first F-35s as it pushes to achieve an initial operating capability by year’s end.

Carrier trials preceded by synthetic testing led by UK F-35 pilot community.

The service has identified the key technologies it needs for the F-22 follow-on, including a more powerful engine and increased stealth.

According to Forrester Research, across all industries, 49% of global network security decision-makers report that they experienced at least one breach during the past 12 months.

Contributors from beyond the U.S. are helping to raise the $5 million needed to restore NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control Center.

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract to run a spares warehouse for the Asia-Pacific fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

Independent auditors have suggested the UK defense ministry could be facing a funding shortfall of around £30 billion ($38.5 billion) over the next decade.

Cobham will supply weapon carriage and launch equipment for the development program of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter.

Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. has chosen BAE Systems to supply the cockpit display system for the jet trainer that the Taiwanese company launched into full-scale development in April.

Completing development in four years might be easy enough if AIDC were just chasing the cockpit and avionics of the F-CK-1. But 80% of the structure is also changing and so are the aerodynamics.

Billie Flynn, the Lockheed Martin test pilot who flew the F-35A's premiere aerobatic performance at the Paris Air Show, opens up about what it's like to flight test both the F-16 and the Joint Strike Fighter.

The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.

The U.S. Marine Corps F-35B squadron stationed in Japan since January will fly to Guam next month amid ongoing tensions with North Korea.

Boeing and Northrop have made it through the second round of the U.S. Air Force’s effort to replace today’s 1970s-era LGM-30 Minuteman III with a new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent.

Boeing and Northrop have made it through the second round of the U.S. Air Force’s effort to replace today’s 1970s-era LGM-30 Minuteman III with a new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent.

The U.S. Air Force is weighing buying a new light attack aircraft to fight terrorists, and the investment would also help retain fighter pilots who are leaving in droves.