Defense and Space

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) $7.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2018 includes almost $600 million over five years to finally begin addressing the hypersonic missile threat from Russia and China.

The news that the Dragon Lady will continue patrolling the skies indefinitely, revealed May 23 in President Donald Trump's budget request for fiscal 2018, is a reversal of the Air Force's previous plans.

The Trump administration’s request for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 was not accompanied by the regular five-year defense spending plan, leaving even suggested guidance for major defense acquisition programs officially unknown.

President Donald Trump’s first proposed budget for the U.S. Air Force keeps the service’s top modernization priorities on track, but does not include the major boost to procurement programs that many defense hawks had hoped for.

The U.S. Army continues to back the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) in its fiscal 2018 budget request, despite reducing spending on aviation accounts overall.

President Donald Trump's first budget blueprint for the U.S. Navy prioritizes readiness over buying new equipment.

The Trump administration's 2018 budget submission, released May 23, would increase readiness spending and protect weapons modernization programs, but there is little joy in the budget proposal for helicopter makers.

Poland has declared a need for a fleet of fifth-generation fighter aircraft equipped with long-range precision weapons to act as a deterrent against an increasingly aggressive Russia.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft went missing near the Indo-China border in the eastern state of Assam on May 23.

Taqnia, the Saudi company partnered with Antonov to develop the An-132D airlifter, plans to start building the aircraft in-country in 2020.

U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, call sign Crash, describes what it was like to fly the Raptor on its very first combat mission.

UtopiaCompression says a compact single-camera system that provides passive ranging for automated collision avoidance is ready for commercialization.

The defense deals announced during President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia underscore how the structure of the global defense market is changing.

China’s Avic has flown an export version of the Z-19 attack helicopter, with hopes of selling up to 150 of the tandem-seat rotorcraft over 10 years.

Two NASA astronauts are scheduled for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to replace a failed Multiplexer Demultiplexer.

Space Shuttle-era astronauts Ellen Ochoa and Mike Foale were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 19.

Arconic and activist investor Elliott Management have reached a deal on the makeup of Arconic’s board of directors and will work together in Arconic’s CEO search.

The ISRO and NASA are collaborating on a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite that will help scientists study changes in climate and environment.

A second test of North Korea’s solid-propellant Pukguksong-2 ballistic missile has resulted in another lofted trajectory flight of about 500 km range.

Boeing’s comments come as the Pentagon is in the midst of a cost and capability analysis between the F/A-18 and F-35, ordered by the White House, that will inform future budgets and force structure decisions.

Lockheed Martin and Boeing have emerged as the big winners from U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Navy’s premier submarine hunter, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, is about halfway through replacing the 1960s-vintage Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion.

India’s GSAT-17 telecommunications satellite will launch at the end of June aboard a European Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

Boeing is chasing potential AH-64E Apache sales opportunities with 10 different defense forces around the globe as it begins work on the first 38 of 50 UK models.

By 2023, Turkey’s centenary, President Tayyip Edogan wants the nation’s aerospace industry to fly its indigenous TF-X fighter. But the new fighter is just the one example, as Turkey is developing a trainer/light attack aircraft, UAVs, missiles, helicopters and a gallium-nitride-based AESA radar.