Defense and Space

For the Lockheed/Korea Aerospace Industries team, the advantage is in not having to bury any serious development costs in the bid price.

Hypersonic weapons offer advantages in four broad areas, including the ability to project striking power at greater range.

A missile test of some type had been widely expected, partly to measure the resolve of the untried Trump administration.

NASA has released a detailed scientific assessment of a potential mission to the intriguing Jovian moon Europa that would touch down on the icy moon in 2031.

Some production work resumed amid recovery activities at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 13, six days after a tornado swept across the 829-acre, 81-facility site.

The Turkish government has signed off on a development program for an indigenous turboshaft engine that could eventually go on to power Turkey’s T129 attack helicopter and future utility rotorcraft.

State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) has unveiled the design of its 10-ton-class Indian Multi Role Helicopter (IMRH).

Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to Mars.

In this week’s Check 6 with Accenture, we talk about President Donald Trump, international trade and the aerospace and defense sector, and impact of the Internet of Things on industry.

SideArm grabs Fury UAV; Clean Sky studies hybrid electric; NASA’s radiosonde glider; TsAGI’s stop-rotor helicopter; Airlander ready to fly; Gilat to develop conformal Ka-band.

Pakistan is considering AESA radar options for the ultimate JF-17 model.

The U.S. Marine Corps is keenly interested in pairing all of its manned aircraft with unmanned combat and multi-mission UAVs.

Indonesian military police have impounded a Leonardo AW101 pending an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its acquisition.

The lobbying group for France’s aerospace industry has released annual performance numbers earlier than planned, reacting to recent negative comments about the contribution of the industry to France’s 2016 balance of trade.

Taiwan will develop a version of its F-CK-1 Chingkuo fighter as an advanced trainer, rejecting local manufacturing of a foreign design.

A panel of aerospace and defense analysts has proposed ditching the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing 747-8-based Air Force One in favor of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber, or a less-costly militarized Boeing 737 fleet.

Boeing sees its F/A-18 Super Hornet as an ideal fit for the Indian navy’s requirement for approximately 57 Multi-Role Carrier Borne Fighters.

NASA’s embrace of cloud computing has been slowed by weaknesses that leave some data stored in cloud environments at risk, an inspector general's audit says.

Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks is to develop an embedded electronically scanned antenna for Ka-band inflight connectivity under a joint project with Airbus.

Why replace what still works? This ejection-seat company still relies on vintage warbirds to test its products.

Ejection seats have evolved along with the aircraft they serve. Here is a brief history of the changes time and technology have wrought.

In this week’s Washington Outlook: the president meets with airline executives, generals describe a budget crisis without admitting failure, the battle for heavy-launch business and an argument for commercialized space-traffic control.

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first LM-100J Super Hercules commercial freighter version of the C-130J military airlifter.

Despite facing a lawsuit seeking to block procurement, Darpa has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) demonstration.

Orbital ATK has filed a lawsuit against Darpa to halt a program it alleges would unlawfully subsidize the creation of a commercial competitor to the satellite servicing capability it is developing with private investment.