Defense and Space

The latest tests of the updated US16E seat and new lightweight helmet used mannequins in the lowest weight class, representing pilots who face the greatest risk during an ejection.

Providers of satellite-based inflight wi-fi services for airline passengers are upbeat this year.

According to the Algerian defense ministry, the agreement covers the manufacturing of three types of light and medium helicopter for military and parapublic use.

The U.K. defense ministry has set aside £800 million to develop new defense technologies as part of an initiative to change the way the British defense ministry works with industry.

Honeywell International has unloaded its government-focused engineering and operations services business unit to a private equity giant.

Whether business activity comes to a plateau, soft landing or hard crash, manufacturers will not take notice until order cancellations or deferrals tick up to historical rates or beyond.

Successor of the U-2 spy plane, the unmanned TR-X will eventually have a stealthy shape and skin, allowing it to penetrate deep into enemy territory.

As U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command toasts delivery of the first Ghostrider gunship equipped with a 105-mm cannon, it now hopes to ride the air branch’s “Highway to HEL” by funding a high-energy laser demonstration on an earlier-model AC-130W.

This week's Washington Outlook column discusses Raytheon as a big donor in the New Hampshire and Arizona Senate races, Shuster's tight race in Pennsylvania and SpaceX and Blue Origin’s Washington ties.

NanoRacks, which pioneered commercial payload accommodation on the International Space Station (ISS), is teaming to study a concept for converting spent launch-vehicle upper stages into pressurized habitats.

As the long-troubled CH-148 Cyclone program enters its 12th year this November, Canadian government officials say Sikorsky is now executing according to the contract.

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to base a new deep-space habitat concept on the cargo module it is developing to mount behind the Dream Chaser reusable mini-shuttle.

The Indian Space Research Organization is polling scientists “to come up with proposals for carrying out more substantive scientific experiments” on its second Mars probe.

Equipping South Korean destroyers with SM-3s would be the latest in a series of measures in which Seoul and Washington are strongly reinforcing the country’s defenses against a growing North Korean ballistic-missile threat.

DSI’s long-term plan is to mine planetary bodies for resources and supply them to an emerging space economy.

A North Korean ballistic missile shot will encourage moves in Tokyo to strengthen defenses with imported U.S. systems.

Program execution is re-emerging as a make-or-break factor for companies as the focus shifts from selling to delivering across A&D.

Dividing the industrial impact of a U.S. presidential election used to be easy. Not anymore; 2016 is raising questions and making for strange bedfellows.

U.S. aerospace and defense companies explicitly plan less around any individual political leader nowadays and more over macroeconomic and sector trends.

Lockheed may move F-16 production to India; Argentina’s new trainer; helicopter market downturn; Germany increases readiness of Tiger helos.

The next possible addition to Seoul’s defense against North Korean ballistic missiles could involve equipping destroyers with Raytheon SM-3 interceptors.

If the Pentagon is forced to operate under a stopgap spending measure for an extended period, funding for Northrop Grumman to engineer and develop the B-21 will be capped at fiscal 2016 levels.

As the Pentagon considers pulling the plug on Raytheon’s troubled GPS ground-control system, the company says it is focused on completing key milestones and controlling cost by staying on schedule.

The U.S. Army is laying the contractual foundation for a $10 billion program to develop a T700 successor.

Orbital ATK and NASA have delayed the first flight of the company’s re-engined Antares launch vehicle until late September to accommodate traffic at the International Space Station and give engineers more time to prepare.