Embraer plans to reduce its workforce through a “voluntary dismissal program” for employees in Brazil in light of a challenging global aerospace environment.
Instead of the ammo work being a breakeven project for Orbital as expected, the company has since learned it will lead to a $400 million operating loss.
The German army has increased the availability of its Tiger combat helicopters, which could be deployed in support of United Nations operations in Mali.
The Kuwaiti government has thrown Airbus Helicopters’ troubled H225 helicopter an urgently needed lifeline by purchasing 30 military versions of the aircraft.
While the U.S. Marine Corps is starting to see overall improvement in aircraft readiness, the service still has quite a bit to work to do across the spectrum of its aviation programs, according to Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller.
U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
Government-to-government deals, more rigorous setting of requirements and a renewed emphasis on indigenous production feature in Indonesia’s new defense acquisition policy.
A new assessment of nearly 4,300 exoplanet candidates detected using NASA’s Kepler space observatory has produced 20 Earthlike terrestrial planets orbiting their host stars within the so-called “habitable zone."
The first two Compass Call aircraft outfitted with glass cockpits under the $45 million Avionics Viability Program (AVP) have returned to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona after modification.
Argentina’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA), has completed the first flight of its IA-100 indigenously produced composite training aircraft
Magic Carpet is a set of software changes to the aircraft’s integrated controls to use the F/A-18’s angle of attack to help ensure the proper glidepath and provide a steadier aircraft controlled by relatively small and quick wing adjustments.
Malaysian maintenance firm Airod has completed a program of maintenance on its first Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Japan has issued standing orders to its armed forces to shoot down foreign missiles, five days after the country was caught unaware by the closest impact so far of a North Korean ballistic weapon.
As President Obama packs his bags at the White House after eight years in office, he leaves his successor with a trillion-dollar nuclear modernization portfolio.
Following the trajectory established when VAATE took over from IHPTET in 2005, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory unveils plans for a new national military-propulsion technology development program, ATTAM.
