Italian defense and aerospace firm Leonardo-Finmeccanica is to establish a new U.K. entity focused on its three main core businesses: aerospace, defense and security.
After years of planning for major milestones such as declaring the F-35A ready for combat, the U.S. Air Force is finally realizing a few of its dreams.
The Air Force’s insistence that the F-35 will soon deploy to Europe, the Pacific and even the Middle East signals a shift away from the Pentagon’s historically more cautious use of stealth aircraft.
This week's Washington Outlook column discusses how the next president can best secure a budget deal, FAA's certification of Moon Express and Virgin, and the presidential candidates' mixed messages on space policy.
The ability of V-22 Osprey tiltrotors to perform carrier onboard delivery missions at night will offer the U.S. Navy greater potential to move passengers and cargo to and from the ships than the aircraft currently doing those operations, a Navy vice admiral says.
The loss earlier this week of another Hornet, an F-18C, is keeping the Navy on pace for is most expensive year for aircraft incidents since fiscal 2009, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
Shareholders of Pentagon tactical radio and FAA services provider Harris are seeing a slight boost in stock price after the federal contractor revealed a new stake by an activist investor, a development that has also spurred talk of divestitures.
Piaggio flies its MPA; U.S. bombers practice long-range mission; Russian companies beef up export marketing; Northrop wins contract for second Japanese E-2D.
Access to innovative commercial technology is not the problem, it’s the acquisition rules that can lead to its being reclassified as military, a Rockwell Collins exec argues.
FAA commercial-space officials have authorized a robotic lunar lander and a suborbital human spacecraft for flight, marking a regulatory double play for the private spaceflight industry.
As Air Force Special Operations Command’s legion of night-flying killers wreak havoc on battlefields around the globe from the AC-130 Stinger II and Spooky gunship, the first up-punched AC-130J Ghostrider armed with a 105-mm cannon has arrived at Hurlburt Field in Florida for developmental testing.
A top U.S. Air Force general has questioned the viability of a new plan being kicked around inside the service to pursue not one but two new aircraft programs to recapitalize the close-air support mission, signaling that Air Force leadership is still cool to the idea.
India will launch the advanced meteorological satellite Insat-3DR later this month in an attempt to improve the country’s weather forecasting and disaster warning capabilities.
An operational demonstration aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson helped determine how best to integrate V-22 Ospreys with other carrier-deck movements.
More details have begun to emerge about the plan of BAE Systems and India’s Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to develop a light attack version of the Hawk jet trainer.
The decision to declare the Air Force’s F-35A operational close to its target date of Aug. 1 is a triumph for a program with a long history of cost overruns, technological challenges, and schedule delays.
Patricia Sanders, an independent aerospace consultant and retired executive director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, will chair NASA’s seven-member Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, an independent group of experts responsible for advising the agency’s administrator on a range of safety issues.
