Defense and Space

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

The companies that lost out to Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA’s high-speed VTOL demonstrator have taken the wraps off their competing designs.

Air Force Special Operations Command is pushing industry to demonstrate an offensive laser weapon on an AC-130W by the turn of the decade.

The lead aircraft of a U.S. Army program to upgrade Beechcraft King Air 350ER-based MC-12Ws to the multimission Emarss airborne reconnaissance standard has flown for the first time.

The U.S. Navy’s fifth and final Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite is being raised to its final orbit after its June 24.

Pundits fear that British referendum could be catalyst for European disintegration.

The head of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has renewed his commitment to fielding an AC-130 “mini arsenal plane” equipped with a high-energy laser by the turn of the decade.

NASA has awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) a five-year, $196.3 million contract extension for operations of the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) through the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore.

The U.K.’s aerospace and defense industry has been left reeling after voters elected to ditch membership in the European Union.

India’s Nag—an indigenously-made, third-generation, anti-tank guided missile—is being prepared for induction into the country’s military forces, but with a slightly reduced range.

The Team Spartan joint venture proposing the Italian-built Leonardo C-27J to replace Canada’s outdated Lockheed Martin C-130 and de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo search-and-rescue fleets has proposed Comox, British Columbia, as its aircrew and maintainer training hub.

Tokyo would have to vastly increase its defense research and development budget to create an all-new fighter.

With production of several large programs ramping up this year, the challenge for French aerospace companies will be to maintain quality and schedule.

At the Pentagon and on Wall Street, they are beginning to consider the possible impacts from Trump vs. Clinton. On Capitol Hill, there is blow-back from Boeing’s Iran deal.

Splitting up is hard to do, but sometimes necessary. That is what Alcoa-turned-Arconic’s chief executive and chairman tells Aviation Week in a recent interview about his company’s future.

Airbus Defense & Space has been asked to begin sounding out potential possibilities for a German requirement to replace its Panavia Tornado combat aircraft in the 2030s-40s.

The potential vulnerability of the F-35 program's main data hub is now under control, the Pentagon says.

Long-delayed, completion of the FAA’s first rules for commercial operation of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, has been welcomed by industry.

Sierra Nevada expects to deliver the Dream Chaser atmospheric test vehicle in August to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for a new phase of drop tests.

As part of Israel’s push to maximize the autonomy of its new fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the country will develop its own cybersecurity system for the Lockheed Martin jets.

The U.S. Marine Corps sees mobile ground laser systems as a promising short-term technology for countering UAS threats and plans to develop the weapons over the long term to take out rockets, artillery and missiles, a high-ranking Marine says.

The first of 29 Airbus H135 twin-engine light helicopters for the U.K. Military Flight Training System (MFTS) is set to make its first flight by the end of July.

Airbus Defense and Space is pushing ahead with the development of an automated refueling system to reduce the workload of boom operators on its A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT).

With almost 200 F-35s set to call the U.K. home in the coming years, the U.S. and U.K. are talking up training and logistics.