Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) will prioritize operational performance and profit growth, and it will focus on being a leader in six major market segments – none of which are fighter jets – as part of the business unit’s “new start,” the new chief executive told Aviation Week.
An upcoming demonstration flight at NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Palestine, Texas, will mark the agency’s first use of the site since 2009.
Mars One will stress problem solving through teamwork as the Dutch nonprofit with investor- and reality-TV-backed ambitions of colonizing Mars in the late 2020s settles on a rigorous, five-day third round of a prolonged astronaut/settler selection process. Its date and place have yet to be set.
As Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s weapons division prepares to double Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kit production from 75 units per day to 150 by next summer, the production facility in St. Charles, Missouri, has temporarily manned its second shift for a trial run.
The Indian government has given the go-ahead for the export of the Indo-Russian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to several countries, including Vietnam and Chile.
Singapore sees the importance of the rotational U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon patrols and the accompanying American security relationship, but the small Asia-Pacific nation acknowledges the complications of a rising China, Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen says.
Montreal is home to the third-largest commercial aerospace cluster in the world, and Quebec’s provincial government is moving to expand and diversify an industry that is critical to the local—and national—economy.
With the U.S. military losing six jets to accidents in a span of about two weeks, the Navy is canceling upcoming Blue Angels air shows and the service’s “air boss” is asking the aviation community to focus even more on safety.
Sierra Nevada Corp. is using its multi-billion-dollar NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) as a marketing starting gun aimed at selling its Dream Chaser lifting-body vehicle for missions all over the emerging low Earth orbit economy and beyond.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security has added Qatar as its 12th confirmed international customer for the AH-64 Apache after securing a $667.5 million foreign military sales contract with the Gulf state for 24 “Guardian” E-models.
A Chinese J-10 fighter intercepted a U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane earlier this month over the East China Sea at high rate of speed that the American air crew believed to be unsafe, Pentagon officials say.
Under the terms of a new four-year agreement, Aerojet Rocketdyne will become Raytheon’s primary, long-term supplier for existing propulsion systems and explosives.
The rollout of laser-guided rockets to operational theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan is continuing, with BAE Systems confirming on June 8 that the U.S. Air Force has fielded its mid-body guidance kits for the 2.75-in. (70mm) rounds on the Lockheed Martin F-16 and Fairchild Republic A-10.
With the development of lasers, railgun and hypervelocity projectile (HVP) weapons, the U.S. Navy has its best potential menu yet for alternative missile shields, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says in a recent report.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is rolling out several new programs aimed at better securing the perimeter and access control areas of smaller commercial service airports from external and insider threats.
Textron Systems’ unmanned RQ-7B soars past its 1-millionth flight hour, with the vast majority of those spent shadowing insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from above.
Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation for space activities, has formally rescheduled the launch of its first Modified Soyuz with three new International Space Station crewmembers from June 24 to July 7 to accommodate additional software testing.
Russian jet maker Irkut Corp. on June 7 showed the first Yak-152 light piston engine trainer prototypes being assembled at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant in East Siberia.
U.K. light aircraft manufacturer e-Go Aeroplanes has handed over its first serial aircraft, marking the formal start of production of its e-Go ultralight.
