The management of NASA’s highest funded field center, Johnson Space Center (JSC), believes it can meet expectations under the agency’s proposed 2017 budget.
The Pentagon is asking for $1.2 billion over the next five years to create a “next-generation” launch system program that would include developing propulsion systems.
With F-35 delays and continued expanded reliance on F-18 aircraft, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are working hard to make the legacy Hornets last much longer than they were meant to, budget documents show.
ViaSat Inc. has pulled the plug on a launch this year of the ViaSat-2 Ka-band satellite atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and will instead loft the 6,400-kg satellite on an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket in early 2017.
Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
Environmentally friendly plants in France and Italy destroy outdated munitions and guard their technology, while conforming to European health regulations.
The savings will also help preserve budgets for the new T-X trainer and the Joint Stars Recapitalization (JStars Recap) program, both of which were threatened with delay.
The U.S. Army’s aviation spending request for fiscal 2017 is $3.6 billion, down more than $2 billion from the $5.9 billion in the defense bill approved by Congress last year. However, it remains the largest segment of the Army’s $15.1 billion procurement request.
MDA Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the agency is accepting some risk in reducing interceptor buys for the Aegis combat missile defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in fiscal 2017.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 plan maintains its funding for carriers and destroyers but – as recently directed by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter – cuts down on the number of Littoral Combat Ships and fast frigate successor vessels.
The budget plan appears to contain no real surprises except an apparent shift away from the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that has been a centerpiece in President Barack Obama’s space policy.
The reflects a base Navy future years defense program from 2017 to 2021 of $826.4 billion, or about $1.6 billion higher than the FYDP presented with the fiscal 2016 budget.
Altogether the budget plan includes about $13.2 billion for the Ohio-class replacement program across the future years’ defense program (FYDP), with the initial submarine included in fiscal 2021.
The U.S. and South Korea are looking to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system on South Korean soil in light of recent North Korean actions, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
The U.S. Navy will increase its planned future orders of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter in the fiscal 2017 defense budget to be released tomorrow, as directed by Defense Secretary Ash Carter in a December memo to the service.
