Defense and Space

The National Commission on the Future of the Army has proposed a compromise on the controversial plan to shift Boeing Apache attack helicopters.

Low-boom supersonics heads NASA’s flight-demonstrator options, but advanced subsonic transports are also in the mix

What do the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and U.S. Special Operations Command have in common?

U.S. Air Force orders for the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter could be cut back in the fiscal 2017 budget, to be published Feb. 9, according to Katherine Blakeley, budget research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

U.S.-built electric microspray thrusters operating in the micro-Newton thrust range have checked out on the European Space Agency's Lisa Pathfinder gravity-wave spacecraft.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $25.7 million contract to begin risk-reduction work on the next Air Force One.

F-35s fly with speed and g restrictions – and most weapon tests needed special treatment to hit the target, according to a Pentagon test report.

The Malaysian government has selected MD Helicopter’s new MD530G as the country’s attack helicopter.

A commercial launch of Russia’s Proton M/Briz M rocket successfully orbited the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite Jan. 29.

French defense procurement agency DGA has ordered four new Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules airlifters from the U.S. Air Force in an effort to make up for capabilities shortfalls and delayed deliveries of the Airbus A400M.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s December memo directing the U.S. Navy to reduce its proposed Littoral Combat Ship buy and pick only one design raises a number of questions, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report.

Formation Flexrotors; submersible UAVs; miniature missiles for more punch; Lufthansa’s drones for hire; build an assembly robot for Airbus.

F-35s fly with speed and g restrictions – and most weapon tests needed special treatment to hit the target, according to a Pentagon test report.

“We’re couple of weeks away from finishing the telescope,” said Lee Feinberg, the optical telescope element manager, during a press briefing in the balcony overlooking the clean room where the work is taking place.

Designated as the Navy’s unmanned warfare systems office, N99 will not take over existing programs run by air, sea or subsurface weapons groups.

China has confirmed a schedule for major steps this year in its manned space program, with plans to send astronauts to a second orbital laboratory in preparation for building a space station.

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) X-2 fighter technology demonstrator, formerly called ATD-X, is due to fly in February, testing systems that Japan’s defense technology agency is preparing for a possible future combat aircraft.

The Navy’s Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) began its Government Acceptance Test (GAT) earlier this month on a critical meteorological system.

Despite a negative shift in stock market sentiment this month, most analysts remain cautiously optimistic about A&D’s prospects for profitmaking.

Testing for the Air Mobility Command’s high-priority aircraft will follow the KC-46A refueling trials now underway.

The Arizona senator accuses United Launch Alliance of “manipulative extortion” on RD-180 engines; cargo carriers fight FAA fuel tank AD; NASA ponders how to use funding windfall; U.S. nuclear weapons seem here to stay.

Lockheed Martin parlays urgent need for air-launched long-range anti-ship missile into a chance to compete to arm U.S. Navy’s surface vessels.

With the U.S. federal budget soon to be released, the annual debate over the ...

On Earth and in space, NASA’s nationwide work force paused on Jan. 28 to mark the space agency’s annual Day of Remembrance, a tribute to the 17 astronauts and the families of those who perished in three tragedies.

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are to further develop their competing radars for the Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (JStars) replacement under 18-month contracts to be awarded by the U.S. Air Force.