Military customers focus on upgrades in the absence of clarity and funding for new programs, while the civil market races ahead in technology and numbers, but remains relatively small in value.
From terrorist attacks to China’s aggressive “terraforming” of new bases in international waters, threats to a rules-based international order have seldom been so diverse.
The upcoming fighter competition means defining an operational requirement—something that has received no serious attention since Canada originally joined the JSF program in the early 2000s.
With deployments in Afghanistan, Mali and northern Iraq, Germany is increasing its defense budget beyond original plans, with new weapons systems accounting for much of the rise.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
The U.S. Air Force is reassessing its launch processing procedures with an eye toward dramatically increasing launches at its Eastern Range, according to Brig. Gen.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to further develop high-energy laser weapons to better defend Navy ships against attack, the company confirms.
Buffeted by this month’s Pentagon directive to cut its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and frigate fleets and a U.S. Government Accountability Office report questioning the fleet’s lethality and survivability, the U.S. Navy is spotlighting the LCS 3 USS Forth Worth’s successful year at sea in the Western Pacific.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA a $51.7 million contract for additional work on its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) line, as well as future frigate work.
Russia’s upgraded MS-1 Progress resupply capsule carried out an automated docking with the International Space Station early Dec. 23, delivering 5.8 tons of propellant, crew supplies, spare parts and research hardware.
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The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) Task Force 50 is now under the command of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which now plans and conducts coalition strike operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy says.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 90 USS Chafee returned to Pearl Harbor earlier this month from an independent deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 4th and 7th Fleet areas of operations.
NASA has scuttled plans for a March 2016 launch of the multinational Mars InSight lander because of an inability to resolve a small vacuum leak in a key European instrument.
Virgin Galactic is expected to complete assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo suborbital space vehicle in time for external painting to take place over the holiday break.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
With the new acquisition directions from Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the U.S. Navy will soon have to better address some of its bedeviling bandwidth issues.
