French President Francois Hollande and the National Assembly had set very different defense ministry spending plans before the Nov. 13 Islamic State group attacks in Paris. A robust response is forcing a change in those priorities.
Bomber lobby lays the groundwork for the kind of attack on its budget now threatening the F-35; new space bill allows citizens to mine the Moon for its water ice.
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory plan to chamber-test a 1-kg UAV early next year that could wind up flying as a scout for the rover in development for the 2020 planetary launch opportunity.
Robotic devices developed by NASA to assist astronauts aboard the International Space Station or to transport future explorers over planetary surfaces are fanning out into new realms.
The U.S. Air Force may solicit bids for 72 new Boeing F-15s, Lockheed Martin F-16s or even Boeing F/A-18E/Fs as budget issues put planned production rates for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter out of reach.
India has announced a plan to increase its annual satellite launches to 12 next year, up from four-five now, to ramp up its tally in the global launch market.
The U.K.’s new Strategic Defense and Security Review is likely to authorize two or three more squadrons of Eurofighter Typhoon fighters for the Royal Air Force.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.
House members are looking for ways to harness commercial spacecraft for weather forecasting and other Earth-observation applications traditionally operated by the government.
PowerPoint and whiteboards don’t cut it for teaching the new generation to fly, crew and maintain aircraft. This is what the military and civilian aviation worlds are doing about it.
Even though the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber is still in dispute, advocates for robust power projection are already mobilizing to define and deter reductions to the size of the future fleet.
Experts seem puzzled over when, where and how the global space industry will take over low Earth orbit tasks traditionally reserved for government space agencies.
The Asia-Pacific’s U.S. Task Force 72 aircraft fleet will be getting more P-8A Poseidons in the coming months as part of the nation’s regular cycle changes for the Navy’s new antisubmarine and intelligence-gathering patrol workhorses, says the task force commander.
