Defense and Space

Research and development organization Mitre has launched a prize challenge to help solve the problem of countering unauthorized small unmanned aircraft.

The Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) transited the Straits of Malacca and conducted routine operations in the South China Sea earlier this month.

The U.S. Navy failed to properly define engineering services in a recent technology-insertion solicitation, the U.S. GAO says.

The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 757 USS Alexandria arrived in its new homeport at Naval Base Point Loma in California from the East Coast after undergoing its regularly scheduled engineered overhaul at what the U.S. Navy called record speed.

If you believe LRS-B cost numbers or that Congress will buy 100 of them, you’re ignoring history.

Commercial space bill nears final passage; Middle East nations seek precision weapons; DHS pledges new security enhancements; and Ex-Im Bank reauthorization takes another step forward.

Representatives to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris beginning Nov. 30 will have access to the first year of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory -2.

BAE Systems has announced plans to cut its workforce as it slows production of the Eurofighter Typhoon.

As the U.S. Defense Department’s Third Offset strategy picks up steam, defense analysts are citing a need to fix Pentagon purchasing to make the concept work.

GJ 1132b, the closest Earth-sized exoplanet discovery yet, may prove greatly beneficial in the difficult search for evidence of life beyond the solar system.

Africa is becoming the new proving ground for “soft” Asian naval power.

Swedish defense firm Saab says it has delivered its long-awaited MS20 upgrade for the JAS-39 Gripen fighter aircraft to the Swedish armed forces.

BAE Systems is preparing to reshape its Hawk jet trainer for the light-attack market.

Naval Air Systems Command has been working to widen the V-22 Osprey’s flight envelope by testing rolling landing and takeoffs, which could pave the way for higher takeoff weights.

The U.S. Navy needs to do a better job of managing its maintenance parts for its...

Boeing, Lockheed’s LRS-B protest could be aimed more at Congress than the GAO

Avic reveals details about China’s answer to the F-35; Boeing and Tata pursue ‘Make in India’ manufacturing center of excellence; Textron readies small precision weapons for purchase in 2016; Lebanon’s low-cost UAV.

U.S. industry, banking on worldwide sales, worries that the glacial government approval process could affect pending export deals.

After the failure of the E-10, Saab re-imagines the multi-sensor, single platform surveillance capability.

Works in the Atlantic Council’s War Stories From the Future depict “how emerging antagonists, disruptive technologies, and novel warfighting concepts may animate tomorrow’s conflicts.”

UAE invests in tiltrotor and sends new light attack helos to Yemen.

While nuclear ship construction looks strong, there are still questions about some of its other ship lines in later years.

The U.S. warship patrols to prove that the U.S. Navy enjoys freedom of navigation in what China deems territorial waters is part of an effort to bolster regional ties.

The U.S continues to structure its Navy around the need to ensure security abroad.

Congress is moving toward final passage of a wide-ranging compromise commercial-space bill.