Defense and Space

Northrop Grumman was one-sixth the size of its rival team but has the experience that counts.

Northrop Grumman was one-sixth the size of its rival team but has the experience that counts.

The 30-min low-speed flight of the first engineering development model (EDM-1) begins a three-year, 2,000-hr. flight test program.

The Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program and today’s source selection cannot be understood without looking at LRS-B’s roots.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active electronically scanning array radar.

A NAS report says NASA’s Earth Sciences Division budget is constrained and in need of a framework for prioritizing its choices for space missions.

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to be the first deputy assistant secretary of the navy (DASN) for unmanned systems.

U.S. Navy officials have made it clear they expect to rely on the Growlers more, even as the F-35C carrier-variant Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) come on line.

A U.S. guided missile destroyer has passed within 12 nm of Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands, which are under dispute by China and its neighbors.

Controllers operating the New Horizons Pluto probe have confirmed that the nuclear-powered spacecraft completed the second of four maneuvers designed to take it past a lone Kuiper Belt Object at the beginning of 2019.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active, electronically scanning array.

“The launch target for GSLV-Mk. 3 is December 2016. That will be followed with a second launch in December 2017,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.

Boeing’s KC-46A has been selected for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) new air refueling tanker.

Saab says it is ready for volume production of a fighter radar using gallium-nitride technology in an active electronically scanned array (AESA).

Funding cuts have curtailed U.S. Navy aircraft maintenance, exacerbating carrier wing gaps, a recent Hudson Institute report says.

The forward deployed expeditionary submarine tender Emory S. Land recently completed its Fleet Maintenance Activity Assessment (FMAA) in Guam.

Turbofan surprises testers and survives first controlled on-wing test of volcanic ash ingestion, providing data on what happens inside a jet engine flying though an ash cloud.

In September 2014, the U.S. Air Force began fielding an Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System

Aviation Week editors Senior International Editor Bill Sweetman and Naval Editor Michael Fabey break down the issue with the V-22 engine that investigators say brought down an Osprey in May.

The next major review of the SLS will come in 2017, when design certification will compare vehicle hardware with the design, leading to a flight readiness review in 2018.

Lockheed Martin believes “active safety” technology it has developed to help convoy drivers avoid collisions is ready for deployment now.

A lack of inflight and cockpit data continues to shroud the cause of a police helicopter crash that killed 10 people in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2013.

The U.S. Navy’s new Undersea Warfighting Development Center will help the service prepare to control that realm, a Navy vice admiral says.

An upgrade of the South Korean MSAM system aimed at dealing with tactical ballistic missiles will exploit most of the current equipment in modified form.

A micro-light aircraft of the Indian Army Aviation Corps crashed Oct. 21 minutes after taking off near Shillong in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on a routine sortie.