Defense and Space

Since implementing a new surface cargo route between the U.S. and Spain, U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella Site Rota cut cargo transit time and costs in half by mid-October.

U.S. refusal to allow access to the four key technologies for KF-X has resulted in a political furor in South Korea.

Foreign F-35 operators are being compelled to fund U.S. software laboratories that generate data crucial to the fighter’s ability to identify new radio-frequency threats.

F-35 official hints Canada’s suppliers could lose work if it opts out of the program; FCC proposes rules that could enable 5G wireless service; foreign investment in aerospace is rising.

Defense Department signals it is weighing how to open up the aerospace sector to encourage broader competition from lower-level players.

President Barack Obama vetoed the defense authorization bill on Oct. 22. It is his fifth veto since taking office, but could be the first of many.

Lockheed Martin starts building a 60-kW fiber-laser weapon for the U.S. Army, considers growth to 120 kW and sets its sights on Air Force and Navy high-energy laser opportunities.

French officials have confirmed that both France and the U.K. will likely pursue the joint development of a next-generation cruise and anti-ship missile.

“The tea leaves are saying it’s most likely next week,” a Northrop Grumman source tells Aviation Week.

“The tea leaves are saying it’s most likely next week,” a Northrop Grumman source tells Aviation Week.

With assembly complete, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft, the centerpiece for an asteroid sample return mission, will undergo five months of environmental testing.

The Finnish defense ministry has received the green light from the country’s government to begin the HX F/A-18 Hornet replacement program.

World View, the startup with plans for luxurious high-altitude passenger balloon excursions, has claimed a spot in the 2015 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book.

Huntington Ingalls Industries laid down the keel for the future DDG 117 USS Paul Ignatius earlier this month, formally beginning construction of the ship.

Naval forces and liaisons from India, Japan and the U.S. began Exercise Malabar 2015 earlier this month, emphasizing air defense collaboration.

Canada’s Liberals didn’t have to go on the record against the F-35. Nobody expected them to win an outright majority. Guess what just happened.

New Pentagon report shows subcontractors vastly outpacing prime contractors’ profit margins.

If Canada’s next prime minister follows through on his party’s campaign pledge to reject the F-35, it will increase the cost to other buyers by about $1 million per aircraft.

The SM-3’s North Atlantic missile grab; Boeing, India discuss making helicopters in India; new counter-UAV technology on display in South Korea; proposed $11 billion deal for U.S.-made combat ships.

Announcement of the Pentagon’s choice of a contractor to build the Long-Range Strike Bomber is “really, really close,” a U.S. Air Force official says.

The wave of counter-UAS systems hitting the market is a visible sign of growing concerns over the threat that consumer drones could become airborne IEDs.

South Korea will probably decide in early 2016 whether the proposed KF-X fighter will be equipped with the Eurojet EJ200 or General Electric F414 engine.

The first of 40 F-35 Lightnings ordered by South Korea should be delivered in the first quarter of 2018, Lockheed Martin says.

The guided-missile destroyer DDG 71 USS Ross intercepted a ballistic missile in the Atlantic during the Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum’s At Sea Demonstration.

A U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet crashed shortly after takeoff from an airbase in the U.K. on Oct. 21, killing the pilot.