Defense and Space

Boeing Defense, Space & Security CEO walks Aviation Week editors through the company’s recent realignment and answers questions about the state of the industry and Boeing’s plans on major defense and space programs.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security chief Chris Chadwick says established contractors need to show their customers “the art of the possible from an innovation perspective.”

The investigation of the A400M crash will cause additional delays to Airbus’s airlifter project.

Congress must act by June 30 or many U.S. companies will be hurt, says the president of a minority-owned Texas company.

Once a monopoly, ULA is countering a two-front attack from SpaceX and, now, Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Two Western fighter houses are in the best position to challenge the F-35 in the 2020s. Can their rivals hang in there too?

Engineers are having trouble extracting data from the flight data recorders of an A400M airlifter that crashed May 9 near Seville, Spain, killing four crewmembers.

India’s plan to procure midair refueler aircraft is progressing well, the country’s defense minister says, marking a major step to increase the operational reach of the air force.

Australia has begun building the infrastructure it will need to support its planned force of at least 72 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings, with much of the work driven by U.S. demands for tightened security of the aircraft and their systems.

Reports of the planned demise of the Atlas V rocket may be premature.

An investigation into the May 9 crash of an Airbus A400M airlifter is focusing on the aircraft’s TP400 engines and associated fuel system.

An Airbus A400M airlifter crashed on its first flight on Saturday, killing several flight test crew.

Aviation Week defense editors on the recent success of Dassault’s Rafale and Saab’s Gripen fighters and what that means for the rest of the market. Will it spell doom for the Eurofighter Typhoon? Does Boeing’s F-18 have a shot at more orders in Kuwait. And a peek at the upcoming competition for a Turkish fighter.

By implementing common interfaces, software and hardware, the U.S. Army anticipates considerable savings in development time, testing, procurement, training and, ultimately, deployment.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force and its Navy will enhance air-defense capabilities via six Smart-L early-warning-capability radars.

Despite many procurement disappointments, there are also many examples of defense programs which have worked as planned and have stood the test of time.

The cost and scope of two projects in Brazil—co-development and production of Saab JAS 39E/F Gripen fighters and construction of five submarines, the last of them nuclear-powered—will delay launching other major projects, such as renewal of the country’s surface fleet and the SisGAAz ocean and littoral surveillance system, according to industry executives at the LAAD defense and security show here in April.

After long delay in activity, Lockheed Martin resuming work on IRST development for U.S. military.

Qatar’s buy of Rafale jets seems to be linked to Qatar Airways’ new traffic rights to some of France’s regional airports.

A small research effort reveals that Japanese defense ministry technologists believe a radical alternative to the fighter as an instrument of air control may soon be available.

Think the KC-X tanker program was messy? The forthcoming EELV procurement could make it look like a walk in the park.

NATO Response Force transitioning into a rapid-reaction force to reassure Eastern European member-states that there will be timely support.

Within the last two months, three orders have been announced for close to a total of 100 Rafales, and suddenly the future looks bright.

Rolls’s results were worsening in a way not seen since the worldwide financial crisis of 2008.

Britain’s defense was not a talking point of the electoral campaign, despite unease over Russia and other countries.