Defense and Space

Further cuts to Britain’s defense spending next year could mean the U.K. falls below NATO’s requirement of 2% of GDP, prompting concerns about the country’s defense aspirations.

What could spur Alcoa to pony up maybe $5 billion in less than a year? Aerospace and defense market share

USAF and SpaceX are modifying the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement signed two years ago to outline what has become the contentious process to certify the Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket for use in launching national security payloads.

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The U.S. Air Force’s interest in a possible new close air support (CAS) platform to replace the A-10 Thunderbolt II is about “capacity,” says Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle.

Giving up Sikorsky is shortsighted and could prove to be more of a disservice than a boon to investors.

The Airbus A330-200 Voyager multi-role tanker transport came close to being lost with all 198 passengers and crew onboard.

Driving down the costs of electronically steered phased arrays opens up new commercial and military opportunities.

Aviation Week has presented a lifetime achievement award to David Thompson, President & CEO of Orbital Sciences.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.

Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.

Carlos Kingston was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Defense Laureate for spearheading the MDA’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense team’s dogged pursuit to identify the cause and to ultimately cure an anomaly in the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.

Two winners took home Aviation Week’s Innovation Laureate for 2015—Raytheon and Saab pursued different routes to achieve the same outcome—introducing gallium nitride power electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems.

With the F-35 development program 60% complete and two years to go, the test program is operating at a high pace.

Testers say a software patch gets F-35 closer to promise of multi-ship data fusion.

The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.

Dassault Aviation, long noted for both its civil and military aircraft offerings, may eventually have to opt for a purely civil product line due to diverse market and political influences.

South Korea’s LCH-LAH is supposed to become the leading 5-ton helicopter. But the base type chosen by Korean Aerospace Industries, the Airbus H155, has not been a strong seller. And there is not a lot of time to make big improvements before the targeted 2020 entry into service.

Despite political headwinds, the U.S. Army is pushing ahead with a restructuring designed to protect investment in future rotorcraft.

Sikorsky has a full plate of helicopter programs, but they are just not profitable enough for parent United Technologies.

Reasons for the surge in mergers and acquisitions vary with the motivations of the involved companises.

The U.S. has little to show for the millions of dollars it has invested over nearly a decade for training and equipping Yemeni counterterror forces.

AgustaWestland and Boeing battle it out to upgrade the U.K.’s Apache fleet.

Bell Helicopter sees a chance that Japan will buy more MV-22 Ospreys than the 17 budgeted for the coming financial year.

There used to be stealth aircraft and non-stealth aircraft, but new detection technology is making that distinction more complicated.