The U.S. should plan for the cost of an unbounded missile competition to encourage Russia and China to negotiate new missile controls.

Defense Department officials continue to lay the framework for a U.S. Space Force and will submit a proposal to the White House in early December.

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KC-390 nears operational capability; Indian Navy chooses Barak 8; Israel nears heavy helo decision; Indonesia wants a break on KF-X, and Raytheon’s Amraam boost.

Will this wave continue? The prudent answer is “yes”—but with lots of caveats.

Working together to improve program performance is important not only for customers, but also for those who work on programs day in and day out, and to corporations who must answer for performance issues. The Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards honor those efforts.

Yearly, China introduces systems to find, track and attack U.S. targets beyond the first chain of islands to its east; and yearly, the deployed numbers rise.

Shipborne rolling vertical landing was developed to yield payload bring-back benefits and reduce engine wear.