The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.
House members are looking for ways to harness commercial spacecraft for weather forecasting and other Earth-observation applications traditionally operated by the government.
Even though the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber is still in dispute, advocates for robust power projection are already mobilizing to define and deter reductions to the size of the future fleet.
Experts seem puzzled over when, where and how the global space industry will take over low Earth orbit tasks traditionally reserved for government space agencies.
The Asia-Pacific’s U.S. Task Force 72 aircraft fleet will be getting more P-8A Poseidons in the coming months as part of the nation’s regular cycle changes for the Navy’s new antisubmarine and intelligence-gathering patrol workhorses, says the task force commander.
The U.S. Navy and Congress are grappling with the decision to equip ships with an Aegis combat system that lacks the ability to perform ballistic-missile defense.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.
After testing the waters with a crowdfunding campaign that garnered almost $14 million in pledges from thousands of individuals, startup XTI Aircraft has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert the expressions of interest into investments.
The compromise commercial-space law that received final congressional approval Monday night includes a provision that would-be space miners see as making it easier for them to raise funds and clear regulatory hurdles.
The U.S. Air Force’s first attempt at establishing a competition between launch upstart SpaceX and longtime monopoly player United Launch Alliance (ULA) has apparently fizzled before it started.
India’s GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 satellites—proposed to augment the country’s telecommunication, television services and in-orbit back-up system—will be launched in 2016 and 2017.
A group of nations led by the U.S. and Germany has submitted a proposal to the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) in Geneva to extend Ku- or Ka-band spectrum allocated for fixed-satellite services to unmanned aerial vehicles flying long-haul routes.
