Debate continues in Congress about whether the U.S. Navy is following the right course in buying the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and follow-on frigates based on modified LCS designs.
The Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.
Boeing officials are shifting their attention to a second round of fuel dock testing with the first KC-46 aerial refueler following successful initial airworthiness certification for the aircraft outfitted with its wing-mounted pods and centerline refueling boom.
RAYTHEON completed Preliminary Design Review for Next Generation Jammer, which will replace ALQ-99 jamming pods on U.S. NAVY EA-18G Growlers; IOC planned for 2021.
The U.S. Army has conducted its first-ever intercept of a cruise missile target using the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system with target tracks from a non-PAC-3 radar. This marks a step forward in integrating U.S. missile defenses, a key goal for protecting deployed forces from attack. During a Nov. 12 flight test, a MQM-107 drone, emulating a cruise missile, flew a low-trajectory path, keeping it under the Patriot radar’s field of view. Two remote Sentinel radars, however, created a composite track of the threat.
In a bid to “push the envelope” on the use of additive manufacturing in unmanned aircraft, Stratasys and UAV developer Aurora Flight Sciences have built and flown what they say is the first 3D-printed jet aircraft.
As it continues to explore a unique tailless flying-wing design that promises lower drag, NASA Armstrong Research Center has flown the third iteration of its Prandtl-D configuration.
Gyana Ltd. CEO and founder Joyeeta Das has visions of crunching imagery regularly gathered by new constellations of small satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles with data gathered from social media as real-estate investment and urban-planning tools.
“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
PARIS—France has begun delivering on a promise to increase air strikes on militant targets in Syria, and plans to deploy the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Gulf next month, tripling its air strike capability in the region.
While the overall price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class replacement submarine fleet raises some eyebrows, it is the cost of each vessel that will go a long way.
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering as the first awardee under its program to mature rocket system propulsion technology in pursuit of a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 used for the Atlas V launch vehicle.
Studies over Greenland reveal the warming atmosphere and ocean around it are hastening the rate at which the massive glaciers covering the landmass are melting.
Cameras aboard the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft are tracking a slow but impressive transition from fall to winter at the south pole of the moon Titan.
Airbus Helicopters has begun flight tests of its kerosene-fueled High Compression Engine H120 helicopter developed under the European Clean Skies initiative.
Research and development organization Mitre has launched a prize challenge to help solve the problem of countering unauthorized small unmanned aircraft.
The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 757 USS Alexandria arrived in its new homeport at Naval Base Point Loma in California from the East Coast after undergoing its regularly scheduled engineered overhaul at what the U.S. Navy called record speed.
