Lockheed Martin is looking ahead to U.S. Air Force and Navy directed-energy weapons requirements as it begins manufacture of a 60-kW electric-fiber-laser system for a U.S. Army demonstration.
Despite carriers' continued utility, the U.S. Navy needs to revisit the way it develops and uses the nuclear-powered vessels and the convoys that protect them, the Hudson Institute says.
Sierra Nevada Space Systems will deliver its Dream Chaser engineering test article to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California around year’s end and plans to resume atmospheric drop testing in the first quarter of 2016.
The central theme of the hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure’s aviation subcommittee was the rapid rise in pilot reports of UAV sightings, particularly within airspace around airports.
Operational use of the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program spacecraft marks a major expansion in the U.S. Air Force’s ability to spy on other satellites in orbit.
Wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) is to be used for airborne security at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, in what could be the first international use of technology first fielded by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A confirmed Israeli launch contract for a “rideshare” launch to the Moon has met the criteria for an extension of the Google Lunar X-Prize deadline until the end of 2017, setting the stage for an international space race for the first private landing there.
Cygnus' next mission, which is set to launch in December on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, represents part of Orbital ATK’s return-to-flight operations following the loss of its Antares rocket on the Orb-3 resupply mission last October.
Lockheed and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are preparing to test a modified F-16 flight control computer that will enable older, analog Air National Guard Block 30 F-16s to be upgraded with automatic ground collision avoidance systems.
LONDON — Airbus Helicopters is urging the Japanese ministry of defense to re-consider its selection of Bell’s Model 412 for its UH-X utility helicopter program. &
The large amount of collected and stored data on the condition of Boeing F-18s and Lockheed Martin F-35s can make it difficult to properly assess any problems and fix them before the aircraft are needed again, says an engineer working on the problem.
Representatives from NASA and the agency’s International Space Station partners have agreed to a major update to a five-year-old universal docking system standard intended to nurture increased global and commercial cooperation—including crew rescue.
The FAA has proposed a $1.9 million civil penalty against SkyPan International for conducting 65 UAS flights between March 2012 and December 2014 in congested airspace over New York and Chicago.
The Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics suggests a “national security consideration” be formally introduced in Washington’s merger & acquisition review processes.
GSAT-6 was “successfully positioned in its orbital slot of 83 degrees east on Oct. 4, after carrying out four drift-arresting maneuvers,” a senior ISRO scientist says.
While all U.S. military services’ budgets would be affected by an extended budget resolution, the U.S. Navy faces even tougher challenges because of the way its shipbuilding and conversion (SCN) account for vessel programs is set up, defense analysts note.
