Researchers from eight U.S. universities will pursue early stage advances in support of NASA space program technology needs that range from high temperature tolerant solar cells and enhanced thermal protection systems to food production.
“The Department of Defense (DOD) is taking several steps to develop guidance and training related to determining the reasonableness of prices,” GAO says in a report released earlier this month.
U.S. NAVY awarded $1.66b in contracts for C4I systems for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, possible other U.S. government and foreign military customers. M.C. DEAN, INC. has $853m multiple-award contract; HONEYWELL has $805m multiple-award contract; work on both to be complete February 2019.
Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited South Korea recently to meet with senior military and government leaders and reaffirm the U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea’s (ROK) enduring alliance as a cornerstone of Indo-Asia-Pacific regional stability, U.S. Navy officials say. During the two-day visit, Swift met with leaders from both the U.S. and the Republic of Korea, including U.S. Ambassador to the ROK Mark Lippert; Adm. Jung, Ho-sub, ROK chief of naval operations; Adm.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Aug. 22-23—Shoreham Airshow, Brighton City (Shoreham) Airport, West Sussex, www.shorehamairshow.co.uk/ Aug. 25-28—The 9th Asia Pacific Congress of Aerospace Medicine in Conjunction With The 10th Chinese Conference of Aerospace Medicine, Beijing, /www.apfama.org/2014/
A decade after DLR first unveiled the suborbital SpaceLiner concept, the German aerospace research agency is mapping out an ambitious development road map to help define mission goals and stimulate potential industry and government funding for a flying prototype.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has rescheduled the launch of its fifth resupply mission to the International Space Station for Aug. 19, following two previous delays blamed on heavy rains at Tanageshima Space Center.
Engineers at Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (Navsses) are creating a 3-D model of Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) dry dock from laser scans taken in June to create an advance-planning 3-D layout of the site and determine optimum placement of support services during future dry dockings.
Canada plans to test a small unmanned aircraft fitted with magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) sensors to see how well a UAV flying lower and slower than manned aircraft can detect submarines, mines and other metal objects beneath or on water.
While unmanned aircraft have received bad press for forcing firefighters to halt aerial operations when one is sighted, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are widely regarded as potentially powerful tools for fighting wildfires that are becoming increasingly destructive as urban development expands into unoccupied land.
Airbus Defense and Space has demonstrated its next-generation Sferion sensor, designed to assist helicopter pilots operating in degraded visual environments.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has completed another demonstration of using a high-flying U-2 spy aircraft to support a growing variety of missions and technologies compliant with the U.S. Air Force’s open mission systems (OMS) architecture-compliant standard.
“Launching aboard the more powerful Atlas 5 allows us to better support NASA’s ISS cargo needs with a full load of about 3,500 kg of pressurized cargo, consisting of essential supplies, equipment and science experiments,” says Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK’s space systems division.
Russia’s Progress 58 cargo capsule departed the International Space Station early Aug. 14, kicking off a month-long series of spacecraft comings and goings that will bring supplies and new crewmembers to the six-person orbiting science laboratory.
While the U.S. Marine Corps has kept to its plan for developing and buying its Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ator), there are still some potential problems, according to the Pentagon Inspector General (IG).
Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance has reached a cooperative agreement with NASA that will establish a commercial materials exposure lab outside the International Space Station, a facility being structured for clients well beyond the traditional military and civil aerospace communities.
