Robert Cabana, director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, was presented with the 2015 National Space Trophy for career contributions to the U.S. space program in April 24 ceremonies hosted by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 74 USS McFaul departed Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, earlier this month for an independent deployment in support of ballistic missile defense (BMD), maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 4th, 5th, and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility, U.S. Navy officials say.
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STRATEGIC DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE predicts Asia-Pacific will be largest military helo market, with compound annual growth rate of 3.1% over the next decade (driven by arms races, replacement needs) and making more than a third of the global market by 2025; North American market is forecast to decline in 2016-18 from sequestration spending caps.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye is backing a campaign by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to sell 24 FA-50 attack aircraft to Peru. Park and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala discussed details of the possible deal during the South Korean president’s visit to Lima this month, the Korea Times reports. KAI already has taken an order for 16 KT-1 turboprop trainers for Peru, which is assembling the aircraft from parts sent from South Korea. The country has been a target for the FA-50 sales effort for more than a year.
NASA’s newly announced Nexus for Exoplanet System Science seeks to establish a foundation for future space and terrestrially-based observatories with capabilities to assess the environments of distant exo-planets for evidence of life.
The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces’ markup of the Defense Department’s fiscal 2016 authorization bill looks to bolster U.S. Naval forces across the board.
Swedish defense manufacturer Saab says technical issues plaguing the Gripen JAS 39 fighter have not had a serious impact on the combat jet’s capability.
The Defense Department (DOD) has issued more than three-quarters of its final and interim Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rules thus far this decade without prior notice and comment before they became effective, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has boosted its unmanned systems capability with the acquisition of privately held Kutta Technologies, a specialist in command-and-control systems for unmanned aircraft.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a Stanford University audience in the valley that the time had come for the technology sector and the military to “renew the bonds of trust” and mutual benefit.
U.S. Navy officials have no plans to continue autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) tests for the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) following the historic April 22 demonstration of the Pentagon’s first-ever UAV in-flight refueling.
Italy’s financial police have raided the homes of former AgustaWestland executives over allegations of corruption in a deal to sell helicopters to the Algerian government.
The company has responded to an Office of Naval Research (ONR) solicitation for a 150-kw laser weapon suitable for installation on DDG 51-class destroyers to counter unmanned aircraft and small boats using only ship power and cooling.
U.S. and Russian flight control teams for the International Space Station coordinated an orbital debris avoidance maneuver early April 23 as a precautionary measure to avoid a close pass from a fragment associated with an obsolete Russian weather satellite.
