United Technologies (UTC) has placed a new person at the helm of Sikorsky as it prepares to potentially spin off or sell off the helicopter manufacturer.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh says he hopes to “keep common sense in the discussion” as the service appeals to Congress for relief from a law limiting the use of RD-180 Atlas V rocket engines, potentially crippling access to spacelift for the Pentagon.
As the U.S. Navy continues to work on the proposal request for its new fleet of frigates (FF), the service is keeping the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) line running with recent contract awards
The U.S. Navy Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) recently conducted a one-week Vertical Launch System (VLS) Self-Assessment and Groom Training (SAGT) pilot course aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 61 USS Ramage.
The chiefs of staff of the military services have sent Congress their annual “unfunded requirements” lists, and for fiscal 2016, the Navy’s list is heavy on requests for new aircraft.
Human exploration planners at NASA have selected 12 projects the U.S. space agency will pursue with public- and private-sector funds to advance some of the technologies that will be needed to move astronauts beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).
U.S. Air Force officials predict up to $1.15 billion in savings over 10 years with the new, consolidated launch range contract won late last year by a Raytheon/General Dynamics joint venture.
The Russian defense ministry has confirmed that the naval version of the Ka-52 coaxial attack helicopter has begun factory trials, despite uncertainty with delivery of the French-made Mistral-class landing docks on which the aircraft initially was to be based.
If the U.S. really wants to develop much stronger, meaningful and lasting relationships with China, then American officials will have to show a little respect, says Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state.
Airbus Defense & Space has chosen Kurt Rossner to lead the A400M airlifter program following the reorganization of the management team announced at the end of January.
NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Directorate has agreed to address a dozen corrective recommendations raised by the agency’s Inspector General with regard to upgrade needs and increased security for the Deep Space Network, a 52-year-old global assembly of transmitters and receivers for communications with and navigation of distant planetary spacecraft.
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding unit recently received a $604.3 million contract modification to fund construction of the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer DDG 121 for the U.S. Navy.
