The transition is coming as the Army has secured funding for the 3,000-shp future helicopter engine program, from fiscal 2016 and beyond despite ongoing defense budget pressure.
The U.S. Air Force has released the initial request for information (RFI) for a replacement for its T-38 trainer, the T-X Advanced Pilot Training Family of Systems (ATP FoS).
The Australian army’s Tiger helicopters, still not fully operational for service more than 10 years after the first aircraft were delivered, are on track to meet a key availability target next year, manufacturer Airbus says.
The need and obstacles in continuing the U.S. rebalance to what the nation’s maritime services now call the Indo-Asia-Pacific region are highlighted in the service’s “Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready,” released earlier this month.
The vision impairment was outlined in the American Academy of Ophthalmology in late 2011 and experienced by two-thirds of astronauts assigned to the International Space Station.
The proposed price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) is now about $4.1 billion, compared to about $4.8 billion a year ago, according to the recently released annual U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on Pentagon program spending.
Boeing and Saab are targeting the jointly developed ground-launched Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) at Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) operators that are demilitarizing their M26 artillery rockets to comply with the Olso Convention on cluster munitions.
The U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 706 USS Albuquerque partnered with the Australian navy earlier this month to strengthen its warfare capabilities through the annual joint exercise Lungfish 2015, U.S. Navy officials say.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will use folding wings and a pressurized/unpressurized “cargo trailer” with the Dream Chaser Cargo System it has entered in NASA’s second-round competition for unmanned vehicles to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
Russia plans to test its Angara rocket in 2016 with a real payload. The heavy lifter is scheduled to enter service in 2021 and replace the Proton launcher in 2025.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will use folding wings and a pressurized/unpressurized “cargo trailer” with the Dream Chaser Cargo System it has entered in NASA’s second-round competition for unmanned vehicles to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
The top U.S. Air Force officer overseeing the service’s KC-46A refueling aircraft contract is casting doubt on whether prime contractor Boeing will achieve its new first flight date for the first tanker in April.
NASA has not completely given up on extending the long-running missions of the Opportunity Mars rover and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for another year.
Europe’s Vega light launcher has scored its first U.S. customer with a contract to launch a tranche of small, high-resolution remote-sensing satellites under Google’s Skybox Imaging initiative.
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work is pushing initiatives to conduct more wargames and demonstrations to better use military technology fielded today, and make more informed decisions on what technology to pursue in the future.
Over the past year, the overall size of the Pentagon’s major defense acquisition program portfolio decreased, from 80 programs to 78, while the estimated cost has decreased by $7.6 billion, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
Company president Gwynne Shotwell says she expects the U.S. Air Force to certify the Falcon 9 by midyear, “if not sooner,” to fly midsized national security payloads.
The head of missile manufacturer MBDA, Antoine Bouvier, says the apparent failure of its Brimstone weapon to find a home in the U.S. arsenal begs questions about the accessibility of the U.S. market to foreign manufacturers.
GKN Aerospace has partnered with Swedish firm Arcam to work on industrializing the electron beam melting (EBM) method of additive manufacturing for its potential use in the production of aerospace components.
Satellite Internet startup LeoSat has contracted with manufacturer Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy to conduct a one-year cost study of the company’s planned low Earth orbiting (LEO) constellation of high-throughput broadband satellites.
NEW DELHI—India’s state-run space agency has proposed launching 10 satellites annually starting this year, setting an ambitious goal toward expanding the country’s space exploration program. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is currently launching four or five satellites every year. Most of them are for domestic use. The “idea is to develop our space program” with the annual launching of at least 10 satellites, says S.K. Shivakumar, director of the ISRO Satellite Center in Bengaluru in south India.
