Not only do recent U.S. Navy shipboard laser tests show the technology’s potential, but they provide a glimpse of the equipment for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), says Robert Afza, a senior fellow at Lockheed Martin specializing in directed energy.
While Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has contracts in hand and the U.S. Navy has funds requested in its fiscal 2016 spending plan for the refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) of CVN 73 USS George Washington, the fight to finish the job is far from over, HII President and CEO Michael Petters says.
RAYTHEON has $15.5m U.S. Navy contract to develop flexible application-based architecture (ABA) for P-8A to handle third-party software. AIRBUS GROUP is negotiating to sell CIMPA (PLM services) to SOPRA STERIA to refocus on core aeronautical activities.
Results from the first spaceflight test of NASA’s Orion crew capsule will drive the design of the production version of the vehicle that prime contractor Lockheed Martin hopes to build through the 2020s and beyond.
NASA is evaluating a new spacesuit issue as it prepares to embark on a series of seven spacewalks this year that are intended to prepare docking ports aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory for the arrival of the first U.S. commercial crew vehicles by late 2017.
Plans to keep the U.S. Navy Trident D5 sea-launched ballistic missile supportable and effective beyond the 2060s include an updated navigation system and a more flexible warhead interface.
Development of the W80-4 Life Extension Program warhead, a modernized version of the current ALCM design, has been accelerated in the 2016 budget, alongside that of the LRSO itself, to reverse a two-year slippage that was included in the fiscal 2014 budget.
The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame has set May 30 for the induction of former NASA astronauts John Grunsfeld, Steven Lindsey, Kent Rominger and Rhea Seddon.
The U.S. Air Force is lagging in its ability to find and identify “high-end” targets, an erosion that has taken place during the past 15 years of combat operations in permissive airspace, says Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
Eurojet is working with both prospective bidders for South Korea’s KF-X program, as the industry prepares responses to a second call for offers due this month.
When deliveries are completed, the Russian firm will have delivered 222 kits to the state-owned airframer, which builds the Su-30MKI under license at its Nashik factory.
The Human Injury and Treatment (HIT) model provides a comprehensive capability to forecast casualties potentially encountered during combat operations aboard ships.
Anchored by new developments in sonar imaging, undersea mapping and other technology, the U.S. Navy once again led the U.S. government pack for patents in a 2014 ranking.
GENERAL DYNAMICS has $49.7m U.S. Army contract to upgrade M1A1 tanks to M1A2 Systems Enhancement Package (SEP) V2 configuration, which adds color displays, day/night thermal sights, Thermal Management System (TMS), and tank-infantry phone. MBDA test fired the MMP missile Feb. 12 at the French Procurement Agency DGA Techniques Terrestres site in Bourges central France, against a steel target at intermediate range, in “fire and forget” mode using missile seeker’s color TV channel.
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) plan to field a new rocket engine with Blue Origin called the BE-4 is only step one of a larger strategic plan to take the company from a sole-source benefactor mentality to competing in a burgeoning commercial market.
NovaWurks has already booked a Sun-synchronous mission on a Spaceflight Inc. Sherpa rideshare platform for the third quarter of this year to demonstrate its Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) concept for the Phoenix program.
The automated docking unfolded at 11:57 a.m. EST, as the unpiloted Russian freighter and the six-person ISS orbited 257 mi. above the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Puerto Rico.
More than six years in the making, the FAA’s proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft cannot be finalized fast enough for those on either side of the argument over UAS in civil airspace.
Most of them are younger than 35 years of age, more than a third of the 100 candidates currently live in the U.S. and all but 21 hold at least a bachelor’s degree.
