Northrop Grumman Corp. has selected French defense electronics group Thales to supply flight management system (FMS) software to an avionics mission equipment package that will upgrade the U.S. Army’s UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters.
Russia’s involvement in Ukraine is adding urgency to Eastern European nations’ plans to re-equip their helicopter fleets with Western aircraft because of growing concerns about the supply of parts to keep their Soviet-era equipment flying.
With the FAA having missed another internal deadline to promulgate proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS), legislation has been introduced in Congress to force the agency to relax restrictions on research into civil UAS.
The U.S. Navy remains confident in the further development of its Aegis combat system and air and missile defense radar, despite testing concerns raised by the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation.
Fort Worth got underway from Singapore on Feb. 2 after completing its first six-day scheduled preventive maintenance period during an initial 16-month rotational deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region
In case anyone is still wondering, Boeing’s work with Russia’s VSMPO-Avisma for titanium supplies remains unchanged and robust, despite Western sanctions elsewhere due to the conflict in Ukraine.
Development of unmanned systems to help manned platforms survive in high-threat environments is a key feature of new programs previewed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in its fiscal 2016 budget request.
Details of the incident, believed to have involved an Air Force F-16 operating from Jordan during a air-to-surface attack last Nov. 10, remain unconfirmed.
The Guimbal Cabri G2, a piston-engine light helicopter designed by former Airbus Helicopters engineer Bruno Guimbal, was awarded certification on Feb. 3 after a 16-month program.
After playing pingpong with Congress over how best to overhaul the nation’s cruiser fleet, the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2016 budget request includes a revamped schedule for ship work.
With the U.S. Navy seeing more certainty that it will now be able to fund the overhaul work of the CVN 73 USS George Washington, the service is getting ready to plan and award contracts for the job.
In fiscal 2016 budget documents, the U.S. Air Force notes a plan to start funding in fiscal 2018 for modifications to the selected T-X trainer replacement to enable it to operate in the traditional aggressor role during live-fly training for fighter pilots.
Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin have each scaled back work on developing their own company-funded designs for the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (Uclass) aircraft.
NASA’s proposed $18.5 billion budget for fiscal 2016 and its long-range vision of delivering human explorers to the Martian surface bodes especially well for the agency’s Johnson Space Center.
Saudi Arabia is the first export customer for the MBDA Meteor missile, having signed a contract worth more than $1 billion for the weapon, according to French media.
