The proposal based on the Defiant X concept offers a “low-risk, transformational capability that delivers on an Army critical modernization priority,” according to a joint statement released by the companies.
GE said Sept. 7 that it has begun tests of a second, full-scale, flight-weight XA100 three-stream adaptive combat engine, following evaluation of the first prototype earlier this year.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have joined several existing venture capital backers in a new $10 million fundraising round at on-orbit refueling and resupply startup Orbit Fab, the San Francisco company announced Sept. 7.
TransDigm Group is walking away from its preliminary $11 billion offer for Meggitt, leaving the latter to be acquired by Parker-Hannifin as agreed to in early August.
Communications & Power Industries, the space and defense technology roll up owned by Odyssey Investment Partners, will acquire Essco, which designs and manufactures specialty radomes and composite structures, from L3Harris Technologies.
A U.S. Air Force news release on Sept. 1 announced a puzzling claim: three Boeing F-15Es had released newly modified, 2,000-lb. GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions on moving ships.
Inspiration4, the first all-civilian astronaut crew to orbit the Earth, will be doing a lot more than gazing out the windows of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
South Korea has successfully test fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile from its newly commissioned diesel electric submarine, making it the first non-nuclear state to possess such a capability.
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a full-scale demonstrator concept that would use active flow control technology.
As NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission team worked to verify the successful collection of the large rover’s first sample of rock from the red planet, the rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter drone took flight over the Labor Day weekend for the 13th time.
Jean-Brice Dumont, the newly appointed head of Airbus Military Aircraft, said several other sales campaigns for the four-engined airlifter were not far from conclusion.
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov carried out the first of a potential 11 spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 3 to prepare the recently arrived Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for future operations.
While the House Armed Services Committee in its $778 billion version of the 2022 defense bill, allows the U.S. Air Force to go ahead with its planned cuts to the A-10 fleet, the committee presses the service to upgrade the attack aircraft with modern defensive systems that both the Air National Guard and Reserve have requested.
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2022 defense policy bill further reduces the U.S. Air Force’s C-130 fleet, with a member targeting aircraft in his own district as the Guard has pressed to keep more of the aircraft.
