The former Triumph Group aerostructures business recently acquired by private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has been rebranded Qarbon Aerospace and could be looking to acquire other assets in the embattled sector.
German aircraft responding to Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) missions will be able to operate in Polish airspace and vice-versa in an arrangement that mirrors a similar pact between the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
GE Aviation has completed initial test runs of the first full-scale XA100 three-stream adaptive combat engine, marking the start of a new chapter in U.S. military turbine engine development and paving the way for a new generation of variable cycle powerplants for sixth generation fighters.
Arqit, a four-year-old British startup aiming to provide quantum encryption for communications, announced May 12 it will become a publicly traded company after a two-step merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The startup did not identify the operator or its market sector, but the 40-aircraft order, plus an option for another 40, is “committed and in hand,” XTI CEO Bob LaBelle said.
Textron will not immediately enter the urban air mobility market, despite its “enormous amount of technological capability,” as the battery technology has not advanced enough to support it, Textron’s top executive says.
Tim Conver, who took over the then-spunky UAV pioneer AeroVironment in the early 1990s, will retire as chairman at the company’s 2021 annual shareholder meeting.
NASA’s Artemis initiative, poised to resume human exploration of the Moon and pave the way for expeditions to Mars, is already paying economic dividends across the U.S., those preparing for the Artemis I launch say.
Over the last four months, the U.S. Air Force’s aging C-5M Super Galaxy daily flight rate hovered around 20%, according to exclusive data provided to Aerospace DAILY.
Gen. Charles Brown singled out the Advanced Battle Management System as a top priority for research and development funding, but the program has become a punching bag for Congress.
Startup Aergility is working with an unidentified strategic partner to develop a vertical-takeoff unmanned cargo aircraft using its “managed autorotation” technology to increase range and payload.
Lift Aircraft has completed its first six production Hexa single-person multicopters, including an aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force for flight testing.
The U.S. Space Force intends to establish a commercial solutions office at Space Systems Command to better leverage industry’s work in satellite communications and tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Anthony Brown (D-Md.) said he believes the fiscal 2022 defense policy bill will not pass the full House until after the August recess.
The U.S. Space Force recently declassified a new developmental program, the Ground Moving Target Indicator space-based system, envisioned to replace a portion of the aging E-8C Joint Surveillance and Attack Radar System’s sensing capability.
As it seeks strategic investors to set up operations in Canada, Jaunt Air Mobility has added to the list of suppliers working on the startup’s Journey electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
The Australia Department of Defense has revealed plans to upgrade its Aegis-equipped, Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyer and is also preparing to introduce its new Gulfstream MC-55A Peregrine long-range intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft.
With the U.S. Army looking to maintain the capability of its legacy helicopter fleet even as it moves to modernize the force with advanced rotorcraft, continued progress with a new engine program is becoming crucial to its plans.
The U.S. Space Force released three requests for prototype proposals to industry, laying the groundwork for a competition for the next set of national security space launches.
Rocket Lab is poised to conduct the first of two additional tests of Electron launch vehicles specially modified for reusability which, if successful, could pave the way for the first mid-air recovery of a booster for re-use as early as next year.
