Publicly traded shares of aerospace and defense companies around most of the Western world ended 2019 about 34% above where they began a year ago, and 6% better off than major stock market indices, Wall Street analysts said in year-end reports.
The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.
Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.
A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 18,631 new, western-developed engines will be delivered for new military aircraft or as part of re-engining processes.
The U.S. Army has outlined its vision of a mission system architecture for its Future Vertical Lift platforms that will allow upgrades to be fielded rapidly to counter emerging threats and overcome obsolescence over their life cycle.
