Urban air mobility startup Volocopter has launched an unmanned cargo aircraft version of its Volocopter electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
The Missile Defense Agency has selected four companies to demo a prototype for a new space-based sensor optimized to detect and track maneuvering, hypersonic targets gliding or cruising within the atmosphere.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg defended the company’s handling of recently disclosed text messages and email exchanges between employees involved in the development of the 737 MAX before lawmakers on Capitol Hill Oct. 29.
The Japanese finance ministry is demanding private investment in the country’s Future Fighter program, in part to ensure contractors are fully incentivized to prevent failure.
The search for and processing of resources such as water ice and oxygen as well as scientific discovery are quickly emerging as key drivers in NASA’s accelerated human return to the Moon’s surface in 2024 and preparation for Mars.
Northrop Grumman has completed all hardware installation for the delayed B-2 defensive management system modernization upgrade on the initial test aircraft.
Sikorsky and Rheinmetall will build a logistics and fleet management center at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany if the CH-53K King Stallion is selected for the country’s STH heavy lift helicopter requirement.
The U.S. Air Force’s plan for acquiring future fighter aircraft may crimp the service’s ability to grow in the future, a study of the USAF’s force structure plans indicates.
This week Congress continues to try to hammer out annual appropriations, with the expiration of the current continuing resolution funding the U.S. government looming on Nov. 21.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $148.4m U.S. Navy contract for F-35B durability testing support for certification of variant to a minimum of 8,000 flight hours/30-year service life.
“This is a terrific endorsement and a transformational capital infusion which enables us to go full speed ahead towards our goals of commercial service and building additional spaceships,” Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides says.
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification worth more than $7 billion before finalizing a much larger bundle of contracts and agreements to buy more than 470 F-35s for delivery between 2020 and 2022, fulfilling the last three years of low-rate production.
Lockheed Martin has started talks about expanding the capability of a helicopter-borne radar decoy and jammer designed initially for defending U.S. Navy ships from missile attacks, the company says.
GE Aviation announced a teaming agreement Oct. 28 to provide its flight-control computing platform on the SuperVolo vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone designed for commercial applications.
U.S. Delta Force special operators and at least one dog were ferried by a mix of eight Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and Boeing H-47 Chinook helicopters to raid a compound housing the founder and leader of ISIS.
