The U.S. Navy is creating an unmanned maritime autonomy architecture to provide overarching standards for platforms so that there are not multiple conflicting systems.
In the quest to provide commercial suborbital spaceflight services to paying passengers, Blue Origin’s New Shepard has one clear advantage over Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, notes Blue founder Jeff Bezos: It flies higher, rendering moot a debate about the boundary of space.
The Pentagon has launched a commercial solutions opening program seeking proposals for innovative technologies to accelerate asymmetric defense capabilities.
Russian Helicopters Holding Company, a part of State Corporation Rostec, has signed a series of agreements with Indian companies to help make the Kamov Ka-226T in India.
NASA has selected sites in Nevada and Texas for the final phase of a four-year series of technical demonstrations to confirm the safety and effectiveness of the agency’s UAS traffic management system for drone traffic in urban areas.
Airbus’ plans to ramp up production of its new H160 medium twin-engine helicopter could be impacted by the continued weakness in the oil and gas market.
Vietnam is to acquire Insitu ScanEagle surveillance drones, Textron T-6 Texan II trainers and a coast guard cutter from the U.S, according to the top American military officer in the Indo-Pacific region.
A day before the Aero India Show 2019, two Indian Air Force Hawks of the Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team collided in midair Feb. 19 while rehearsing near the Yelahanka airbase in Bengaluru.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, has been awarded a $211,996,197 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-18-C-5105 for incorporation of remaining Baseline J7 scope for new-construction DDG Aegis Weapon System J7 Baseline development and integration in support of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).
A Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney JV filed a protest with the GAO Feb. 19 concerning the U.S. Army’s decision to award GE a $517 million contract for the service’s Improved Turbine Engine Program.
Western aerospace providers are continuing to build up their Indian facilities, with Thales and Magellan Aerospace announcing they opened new sites in Bengaluru.
British defense supplier Cobham will give Boeing the equivalent of $111 million to settle a dispute over problematic parts provided for the USAF KC-46A.
