The nation’s planetary defense forces that are set to deal with a possible asteroid or comet impact plan to assess still-emerging global efforts to detect, characterize and potentially deflect a threat by observing the close approach of an actual asteroid.
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to solicit industry for development of an air-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon, the service for the first time is outlining its approach to operationalizing high-speed capability for a wide range of roles.
Japan’s first privately developed launch vehicle, the Momo suborbital sounding rocket, was launched by Interstellar Technologies on July 30, but the flight was terminated shortly after liftoff.
GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.
The Pentagon expects to definitize the contract for the latest tranche of low-rate initial production F-35s by the end of the year, along with one for F135 engines made by Pratt & Whitney.
Sikorsky is to refurbish former U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters for firefighting and disaster relief in Australia in the first deal of its kind, the Lockheed Martin company says.
In the wake of Pyongyang's second successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested Thaad against an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile target.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $119.7m U.S. Navy contract for design, development, testing, reverse engineering, and other engineering support of Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems program. Work complete September 2018. LEONARDO has NORWEGIAN POLICE DIRECTORATE contract of undisclosed amount for three AW169 helicopters and 10-year maintenance package.
Raytheon chief executive Tom Kennedy said July 27 his company has no plans to pursue an initial public offering of stock for its Forcepoint cybersecurity joint venture. Raytheon paid $1.9 billion for a majority stake in the then-Websense business in 2015. Kennedy reminded financial analysts in the latest quarterly teleconference that Raytheon made the deal as a long-term play in cyber capabilities.
Capt. Jeff Haney was flying over Alaska in late 2010 when an engine bleed-air malfunction on his F-22 Raptor caused the control system to shut off oxygen flow to his mask.
It may be just business, but already the CEOs of major aerospace equipment makers are sending warning shots to each other as manufacturers increasingly look to capitalize on the aftermarket.
Demonstrations of the U.S. Navy’s electromagnetic railgun are ramping up at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s new railgun Rep-Rate Test Site at Terminal Range.
Seventeen days after a mishap that killed 16 Marines and sailors, the U.S. Marine Corps is grounding its fleet of 12 KC-130T aircraft out of an abundance of caution.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says he supports the diplomatic and economic pressure being applied to North Korea by the White House and State Department, but “time is running out” before Kim Jong-un has an operational system capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
