Digirad Corp., Poway, California, has been awarded a maximum $100,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for computed tomography imaging equipment devices.
Kratos Defense is calling on engine manufacturers to develop inexpensive, limited-life powerplants for a new generation of low-cost unmanned combat aircraft and cruise missiles.
The total cost to procure Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has risen by nearly seven percentage points compared to last year, largely because the U.S. government opted to buy aircraft at a slower rate, according to the Pentagon’s most recent estimate.
The company will not comment on specific prospects or national requirements, but the scheduled stops of the aircraft indicate where Airbus expects it has chances of making sales: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea.
Service officials who led the recent Air Superiority 2030 study on future fighters say the next air superiority jet the Air Force buys will need to balance stealth against other attributes.
The Thai cabinet has approved the purchase of an additional eight Korean Aerospace (KAI) T-50 jet trainers that will supplement four ordered two years ago.
In the search for the root cause of a recent spike in hypoxia-like cockpit incidents, the U.S. Navy is beginning to look more closely at the quality of the air that comes off the T-45 Goshawk’s engine and feeds into the oxygen generator system.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $34.5m U.S. Navy contract to incorporate flight management system into E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Work complete September 2020. ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES and KALYANI STRATEGIC SYSTEMS signed agreement to expand joint venture focusing on air defense systems and lightweight special purpose munitions for India.
The U.S. Air Force is deciding whether to compete production of the next tranche of GPS III satellites, but the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) indicates it would prefer the service stick with Lockheed Martin, which is currently producing the first 10 spacecraft. Lockheed is trying to hang on to production of GPS, while Boeing and Northrop Grumman are trying to gain a foothold. The defense spending bill for fiscal 2018 passed by the HAC says the “least technologically risky and most cost-effective approach” is to stick with Lockheed.
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Combinations of soil-borne chemistry and ultraviolet radiation from the Sun could be significant barriers to Martian organic activity and habitability, researchers’ findings show.
Airbus and Veritas Capital Fund Management, the owners of StandardAero, have started negotiating a possible sale of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm Vector Aerospace.
“Malabar-17 will be another milestone with the participation of 16 ships, two submarines and more than 95 aircraft,” an Indian defense ministry spokesman says.
The British High Court has rejected claims by a campaign group that the British government was acting unlawfully by selling defense equipment to Saudi Arabia.
Aviation regulators in Norway and UK have announced plans to lift the restrictions placed on operators of the Airbus H225 and AS332L2 Super Puma helicopters after the loss of a Norwegian helicopter last April.
A convention aimed at banning and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons has been formally adopted by the United Nations, absent support from any of the nine nations that possess nuclear arms.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on July 6 vowed to place and keep the U.S. at the pinnacle of human space exploration with a return to the Moon and a pledge to “put American boots on the face of Mars.”
