Andalusia may be best known to most North Americans as a prime Spanish vacation destination, but increasingly, economic development officials want to make it the same for U.S. and Canadian aerospace manufacturers, too.
EPI has in-service support agreement with Malaysian government for the AIRBUS A400M military transport aircraft’s TP400 turboprop engines through October 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $33.7m U.S. Army contract for continued software development, training, maintenance of the Counter-Rocket, Artillery Mortar command and control system through March 31, 2018.
Convincing Congress to retire an aircraft is rarely easy, but the U.S. Air Force may fare better in its attempt to retire the F-15 in favor of the F-16 than it did with earlier efforts to retire the U-2 or A-10, according to former Air Force Secretary Whit Peters. The A-10 battle, Peters says, was complicated by what he describes as an “historic feeling that the Air Force never really supported close air support.” Unlike those fights, the Air Force has been able to reduce numbers of aircraft such as the C-5, Peters says.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts a total of 121 Western-designed C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance) aircraft will retire from 2017 to 2026.
Scientists assigned to NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft have quantified the red planet’s loss of atmosphere to the forces of the solar wind and radiation.
The head of U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) says he would consider any use of nuclear weapons against America and its allies by Russia, or any other nation, no matter the explosive yield, a strategic attack.
The chief executive of one of the West’s leading aerospace manufacturers and lessors, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, has a message for fellow aerospace, defense and aviation business leaders.
Development of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is complete, 16 years after program launch, says the Japanese defense ministry, declaring the type fit for service.
Malaysia is not ready to buy the Dassault Rafale, despite a renewed push by France to persuade the country to choose the fighter for a current requirement.
BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have won contracts for training and support of the UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters once the aircraft arrive in the UK in 2018.
Elon Musk achieved a major step toward his goal of lowering the cost of space launch March 30 with the successful relaunch and recovery of a “used” Falcon 9 first stage on a commercial orbital mission.
Heather Wilson said she expects the U.S. Air Force to evaluate the cost of restarting Lockheed Martin’s F-22 production line, and the effectiveness of the Raptor against emerging threats.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $32.8m U.S. Navy contract for software and product support for full-rate production Lot 5 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP. has $32.3m U.S. Navy contract for aircraft spares and manufacturing labor for U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K system demonstration test article.
Blue Originwill receive the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautic Association “for successfully demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle
North America Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information provider, will buy Earth imagery and info provider DigitalGlobe of Westminster, Colorado, for about $2.4 billion.
Two NASA astronauts finished configuration of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 outside the ISS’s U.S. segment Node-2 Harmony module during a spacewalk.
The USAF is trying to unshackle itself from the typical all-or-nothing way of buying stealth fighters and return to the glory days of the “Century Series.”
Airbus has dropped plans to produce the E-Fan family of electric light aircraft and instead is working on the larger and more powerful E-Fan X, which could fly within three years.
