Alcoa, a major manufacturing provider to the aerospace and defense sector, issued disappointing results earlier this month and more interestingly cut back near-term forecasts for its A&D business. The company Nov. 1 will split in a plan to continue its A&D business under the new Arconic name while leaving its traditional aluminum and related work under the Alcoa brand. For the third quarter of 2016, Arconic segments reported revenue of $3.4 billion, off 1% year over year, although after-tax operating income of $267 million was up 4%.
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Repaired U.S. Air Force F-35As are beginning to fly again after the discovery of faulty insulation inside the fuel tanks grounded 15 operational jets in September.
The FAA has extended through October 2018 its ban on U.S. air carriers from operating in and flying over a large region of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The U.S. Air Force has kicked off a scientific advisory board study that will begin identifying key capabilities needed to fight in the battlespace of 2030.
Avic is presenting its new Cloud Shadow jet and a greatly expanded development of its Wing Loong propeller-driven series at the show, while China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) is displaying the CH-5, a jet-propelled follow-on to its established CH-4.
The first of Russia's upgraded Soyuz crew transports departed the International Space Station (ISS) late Oct. 29 and descended to Earth in remote Kazakhstan to end a 115 day assignment aboard the orbiting science laboratory for NASA's Kate Rubins, Russia's Anatoli Ivanishin and Japan's Takuya Onishi.
The surface-to-surface Atacms weapon will be adapted for strikes on vessels up to 186 mi. (300 km) off the coast, providing the U.S. Army with its first coastal defense weapon in decades.
The huge friction-stir-welded propellant tanks just coming off the new Space Launch System (SLS) production line in New Orleans could be a source of structure for future space habitats.
After a partial fleet grounding earlier this year over safety issues, the U.S. Air Force still has concerns about the quality of Northrop Grumman’s J-Stars maintenance work.
Helibras president Richard Marelli said the company was “working hard to convince the Brazilian army,” to let the company fit the Hforce generic weapon system to one of the army’s Fennecs.
The U.S. Marine Corps hopes to introduce its MUX multi-mission UAV well ahead of the common Sikorsky H-60/Bell Helicopter H-1 replacement it is pursuing under the Army-led Future Vertical Lift Capability Set 3 program.
The 13 CubeSat-class spacecraft set to ride piggyback on the first flight of NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System will serve as pathfinders for future unmanned missions into deep space on the big new rocket, including a Europa mission as early as 2022.
