Like the rest of South Korea’s efforts at developing and building bombardment missiles, the underwater element is wrapped in secrecy that has been broken by only a few local news reports, not all consistent.
The U.S. Air Force has asked the Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx), to look into the art of the possible for controlling mass numbers of tiny UAS.
NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft emerged from several days in safe mode earlier this week and executed a maneuver to help set up its next close pass of the gas giant.
International Space Station crews may have been lucky so far, but the time has come for NASA and its partners to equip the six-person outpost with a specially configured ambulance, according to former U.S. astronaut Steve Robinson.
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps will lead the introduction of next-generation rotorcraft under the multi-service Future Vertical Lift (FVL) procurement with a placeholder initial operational capability date of 2030-32.
The U.S. Marine Corps is embarking on a development program for a large, multi-mission UAV to conduct strike and surveillance missions from the decks of its amphibious ships.
Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, is being awarded a $12,029,452 cost-plus-award-fee order against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement to provide engineering and management services ...
Lockheed Martin says the Pentagon’s $1 billion undefinitized cash injection into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in August to support Lot 9 production was not enough to offset expenditures in the third quarter.
NASA and Boeing kicked off negotiations this week on a contract for the Exploration Upper Stage designed to take the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) from a 70-ton lift capability to 105 tons on its second flight as early as 2021.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office's redacted ruling shows the U.S. Air Force was willing to accept some program risk in order to get a better upfront price.
A politically influential conference between the South Korean government and the strongest party in parliament has recommended a number of defense import purchases.
The Brazilian aircraft OEM has agreed to pay more than $205 million total to U.S. and Brazilian authorities over corruption charges connected with the sale of military aircraft.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS CO. has $92.8m U.S. Navy contract for Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) engineering services, interim logistics services, spares, associated material. Work complete by November 2018. UK DEFENSE MINISTRY will spend £265m ($324m) to boost cyber defenses.
The military aerostat market will see a compound annual growth rate of 4.8% through 2021, growing from $4.175 billion this year to $5.289 billion in five years, according to ASDReports. “Military aerostats have a long and storied past, however, they present a thoroughly modern option for governments wanting to secure a low-cost, high-tech option for intelligence gathering,” forecasters say.
Rockwell Collins’ offer to buy B/E Aerospace is a pricey ploy that will take more work to see to fruition, but it could secure the former as a leading provider of aircraft content while finding a successful exit for the latter.
