The inability to send aloft about two-thirds of the U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets does not represent a concern across all services, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
The largest-ever deployment of F-22 Raptors to Europe by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has been completed with the departure of the aircraft back to the U.S. on May 9.
A group of regulators, air navigation service providers (ANSP), manufacturers and operators is being formed to draft a global interoperability blueprint for UAV traffic management (UTM).
While the U.S. Navy has made some progress in bridging the production gap between the current LPD amphibious-ship line and the future LXR amphib ship model, shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries still has concerns.
Orbital ATK and NASA have completed the installation of the world’s largest solid-rocket motor in its Utah test stand in preparation for a June 28 static-fire test supporting NASA’s Space Launch System.
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BOEING, LOCKHEED MARTIN and NORTHROP GRUMMAN have Global Positioning System III Phase 1 Production Readiness Feasibility Assessment contracts, each worth $5m with two $500K options. DRAPER LABORATORY is expanding Huntsville, AL, business operations to increase collaboration with U.S. Army to help address threats like GPS interference. ANTONOV and RELIANCE DEFENSE LTD. have partnered to bid for HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED tender for production of AN-148, AN-158, AN-178 for India.
NASA has released 56 formerly patented technologies into the public domain for unrestricted commercial use, and launched a searchable database that catalogs thousands of older expired NASA patents. The technologies include advanced manufacturing processes, sensors, propulsion methods, rocket nozzles, thrusters, aircraft wing designs and improved rocket safety and performance concepts, according to NASA.
Following flight testing of a stability fix, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has declared complete the development of mission-system software required for U.S. Air Force initial operational capability (IOC).
The P-8A Poseidon has started air-to-air refueling testing and is on course to test its multi-static active coherent (MAC) anti-sub search system and High Altitude ASW (antisubmarine warfare) Weapons Concept (Haawc) Mk 54 torpedo and high altitude (ASW) sensor upgrades.
Boeing subsidiary Insitu — best known for its widely used ScanEagle military UAV — has established a commercial business unit offering aircraft, payloads, UAV control and data management software, as well as operators and analysts.
Portugal’s Tekever has introduced an automatic vessel detection, classification and tracking capability for its AR3 and AR4 shipborne small UAVs to increase their effectiveness in maritime missions.
India’s navy will phase out its Sea Harrier fighter aircraft fleet this week, making way for a new generation of advanced fighters and marking a significant shift in the history of the country’s naval aviation.
A team of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists have concluded a month-long sea-ice research expedition recently as part of the Navy’s 2016 Ice Exercise (ICEX) to better understand the physics and evolution of sea-ice with age.
The complex, $1.9 billion engineering services contract strategy employed by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has challenged efforts by facility managers to provide cost-effective oversight, according to the NASA IG.
The International Space Station partnership named a half dozen U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts and cosmonauts to missions aboard the six person orbiting laboratory scheduled to launch in late 2017.
Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is set to deploy on a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship as part of a second round of testing that could eventually see the Norwegian-made weapon become the standard anti-ship missile for the vessels.
Perhaps it is time to consider a rocket defense as part of an overall strategy for lowering the hazards to operational satellites posed by growing levels of orbital debris, says Darren McKnight, the technical director for Integrity Applications, Inc.
SpaceX orbited the JCSat-14 commercial communications satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket on May 6, after which it successfully returned the vehicle’s first stage booster to an upright landing on an ocean barge off the eastern coast of Florida.
Challenges remain as Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) gets ready to test the new aircraft carrier CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford, but work on the follow-on new-class carrier, the John F. Kennedy, is meeting schedules, the company says.
