Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

F-35 program prices are improving, but there are still cost concerns as production ramps up, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report says.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
SpotterRF, a supplier of commercial radars for perimeter security, has announced a partnership to offer an integrated product to counter UAVs and is promising significantly lower cost than similar equipment already on the market.
Defense

As U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar met this week during the Pentagon chief’s visit to India, the two countries agreed to strengthen their military and industrial defense bonds.
Defense

PRATT & WHITNEY has $1b U.S. Navy contract modification for ninth lot of 66 F135 engines for...

At the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs April 13, SSC unveiled “SSC Infinity.

View the Space Launch, Defense and Recon and Counter-Space Spending chart in PDF format.

U.S. services’ plans to fly the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for longer than originally intended have pushed up ...

Astronauts can assemble observatories with apertures as large as 20 meters from large components delivered by the Space Launch System (SLS), according to Hubble servicing veteran John Grunsfeld.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The head of U.S. Air Force Space Command says it is true that the military would rather not carry the burden of helping anyone and everyone with collision avoidance and orbital analysis.
Space

Northrop Grumman is finalizing its XS-1 design, with a major review scheduled before work starts on preparing the Phase 2 proposal to Darpa.
Space

By Guy Norris
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has completed the qualification of the second stage of the Electron launch vehicle which will be lofted from a newly constructed site on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) acknowledges it faces a complex challenge as it strives to improve the quality and analysis as well as the timely acquisition and distribution of the environmental data it traditionally gathers and distributes to enhance weather forecasting by opening a door for the commercial sector.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Global cooperation will be required to launch an interstellar reconnaissance mission to the nearest solar system, using a powerful laser beam to propel tiny “nanocraft” to relativistic speeds. But the technology exists or is expected to be available within several years, according to Internet investor Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives program.
Space

By Jay Menon
In a major boost to the “Make in India” initiative, the U.S. on April 12 agreed to develop new partnerships in the pursuit of a range of cutting-edge projects, while India mulls two proposals from U.S. aerospace primes to bolster the country’s fighter production.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The European Space Agency's director general believes a “Moon Village," open to all, has a better chance of combining global resources for the more challenging and expensive push to Mars.
Space

2015 was record-breaking, with $2.7 billion available in investment and debt financing for space ventures.
Space

RAYTHEON, U.S. Air Force completed Configuration Item Qualification Test (CIQT) milestone for ...

Senate Armed Services lawmakers Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) have introduced a bill to accelerate the ...

View the U.S. Air Force and Navy Satellite Spending: FY15-FY17 chart in PDF format.

By Jen DiMascio
FAA’s Office Of Commercial Space Transportation is preparing to take on the mission of managing space traffic.
Space

Space-policy panelists at the annual Space Symposium here used the nascent satellite-servicing industry as an example of the problems that arise when technology outstrips government oversight and regulation.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon may have all the power it needs to stop major consolidation of its prime contractors it does not like, after all.
Defense

The U.S. Air Force says it will buy 38 of the systems to provide an “interim solution to counter potential emerging threats to government resources.”
Defense

The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth will make preparations to get underway from Singapore under its own power and transit to San Diego this summer for an extensive repair period after the ship’s combining gears were significantly damaged in January.
Defense

Planned to launch in 2020, MicroCarb is expected to be the first European mission dedicated solely to measuring CO2 levels
Space