“My estimation is the program will not be ready to begin IOT&E until mid calendar year 2018,” Pentagon testing chief Michael Gilmore told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.
The facility, to be fully owned and funded by Airbus Group India, will be the main center supporting India’s need for new Airbus pilots, says Srinivasan Dwarakanath, president of Airbus in India.
Enigmatic Ceres, the largest main belt asteroid that was long ago robbed of full planet status by Jupiter’s powerful gravitational forces, is giving up its secrets to a grateful NASA Dawn mission team more than two centuries after its discovery.
Canada is to develop a new defense strategy and, in its first budget since being elected in October 2015, the Liberal government has postponed planned purchases including new fighters and warships, arguing the procurements are not ready to proceed.
Though the secretaries of the Navy and Air Force have called for faster approval of foreign military sales, the State Department official in charge of approving them does not see the process as slow.
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus unmanned cargo spacecraft is on its way to a scheduled March 26 arrival at the International Space Station (ISS), following its launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral late March 22.
The Philippines defense ministry has chosen the Finmeccanica Helicopters AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat to meet a requirement for an anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
Recent amphibious drills involving the U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) navies in the Asia-Pacific region have helped the U.S. develop and practice sophisticated joint aviation operations, says Rear Adm. John Nowell, commander of U.S. Expeditionary Strike Group Seven.
India’s state-run defense aircraft-maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) has announced plans to manufacture and operate two Dornier Do-228 aircraft, marking a foray into the civil aviation sector.
The two explosions in Brussels Airport (BRU) on the morning of March 22 and the explosion in a subway station near the EU institutions were the work of terrorists, Belgian officials said.
Russia continues to renew its military arsenals, albeit at a slower pace in 2015 than the prior year and as weakening currency is constraining its purchasing power.
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump is conducting "a very dangerous discussion" on trade that must be addressed, former Boeing CEO and Chairman Jim McNerney says.
Perhaps in a different era, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft may have spotted liquid nitrogen flowing on distant Pluto, a distinctive planetary realm so far from the Sun that temperatures now measure minus 400 F, according to modeling of the latest data transmissions.
The U.S. Navy concluded a successful light-off test of its upgraded periscope detection and discrimination (PDD) capability earlier this month for the AN/SPQ-9B Anti-Ship Missile Defense Radar onboard guided-missile cruiser CG 57 USS Lake Champlain.
India is working to develop a sensor to gauge radiation levels after a nuclear accident, making a significant step toward ensuring the safety of the country’s nuclear installations.
To accelerate the development of future lasers, the U.S. Air Force is investing in manufacturing technology that enables new lasing materials to be produced from nanopowders. Under a small-business research effort administered by the U.S Army, Georgia-based nanomaterials company nGimat developed processes to produce yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) power from which laser amplifiers are made. Unable to fund the development internally, nGimat approached the Air Force, which is providing funding help to transition the materials to laser weapon systems and missile seeker domes.
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. has $121.5m U.S. Marine Corps contract to build 13 prototypes for Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) of Amphibious Combat Vehicle Phase 1, Increment 1 (ACV 1.1). Award follows GAO denial of GENERAL DYNAMICS protest of awards to SAIC, BAE SYSTEMS. MBDA reported €5.2b ($5.9b) in sales for 2015, driven by Rafale and Fremm frigate contracts signed by Egypt and Qatar. New export orders were €3.6b, revenue reached €2.9b, up from €2.4b in 2014.
Portions of the information technology and physical infrastructure of NASA’s Near Earth Network, part of the agency’s far-reaching Space Communications and Navigation Program, face security risks, says an audit by Paul K. Martin, the agency’s inspector general.
