Canadian industry is missing out on strategic opportunities on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter because of the new Ottawa government’s election promise to hold a competition for its next fighter, says Magellan Aerospace, a major Canadian supplier to the program.
The U.S. Navy’s new procedures for dealing with breathing system problems in F-18 line aircraft will require a surge in spare parts and logistical needs.
AVX Aircraft is to develop the transmission and propulsion systems for the vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) shipboard unmanned aircraft that Northrop Grumman is building under Darpa’s Tern program.
India’s Reliance Defense Ltd. has teamed up with French avionics firm Sagem to develop and transfer technology for the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) system for naval warships and combat aircraft.
An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine assigned to Submarine Group 10 completed a Follow-on Commander’s Evaluation Test (FCET) earlier this month with the launch of three Trident II D5 missiles, U.S. Navy officials say.
To achieve the stated goal of reducing the flyaway cost by approximately $10 million by the end of 2019, to $85 million for the conventional F-35A, will require the government customer to begin investing in manufacturing improvements beginning in 2017.
The crew's activities are scheduled to include the addition of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module space habitat and the belated installation of the first docking port for U.S. commercial crew transport vehicles.
Russia has approved a 10-year, 1.4 trillion ruble ($20.51 billion) budget for space programs, according to a March 17 announcement posted on the government’s website.
Navantia is poised to win another Australian naval construction program following the choice of the Spanish company as preferred supplier for two replenishment ships.
Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg has purchased the minority stake in its Finnish counterpart Patria, consolidating a chunk of the Scandinavian defense industry.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has postponed a planned price hike in air show charges that would have seen administration fees for U.K. air displays increase by 100%.
Adding radar reflectors and transponders to cubesats and other tiny spacecraft is one way private industry can make it easier to deconflict increasingly crowded orbits, a top U.S. Air Force officials suggested March 17.
The U.S./European Jason-3 oceanography satellite has successfully generated its global map of sea surface elevation measurements, data that reveals a tailing off of high eastern Pacific sea levels associated with El Nino that peaked in January.
Industry needs more clarity on what the U.S. Defense Department plans for its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative beyond the Joint Multi Role (JMR) technology demonstration now underway, the head of Sikorsky’s military business says.
After years of squabbling with Congress over high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, Lockheed Martin is continuing to pitch its UAV concept as a way to settle the matter.
