General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has flown a version of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) unmanned aircraft with a new wing to further increase endurance.
The Last Man on the Moon, a moving film documentary that explores the life of former U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, opened in select theaters across the U.S. last weekend.
India has allocated 2.58 trillion rupees ($38.6 billion) to defense spending for its 2016-17 fiscal year, a marginal increase of 9.7% over last year’s revised estimates of 2.33 trillion rupees.
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are in the very early stages of developing a futuristic vessel that soars like an aircraft across water at more than 100 kt.
Whether the deal would be good for the aerospace and defense (A&D) sector increasingly is being called into doubt, based on growing reactions from industry insiders.
Engineers at NASA continue to work toward developing the advanced Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) in time for the first Space Launch System (SLS) mission with a crew, and have until late this summer to decide if it can be done.
A Lockheed Martin official remains optimistic that the F-25 program is on track to begin initial operations on schedule in August or by December of this year.
Australia has decided on early replacement of the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter, apparently regarding the type as not worth the expense of modernization.
Releasing pictures online of potential radar sites in the South China Sea could strengthen China’s operational strength there, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says.
China’s continued weapons buildup on artificial island features could give the country much greater control of the South China Sea and its trading lanes, says Adm. Harry Harris, the Pacific Commander for the U.S.
With the amount it spends on service contracts, lawmakers should look at requiring more Defense Department reporting for those transactions, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a recent report.
House Republicans got scant support Feb. 25 for the details of their going-in plan to avoid a repeat of the space-policy upset that followed President Barack Obama’s decision to kill the Constellation family of deep-space human-exploration vehicles, but won endorsement for the basic idea from a pair of NASA veterans who lived through it.
With his U.S. record-setting 340-day mission to the International Space Station drawing to a close, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly can rest assured his next assignment is to reacclimate to life on Earth.
Iridium Communications Inc. has nixed plans to launch its first two Iridium NEXT satellites on a Russian Dnepr rocket in April, opting instead to lift a batch of 10 new-generation spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in July.
Australia is widening its options for sustaining its wing of strike aircraft into the 2030s to include unmanned systems, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting no longer considered the default choice.
Australia will employ an additional 1,700 people in intelligence, cyber and related fields as it strives to maintain what it calls decision-making superiority over possible adversaries.
