Deliveries of the Eurofighter Typhoon to Saudi Arabia and trading of equipment for the fighter to European customers helped boost revenues for BAE Systems last year.
Amid increased U.S. ship and aircraft patrols in the South China Sea, and with Taiwan flexing more muscle in the region, China has deployed surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, adding even greater risk to operations there.
The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division is helping create a virtual cyber testbed ship called USS Secure, designed to make cybersafe warships for Naval Sea System Command.
Despite China's apparent ambition to control just about all of the South China Sea, only two of the countries adjoining that body of water are clearly reacting with armament efforts—Vietnam strongly and the Philippines much less so.
Boeing is urging customers considering ordering the P-8 Poseidon maritime aircraft to move before U.S. Navy contracts for the type dry up this decade, pushing production prices higher.
The world’s most capable thermal vacuum chamber is on track to receive the optical/instrument components of the James Webb Space Telescope for a critical round of early 2017 prelaunch testing.
Back-to-back launches from Russia and Japan early Feb. 17 deployed a pair of scientific spacecraft for the European and Japanese space agencies that are designed to monitor Earth’s oceans and explore the X-ray universe, respectively.
North Korea will continue with missile and nuclear tests, the Pentagon says, but U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the nation is prepared.
A Northrop Grumman-led team chosen last year to provide the U.S. Air Force’s first Long-range Strike Bombers (LRS-B) enjoyed a political and financial boost Feb. 16 when congressional arbiters of federal contract protests affirmed the armed service’s decision.
Saab is introducing gallium-nitride (GaN) technology to airborne early warning and control (AEW&C), with a multi-mission aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that combines aerial, ground and sea surveillance, with signals intelligence as an option.
Charles Elachi, the longtime director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s National Space Trophy.
