MDA Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the agency is accepting some risk in reducing interceptor buys for the Aegis combat missile defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in fiscal 2017.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 plan maintains its funding for carriers and destroyers but – as recently directed by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter – cuts down on the number of Littoral Combat Ships and fast frigate successor vessels.
Under the plan, aeronautics funding would break the $1 billion barrier for the first time in more than two decades, peaking at more than $1.3 billion in 2023.
The budget plan appears to contain no real surprises except an apparent shift away from the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that has been a centerpiece in President Barack Obama’s space policy.
The reflects a base Navy future years defense program from 2017 to 2021 of $826.4 billion, or about $1.6 billion higher than the FYDP presented with the fiscal 2016 budget.
Altogether the budget plan includes about $13.2 billion for the Ohio-class replacement program across the future years’ defense program (FYDP), with the initial submarine included in fiscal 2021.
The U.S. and South Korea are looking to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system on South Korean soil in light of recent North Korean actions, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
BBA ACQUISITION acquired LANDMARK AVIATION for $2.065b, further expanding its MRO subsidiary SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT. RAYTHEON has $135m FAA contract to upgrade air traffic control systems at last 22 airports of the Standard Terminal Automation System (STARS), completing NextGen terminal modernization at major FAA National Air Space facilities by December 2019.
The U.S. Air Force launched the 12th and final Boeing GPS IIF satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Feb. 5. “Today’s launch is a significant achievement in the history of GPS, as we launch the last of the GPS IIF satellites to be delivered on-orbit,” said Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, Space and Missile Systems Center commander, in an Air Force statement.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Feb. 10-11—MRO Network — Aero-Engines Americas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information go to http://events.aviationweek.com/current/public/enter.aspx
The U.S. Navy will increase its planned future orders of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter in the fiscal 2017 defense budget to be released tomorrow, as directed by Defense Secretary Ash Carter in a December memo to the service.
Cargo deliveries to the International Space Station with the SpaceX Dragon capsule will have the highest price of the three private vehicles chosen for the second round of Commercial Resupply Services work, but NASA has high confidence of its chances for success.
Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14’s lunar module pilot and one of only a dozen Americans to walk on the Moon as part of NASA’s initial foray into deep space nearly a half century ago, has died.
North Korea again raised tensions in the Asia-Pacific with a missile launch Feb. 6, and the U.S. Pacific Command underscored the strength of its allies in defending the region.
European missile manufacturer MBDA says it has begun delivering a batch of Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM) to the U.S. that are ready for integration onto the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
