Next week’s fiscal 2017 Pentagon budget proposal will include more U.S. Navy aircraft, missiles and submarine investments, including funding for a new antiship version of the SM-6 missile.
The company says while technology demonstrations showed microwave propulsion is feasible, the technical risks and cost uncertainty were unattractive to investors so work was halted at the end of 2015.
Noting that their pilots are reporting more incidents of breathing problems in F-18-based aircraft, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are combining their resources to find causes and fixes for the problems.
The lack of aircraft and spare parts is curtailing the number of fighters and other airplanes available for proper training, cutting into surge readiness and creating other operational concerns, some of the top officers for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air operations say.
Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington-based private equity firm focusing in part on aerospace and defense, will buy the defense and security business of iRobot “for up to $45 million,” the companies said Feb. 4.
Airbus Helicopters has downplayed reports in the Polish media that the country’s defense ministry has decided to halt a tender to buy 50 H225M Caracal utility helicopters.
Defense Minister Michael Fallon has confirmed that the U.K. will order two Airbus Defense and Space Zephyr 8 solar-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs.
NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft carried out a successful 35-min. trajectory adjustment maneuver on Feb. 3, the first of two needed to keep the probe on course for a July 4 arrival at the Solar System’s largest planet.
The aviation-centric New Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 6 USS America may create problems for U.S. Marines to move their forces ashore as needed, and the U.S. Navy and Marines are working on new tactics to do the job, a report says.
China’s missiles may get the headlines, but the People’s Liberation Army’s electronic warfare capabilities may warrant the biggest concern, the Center for Strategic and International Studies says in a recent report.
India is preparing to conduct the second canister-based trial of the nuclear-capable Agni-V missile by the end of this month, a government official says.
Appointment of a successor to Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) Michael Gilmore will spark a lobbying war in Washington, fueled by Gilmore’s harsh criticism of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, according to defense analyst Pierre Sprey and Tom Christie, the Pentagon’s first DOT&E.
Demand for a commercial human facility with International Space Station research capabilities is not a foregone conclusion, and may develop only slowly if at all as the station approaches the end of its service life in 2024 or later, academics and engineers say.
Cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov retrieved, deployed and conducted experiments outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station during a Feb. 3 spacewalk.
The critical pressure vessel for the Orion capsule has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for testing leading up to its use on the first uncrewed flight test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in late 2018.
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is visiting India through Feb. 6 to help deepen maritime partnerships between the two countries, Navy officials say.
