RAYTHEON has $2.5m DARPA Phase One contract for Squad X Core Technologies (SXCT) program, designed to speed development of new, lightweight, integrated infantry systems. U.S. AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND Remote Sensing Systems Directorate completed Space-Based Infrared System’s Block 10 Integrated Test/Evaluation Readiness Soak.
The first 4 of 20 A-29 Embraer Super Tucanos have been delivered to the Afghan air force and are expected to enter service in April, according to a spokesman for operations in Afghanistan. “This will be a significant increase in their capability to provide their own close air support,” says the spokesman, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner. The aircraft is designed for hot weather operations and rugged terrain and the ability to accurately deliver weapons.
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Oil-and-gas-support helicopter industry body HeliOffshore has begun research into how helicopter pilots monitor flight instruments by using eye-tracking research.
An anomaly resolution team continues to pursue the source of a worrisome water blob that formed in the helmet of the NASA spacesuit worn by U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra during a Jan. 15 spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
Sixty days after Blue Origin achieved its first milestone vertical landing with the New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle, the company has repeated the feat with the same rocket.
French President Francois Hollande and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi say they have reached a political agreement on the sale, but negotiations on price continue
As part of SpaceX’s plan to develop a human-rated version of a Dragon crew capsule capable of precision-powered landings on the ground, the company has revealed the first images of propulsive hover tests.
The U.S. Navy recently tested its newly developed Common Control System (CCS) with a submersible unmanned vehicle during a series of underwater missions at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport in Puget Sound, Washington.
As part of SpaceX’s plan to develop a human-rated version of the Dragon crew capsule capable of precision powered landings on the ground, the company has revealed first images of propulsive hover tests undertaken in late November at its McGregor, Texas facility.
Sixty days after Blue Origin achieved its first milestone vertical landing with the New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle, the company has repeated the feat with the same rocket.
Startup XTI Aircraft has launched a formal stock offering after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) qualified its crowdfunding campaign to assess interest in backing development of its TriFan 600 vertical-take-off-and-landing business aircraft.
The program is still on track for an unmanned trip around the Moon in the fall of 2018 with some extra features enabled in part by a $174 million congressional funding boost.
As the U.S. and its coalition partners intensify the pace of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon plans to bolster Baghdad’s arsenal with nearly $2 billion in weaponry, equipment and logistics support for Iraqi F-16s.
