With the new acquisition directions from Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the U.S. Navy will soon have to better address some of its bedeviling bandwidth issues.
Two U.S. astronauts, working against the clock, hustled through a 3 1/2-hr. spacewalk on Dec. 21 to unjam the International Space Station’s unlatched 1-ton Mobile Transporter rail car.
BAE SYSTEMS has $278m PENTAGON contract for Instrumentation Radar Support Program, including radar/telemetry/optics systems for 28 test ranges across U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Energy Department, NASA, seven foreign governments. Work being performed at Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; expected complete by Dec. 21, 2020.
UAV SUPPORT: The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., of Poway, California, a $338.2 million contract for Predator (MQ1) and Reaper (MQ9) UAV contractor logistic support, the Defense Department announced Dec. 18.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 4-8, 2016—AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/GNC/g Jan. 4-8, 2016—34th Wind Energy Symposium, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/WindEnergy/
A new U.S. Government Accountability Office report continues to question the Littoral Combat Ship's lethality – especially when it comes to its offensive missiles.
The probe of a fatal crash of a Hawker Hunter fighter at an airshow in August is focusing on regulations surrounding the maintenance of former military aircraft and the fitment of ejection seats in them.
Two Indonesian pilots died when their almost-new Korea Aerospace Industries TA-50 trainer-attack aircraft crashed during an aerobatic display at an air show on Dec. 20.
India has decided to buy five S-400 supersonic air defense systems from Russia for an estimated 400 billion rupees ($6 billion) to guard against airborne threats from across the country’s borders.
The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) was awarded a $34.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract earlier this month for lifecycle engineering and support services on the U.S. Navy’s LPD 17 USS San Antonio class of amphibious transport docks, the company has confirmed.
U.S., Indian and Japanese officials recently recognized the importance of working with China on global issues, but agreed that such agreements are not moderating Chinese behavior in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, a CSIS report says.
While the U.S. Navy, contractors and analysts are still digesting this month’s directed shakeup of the service’s acquisition strategy by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, some potential winners are emerging.
The NASA-led International Space Station’s Mission Management Team is preparing for a possible unplanned spacewalk on Dec. 21 or 22 to move and secure the space station’s mobile transporter.
The destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt assisted with a rescue mission earlier this month while on sea trials about 40 nm southeast of Portland, Maine, the U.S. Coast Guard says.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is finding puzzling clues of a changing environment on ancient Mars as the robotic geologist travels up the base of Mount Sharp.
Active terrain on Pluto discovered in the New Horizons probe’s July 14 flyby appears to be driven by a thick layer of nitrogen ice at the bottom of the heart-shaped basin dubbed Sputnik Planum.
The amphibious assault ship LHA 6USS America is the first West Coast ship to have its flight deck upgraded with a thermal spray coating in key landing areas in order to more fully support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters
Turbomeca’s Arrius 2R turboshaft—the first European engine to be fitted to a Bell-produced helicopter—has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
