Defense

By Tony Osborne
GE Aerospace and its Italian business Avio Aero have secured the first study contract associated with NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The potential overhaul springs from a review led by service secretary Frank Kendall.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Repeated sightings of a new form of low-observable features means infrared stealth technology is progressing out of military and industry laboratories.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
As the U.S. Army prepares for high-speed rotorcraft, the commercial helicopter industry continues its wait for advanced new technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Jouppi, Sterling Richmond
Aviation Week has assembled this guide to some of the most important contests that are unfolding between 2024 and 2033.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Egon Rinderer
The timely availability of UAS due to fleet maintenance issues has come into question–possibly jeopardizing mission objectives.
Aircraft & Propulsion

AAR

AAR was selected by DLA Aviation to supply spare parts for Woodward fuel control product line (AAR is exclusive distributor for Woodward).

Defense

By Garrett Reim
True Anomaly, a startup developing spacecraft for space domain awareness missions, has raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
L3Harris highlights the potential for the acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne to help the defense contractor become a larger player in space and missile systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The F-35 Joint Program Office head says he still cannot predict when a software issue that has halted deliveries from Lockheed Martin will be corrected.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Satellite technology company Quasar is targeting the U.S. military market with a new, ground-based steerable phased array radar for space domain awareness.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has reshuffled how it presents its space-focused forces to combatant commands, modifying a scheme to have a broader goal of improving readiness.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK government is preparing to publish its Space Sector Plan in early 2024, laying out its national space capabilities ambitions.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Kosiniak-Kamysz will replace Mariusz Błaszczak, who led Poland through a radical equipment modernization program prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

The second edition of the World Defense Show will open in Riyadh on February 4th 2024.
Aerospace

Military aircraft opportunities are expected to peak in 2032, according to the newest Aviation Week Intelligence Network outlook.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne, Brian Everstine
An ongoing software problem haunts Lockheed Martin’s production and modernization agenda for the F-35 as a raft of new competitors hit key milestones in 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Hear from experts in Accenture’s aerospace and defense practice as they review exclusive results from their latest Commercial Aerospace Insight Report.
Check 6 with Accenture

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on Dec. 11 received another $271 million contract to build six MH-47G Block II helicopters for U.S. Special Operations Command.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Orbit Fab and ispace have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing rocket propellants from lunar resources.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency on Dec. 11 successfully tested an upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The $280 billion largesse of the CHIPS and Science Act has started filtering down to the industrial centers supplying parts to Pentagon programs.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare