The Earth Fire Alliance’s three FireSats reached orbit and will undergo about three months of testing and checkout ahead of nominal operations at year-end.
The U.S. Air Force will go ahead with keeping a two-pilot crew for its new B-21 bomber, despite a push from the prior leader of Air Force Global Strike Command.
The U.S. Army has kicked off a competition to build an interceptor with a goal of testing within the next several months and possibly fielding it within a year.
Turkey has begun talks with Russia to enable it to sell on the controversial S-400 air defense system, the purchase of which got it banished from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Australia and the U.S. have conducted the first live-fire test of a new medium-range surface-to-air missile system based on the RTX Standard Missile-2.
Remote sensing startup Open Cosmos is looking to begin operational service using its newly launched spacecraft as soon as on-orbit verification is complete, with the first taskings already planned.
The first 737 to be assembled in Boeing’s facility in Everett, Washington, has been loaded onto the new “North” production line, marking a major milestone in its campaign to boost single-aisle manufacturing capacity.
The U.S. military’s key intelligence partners will soon be able to use the U.S. Space Force’s new domain awareness platform ATLAS thanks to forthcoming upgrades.
The Pentagon has funded nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight to build laser systems to defend against next-generation cruise missiles and uncrewed aircraft systems.
Northrop Grumman is confident the certification challenges that delayed introduction of NATO's Global Hawk-based Alliance Ground Surveillance system can be avoided.
The U.S. Navy is moving forward with the upgrade of the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet’s electronic warfare system, with plans to buy upgrade kits from RTX’s Raytheon unit.
