The FAA has granted a two-year certificate of authorization to the Northern Plains UAS test site to fly large drones beyond visual line of sight of the operator.
India is inching closer to its goal of an armed Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (RUAV) with the successful test flight of a 10-kg (22-lb.) unmanned helicopter.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $105m U.S. Navy contract for continued design maturation and development of contractually identified F-35 Block 4 common capabilities.
Thailand has contracted Saab to upgrade the country’s national command and control system for air defense, which is based on the company’s 9AIR product.
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The launch of India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which had been scheduled for October, has been postponed until next year to allow for more testing.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $302m U.S. Navy contract for ancillary mission equipment for F-35 Lightning II low-rate initial production Lot 12 aircraft for U.S. military, foreign military sales customers.
This week Secretary of Defense James Mattis makes his first diplomatic trip to South America, visiting Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia to assess military-to-military relations.
Sentient Digital Inc., doing business as Entrust Government Solutions, New Orleans, is awarded a total $49,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for information technology (IT) engineering support services.
President Donald Trump has authorized $716 billion in national defense spending by signing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law.
Northrop Grumman performed a successful fit check for the U.S. Marine Corps of the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar on a Boeing F/A-18C Hornet in California.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched early Aug. 12 to begin a $1.6 billion, seven-year mission to study our nearest star in greater detail than ever before.
Afghanistan can provide full surveillance of its airspace now that the multilateration system at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has been restored, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission says.
The launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been tentatively reset for early Aug. 12, following a scrub late in the initial countdown in response to several issues.
The Pentagon has renamed its innovation unit that focuses on attracting nontraditional companies to work on artificial intelligence, autonomy, human systems, information technology and space to reflect its permanence within the Defense Department, a memo signed by the deputy defense secretary says.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) demand for Western-designed aircraft performing maritime missions will increase 11.9% from 2018 to 2027, from $2.9 billion to $3.2 billion, for a total demand of $31.1 billion.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $19.9m U.S. Navy contract for Aircraft Management System (AMS) and Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) components and work to support Lot 15 F-35 Lightning II production.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will nearly quadruple the space it occupies at the Grand Sky research and development park in Grand Forks, North Dakota,.
UK UAV developer Blue Bear Systems Research is to work with Cranfield University to create a corridor through national airspace for BVLOS drone testing.
