The F-35A is expected to join NATO’s extended deterrence mission with the Boeing F-15E. After being modified to receive a B61-12 nuclear bomb, he F-35A will replace the Lockheed Martin F-16 now performing the same mission.
Britain’s decision to pursue a potential sole-source purchase of Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft was based on the risks and incompatibilities associated with the potential competitors.
NASA’s looming top management and performance challenges are hardly unfamiliar, according to an annual assessment provided by the agency’s inspector general.
Days after delivering a payload of cubesats into orbit, U.S. smallsat launch firm Rocket Lab has closed on an additional financing round of $140 million.
Airspace Technologies, a startup pitching proprietary software for time-definite logistics in air cargo, has raised $20 million in venture capital funding.
Nanosatellite startup AST&Science says Midland, Texas, will be the site of its proposed high-volume North American sat manufacturing plant and corporate HQ.
The Pentagon will present its fiscal 2020 budget request that includes the White House’s mandated 5% spending cut to President Donald Trump the week of Nov. 26.
A petition for exemptions from FAA rules governing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) reveals rotorcraft developer Bell plans to use a large commercial multicopter drone, the xFold DragonH, for research and development flying.
The UK Ministry of Defense has reaffirmed plans to order 17 more Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters as part of a three-year block buy currently being negotiated.
Astronics, an Upstate New York supplier of aircraft passenger seat power and other products to the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, as well as technologies for the semiconductor sector, said it would move away from the latter to focus more on its growing A&D business.
