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LOCKHEED MARTIN has $364.6m U.S. Army contract for Army Tactical Missile (Atacm) and Launching Assembly Service Life Extension program for the U.S. and Romania.
Transport Canada has selected four organizations for a pilot project to conduct proof-of-concept trials of flying unmanned aircraft systems beyond visual line of sight in civilian airspace.
One of the USAF's top acquisition programs, the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, will complete its critical design review by year’s end, a senior official says.
President Trump has told NASA to make a fresh assessment of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center model for operating the agency’s field centers.
Satellite operators Airbus and Planet are to combine their respective capabilities in high-resolution and global, frequent-revisit Earth observation for joint offerings.
U.S. civil and military officials are backing the Trump administration’s push to place responsibility for space traffic management in the Department of Commerce.
Elbit Systems will buy state-owned IMI Systems, the weapons maker once known as Israel Military Industries, for about $495 million up front, confirming a long-expected consolidation of Israeli defense companies.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next 10 years, 2,230 newly built, Western-designed helicopters performing transport missions will be delivered and 1,692 will be retired. At the same time, 847 transport helicopters will be remanufactured into new types.
The Philippines has enlarged its 2018-23 defense modernization program by 44%, budgeting for multirole fighters and the first of at least two planned subs.
After a lack of UK government support was blamed for the failure of a project to convert London’s waste into jet fuel, a new effort has taken a step forward.
The DOD will use predictive analysis to anticipate future aviation mishaps and the services are adopting methods to gather that data, senior officials say.
U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command is resuming B-1B flight operations this week following a June 7 safety stand-down in response to concerns over the bomber’s egress system.
Raytheon said it is investing $100 million in a new 50,000-sq.-ft. facility in east Mississippi that will be a “hub” for test, integration and production of S-band radars, including the U.S. Navy’s SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar program.
SpaceX has won its first U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) heavy-lift launch service contract, work previously awarded solely to United Launch Alliance.
