Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) are asking Defense Secretary James Mattis for specifics on how the U.S. military will be affected if it begins fiscal 2018 operating on a continuing budget resolution.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is continuing to invest in low-cost attritable UAV platforms that could someday fly operations alongside manned fighters like the F-35.
Harris is to supply an active electronically scanned array (AESA) to BAE Systems for the radio-frequency countermeasures (RFCM) system it is providing for U.S. Air Force special-operations Lockheed Martin AC-130J gunship and MC-130J tanker/transports.
The “Rude Rams,” of Hill AFB, Utah, are set to receive aircraft equipped with an initial release of the final Block 3F software in September, but not the final updates that are still under test.
Following a demonstration with BNSF Railway, Rockwell Collins has shown how its CNPC-1000 command-and-control data link can enable inspection of other linear infrastructure by unmanned aircraft systems flying beyond visual line of sight.
Boeing has been briefed by the U.S. Air Force after missing out on one of two contracts to work on the service's next nuclear cruise missile, and must now decide whether to protest the decision.
The U.S. Air Force has lifted a temporary flight restriction limiting the F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, to flying below 25,000 ft., although no root cause has been identified for a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents at that location.
With Lockheed out, Boeing and Northrop are now in a head-to-head battle to capture the nation’s most important strategic nuclear missile program since the Cold War.
The test took place at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, against a single, probably North Korean-style medium-range ballistic missile target.
India will launch the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft, IRNSS-1H, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C39) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
The Boeing Co.-Philadelphia, Ridley Township, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $222,549,505 firm-fixed-price modification (P00069) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0002 for eight each CH-47F new build helicopters.
The U.S. Congress will have little time to work out any legislation for the FAA, including whether to privatize air traffic control (ATC) services, when it reconvenes in Washington in September.
Japanese and U.S. forces in the region left the missile alone, despite each spending billions of dollars annually on missile defense technology designed to shoot it down.
The “Green Knights” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, stationed at Iwakuni, Japan, are set to get their first F-35Bs equipped with the final Block 3F software in September.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston remained closed to all but essential personnel Aug. 29, four days after major hurricane-turned-tropical storm Harvey barged ashore on the Texas coast.
Expected to open later this fall, the lab is dedicated to advancing the use of 3D printing for the creation of composite tooling applications addressing complex design and manufacturing requirements.
The move means the U.S., Air Force can now move forward with its plan to replace the Compass Call electronic jamming plane, used to eavesdrop on and attack enemy communications.
