EUROSAM, ASELSAN and ROKETSAN signed agreement to study Turkish long-range air and missile defense system to be launched in coming months. L3 TECHNOLOGIES has AIRBUS HELICOPTERS contract for 37 MX-15 electro-optical and infrared imaging systems for multiple H225M Caracal helicopter fleets.
As Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) undergoes treatment for brain cancer, his absence from the chamber could affect the timing of passage for the bill that tackles defense policy, including securing additional funding for the Pentagon. While plenty of others in Congress support McCain’s call for higher defense spending, defense analyst Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners says he doesn’t see another individual with the former prisoner of war’s stature or reputation.
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After four major arms purchases this year, the Thai military government is set to sign on for a fifth this month—a deal for four Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
Trump's defense industrial base review, which could report out around April 2018, could set up policy or legislative changes enacted through fiscal 2019 lawmaking.
NanoRacks LLC has demonstrated that spacesuit-garbed astronauts working outside the International Space Station can successfully maneuver around the external surfaces of what is to be the first commercially provided airlock.
House Republicans are combining several spending bills into one—to fund the Defense Department, Energy and Water Department, the Legislative Branch and Veterans Affairs.
A communications antenna on a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite that had been slated to launch next month will need to be replaced after a processing accident at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida.
The long-wing aircraft is in the same weight class as the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems RQ-1 and Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group Wing Loong-I.
An impact from a Ceres-sized planetary object early in its history may explain some of the more mysterious characteristics of Mars, researchers in the U.S. and Japan say.
Chris Kubasik’s long-expected rise to become the next CEO of L3 Technologies was confirmed late July 19 when the New York company said current Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese will retire Dec. 31.
Singapore has offered to send a detachment of UAVs for surveillance or reconnaissance in operations against militants claiming allegiance to the so-called Islamic State in the southern part of the Philippines.
A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers is parlaying high-resolution imagery of hurricanes and typhoons taken by International Space Station crewmembers into a new business venture to improve storm forecasting worldwide.
NASA has awarded Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, a potential $1.12 billion, long-term contract to provide technical, administrative and managerial services at Johnson Space Center.
