LOCKHEED MARTIN has $257m U.S. Navy contract for alternate mission equipment for lot 10 F-35 Lightning II for the U.S. military and international partners. BOEING has $70m Australian Ministry of Defense contract to sustain Australia’s C-17A Globemaster fleet. ASTRO AEROSPACE delivered mid-boom assemblies for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The Israeli defense ministry has completed a deal worth hundreds of millions of shekels to centralize its computer infrastructure to centralized data centers, prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says in a statement. “This represents the largest technological tender in the history of the [Israeli Defense Force] and defense establishment,” according to the statement.
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The planned four-day test of World View's Stratollite high-altitude balloon over Arizona ended after 17 hr. due to a small leak in an altitude control system.
The council will convene a Users' Advisory Group composed of non-government representatives of industries and other persons involved in aeronautical and space activities, according to President Trump's executive order.
The agreement, signed in Brussels during a meeting of NATO defense ministers, comes as Britain and Norway pave the way for the introduction of the Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Pentagon’s leading contractor, said it is making a “strategic investment” in nanosatellite provider Terran Orbital.
In the absence of top-level budget guidance from the House and Senate budget committees, House appropriators have added $800 million to NASA’s fiscal 2018 budget.
NASA must continue to invest in high-performance human spacecraft propulsion beyond Earth orbit if its exploration goals are to be realized, experts told House lawmakers Thursday.
The helium-filled balloon rose from its high desert launch site shortly after 9 a.m. EDT, following a delay to wait for favorable weather after a scrubbed attempt June 21.
The Inmarsat/Hellas Sat mission originally was allocated to SpaceX, but was switched to Arianespace due to delays in SpaceX’s manifest following the on-pad explosion of a Falcon 9 in September 2016.
The bill authorizes $631 billion for baseline military requirements compared to the $603 billion requested by the president, and another $65 billion for wartime needs.
The committee’s mark of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill approves $700 billion in spending on the military, including $632 billion in the baseline budget and $8 billion for Department of Energy national security programs.
Hensoldt, which was spun off from Airbus earlier this year, signed a share purchase agreement with private equity firm ECI Partners, which owns Enfield-based Kelvin Hughes, the two companies announced June 29.
Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) high-tech surveillance AP-3C Orion aircraft will operate over the southern region of Mindanao to fight Islamist militants...
But unless Republicans and Democrats reach a wider budget deal that raises sequestration caps on government spending, the Air Force may not get the money it needs to continue flying all nine Warthog squadrons.
The addition of Germany and Norway brings the total number of countries in involved in the MMF program to four, including the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Belgium has expressed a wish to join the program in early 2018.
A newtarget drone designed for the U.S. Navy to replicate the flight patterns and countermeasures of enemy anti-ship cruise missiles and aircraft has moved into low-rate initial production.
