A push by the U.S. Air Force to equip the Lockheed Martin F-35 with the 500-lb. Raytheon-built GBU-49 has mitigated a looming five-year “capability gap” against moving and maneuvering targets.
The German Air Force is seriously interested in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the central node of its future networked strike complex, which includes unmanned surrogates.
“The drawdown of flying hours for the F/A-18A/B Hornet in future years is in accordance with the planned transition to the F-35A Lightning,” Australia's defense department says.
The legacy of the space shuttle and X-37B will come together in Phantom Express, the reusable launch vehicle that Boeing is to build and fly under Darpa’s XS-1 experimental spaceplanes program.
The U.S. Air Force is funding construction of new facilities to house its European operating location for RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft at RAF Fairford.
The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposes shifting the FAA’s air traffic control functions to a non-profit, non-governmental corporation by 2021.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has accelerated development of the warhead-killing Multi-Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) by five years in response to emerging threats.
NASA’s fiscal 2108 budget request for aeronautics research keeps the agency’s New Aviation Horizons (NAH) X-plane program alive, but with a slower pace of new flight demonstration programs.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) $7.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2018 includes almost $600 million over five years to finally begin addressing the hypersonic missile threat from Russia and China.
The news that the Dragon Lady will continue patrolling the skies indefinitely, revealed May 23 in President Donald Trump's budget request for fiscal 2018, is a reversal of the Air Force's previous plans.
President Donald Trump’s $19.1 billion fiscal 2018 spending request for NASA achieves a 0.8% decrease from current levels by terminating a robotic satellite-servicing demonstration mission and, as expected, trimming Earth-science missions.
The Trump administration’s request for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 was not accompanied by the regular five-year defense spending plan, leaving even suggested guidance for major defense acquisition programs officially unknown.
President Donald Trump’s first proposed budget for the U.S. Air Force keeps the service’s top modernization priorities on track, but does not include the major boost to procurement programs that many defense hawks had hoped for.
NASA’s ambitions of reaching Mars with human explorers continue to pay dividends for Johnson Space Center, the highest funded of the agency’s 10 field centers.
The U.S. Army continues to back the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) in its fiscal 2018 budget request, despite reducing spending on aviation accounts overall.
