The chairman of the Senate Armed Services slammed Lockheed Martin’s F-35 for cost overruns and schedule delays just one day after company executives touted progress on the program.
The powerful chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services committees are sounding the alarm over an increasingly likely year-long continuing resolution (CR) that could have devastating effects on military readiness.
The U.S. Navy is expected to release the final systems requirements for its Carrier-Based Aerial-Refueling System—otherwise known as the MQ-25—any day.
Under a full-year continuing resolution for fiscal 2017, the U.S. Air Force would be $1.3 billion short of what it needs to fully fund flying hours and weapon system maintenance, among other readiness needs.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, is being awarded an $87,242,797 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, level-of-effort contract.
Top Lockheed Martin officials are targeting the end of the year to secure a deal for the 11th batch of F-35s and wrap up development of the fifth-generation aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are talking about using the F-35 program’s Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) across more aircraft fleets.
Lockheed Martin says the next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile it has proposed to the U.S. Air Force to replace the Boeing Minuteman III is modular enough to someday carry maneuvering hypersonic glide vehicles.
Lockheed Martin engineering managers in charge of developing the Orion crew capsule for NASA say the vehicle planned for an unmanned three-week mission in lunar orbit next year could be ready for an eight-day lunar flyaround with two astronauts on board before the end of 2019.
The dual-launch of the Thales Alenia Space-built SGDC and Koreasat-7 satellites on an Ariane 5 has been postponed from its March 21 target due to a strike in French Guiana, where Europe’s Kourou spaceport is located.
The planned launching of Orbital ATK’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has moved from March 24 to no earlier than March 27.
Thales Alenia Space sees overcapacity as a factor in the weak telecommunications satellite market, in addition to fast-moving technology and a slow global launch rate.
The French government is making a last-ditch effort to get Malaysia to order Dassault Rafales ahead of a planned visit by its president to the Southeast Asian nation.
Space start-up Rocket Lab is accelerating series production of rocket engines and avionics for its Electron launch vehicle at a newly opened facility in California.
AUSTRALIA’s defense ministry launched A$730m ($560m) Next Generation Technologies Fund to improve Australian defense capability and innovation over a ten-year period. F-35 LIGHTNING II recently conducted first firing trials of MBDA Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (Asraam) at NAS Patuxent River, MD, and Edwards AFB, CA, marking first launch of a non-U.S. missile from the stealthy fighter.
British and French criminal investigators are doubling down on an inquiry into Airbus and alleged misuse of third-party agents and European export credit. Last August, Airbus acknowledged the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had opened an investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in the civil aviation business of Airbus Group relating to irregularities concerning third-party consultants.
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