BELL HELICOPTER has $49.1m U.S Navy contract for procurement of long-lead items and components for 27 Lot 15 AH-1Z aircraft for the Marine Corps through March 2018. SCHIEBEL has Royal Australian Navy contract for Camcopter S-100 System and three years of follow-on contractor logistics support.
As low Earth orbit gets crowded, classified national security spacecraft are becoming an open book, according to Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), a member of the House armed services and science committees. “Other nations have commercial capabilities with sensing capabilities, you know, telescopes and radars, and they’re seeing these things and they’re reporting them,” he told a recent FAA commercial space conference.
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As part of its plan to field a Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demo, NASA has issued a call for interested companies to submit a “capability statement.”
NASA has released a detailed scientific assessment of a potential mission to the intriguing Jovian moon Europa that would touch down on the icy moon in 2031.
Some production work resumed amid recovery activities at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 13, six days after a tornado swept across the 829-acre, 81-facility site.
The Turkish government has signed off on a development program for an indigenous turboshaft engine that could eventually go on to power Turkey’s T129 attack helicopter and future utility rotorcraft.
Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to Mars.
BAE SYSTEMS has $26.7m U.S. Navy contract to definitize USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) fiscal 2017 phased maintenance availability undefinitized contract action.
To “dig out” from the U.S. military’s readiness problems, the vice chiefs of the services and more than a few lawmakers want to scrap Budget Control Act spending caps on defense and nondefense spending.
The lobbying group for France’s aerospace industry has released annual performance numbers earlier than planned, reacting to recent negative comments about the contribution of the industry to France’s 2016 balance of trade.
A panel of aerospace and defense analysts has proposed ditching the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing 747-8-based Air Force One in favor of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber, or a less-costly militarized Boeing 737 fleet.
NASA’s embrace of cloud computing has been slowed by weaknesses that leave some data stored in cloud environments at risk, an inspector general's audit says.
Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks is to develop an embedded electronically scanned antenna for Ka-band inflight connectivity under a joint project with Airbus.
