Outgoing Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, a former vice president of engineering for Raytheon, is a proponent of defense acquisition officials working in industry and then returning to public service. He says so-called revolving door concerns can lead to an unhealthy myopia on both sides of the customer-contractor relationship. “I thought it was invaluable for me to have 15 years in industry before I came back into government,” he says.
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The British government has declined to confirm or deny newspaper reports that the test of an unarmed Trident submarine-launched missile went awry, resulting in the weapon’s self-destruction off the Florida coast in June 2016.
President Donald Trump was spared heavy rain when he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, but poor weather thwarted what would have been the first military flyover for a presidential inauguration in 68 years.
The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder is taking advantage of a large gift and an ambitious new dean of engineering to help focus the state’s aerospace industry as a growing U.S. center for spaceflight innovation.
Despite Donald Trump’s vocal battering of two top Norwegian priorities, NATO and the F-35, Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expects the newly minted U.S. president to continue longstanding support for both.
The first batch of Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM) has been delivered to Poland for use on the country’s F-16 Fighting Falcon fleet.
The third of six U.S. Air Force missile warning satellites intended for geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) has successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) RD-180-powered Atlas V rocket.
Astronauts and engineers are teaming up at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to assess how well they can read and respond to Orion cockpit displays as the spacecraft vibrates during ascent.
NASA’s Lockheed Martin X-56A aeroelastic research aircraft is ready to fly once the flooded lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, has dried and can again be used as a runway.
Aurora Flight Sciences soon will begin testing the transition between vertical and horizontal flight for its LightningStrike high-speed, hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft under development for Darpa.
Made In Space and Axiom Space, two startups with innovative concepts for making money in orbit, have joined forces to collaborate on developing a private space station to manufacture low-noise fiber-optic cable and other products that require the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit.
Dozens of Western aerospace suppliers are on the verge of hiring thousands of workers and even establishing additive manufacturing facilities in Morocco.
