Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has developed a smartphone app which could analyze laser events with aircraft and provide law enforcement agencies with the information they need to prosecute offenders.
India is set to conduct a launch escape system trial later this month, verifying the rescue systems for future human spaceflight missions in case of an emergency.
SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (formerly SAGEM) has French DGA order for AASM Block 4 modular air-to-ground kits to be mounted on NATO-standard bomb bodies.
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, on Jan. 4 approved the U.S. Navy’s planned replacement for Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines to begin development
The U.S. Air Force is launching a new cyber swat team to build resiliency into new programs and troubleshoot existing problems, Secretary Deborah Lee James announced Jan. 6.
Startup Vanilla Aircraft is preparing to attempt a 100-hr. flight with its VA001 small unmanned aircraft system, having already set a world endurance record for its powerplant type and weight class of 55.9 hr.
Medical experts assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are urging NASA to dig deeper into possible connections between the health and performance risks faced by humans assigned to long missions to deep space destinations.
Thales has received a firm order from the French armament procurement agency DGA for 105 Spy’Ranger “mini drones” which the country’s army will use for surveillance and reconnaissance.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $450m U.S. Navy foreign military sales contract for low-rate initial production Lot 10 F-35 Lightning II advance acquisition for the Republic of Korea.
The U.S. Air Force is tackling the readiness of its aging KC-10s, starting the new year with maintenance orders for its super-size aerial refueling tanker.
Like Juno, Lucy will derive enough energy from its advanced solar cells to eliminate the need for a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, the previous norm for probes operating at that distance from the Sun
Dassault Aviation received orders for 36 Rafales last year, while a mere 21 Falcons were sold, thus confirming healthy export sales for the French fighter and a sluggish business jet market.
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works U-2S fleet appears to have fully transitioned to the RQ-4 Global Hawk’s primary communications and electronic intelligence collector, the Northrop Grumman ASQ-230 Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP).
Airbus Helicopters has begun airframe studies on the Tiger attack helicopter to assess whether the aircraft will need structural modifications to see out a 40-year operational life.
Britain’s Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS) is to receive a new fleet of turboprop trainers and single-engine light helicopters as it prepares to align its training regime with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations.
One of the most tightly choreographed joint human and robotic activities ever undertaken aboard the International Space Station, unfolding since New Year’s Eve, reaches a milestone on Jan. 6.
French aerospace industry lobbying group Gifas is worried that cuts in public research funding may jeopardize the leading position of French companies at a time when other European countries are maintaining their support to aerospace research.
One of eight medium-thrust engines fell off a U.S. Air Force B-52 heavy bomber from Minot AFB, North Dakota, in a Jan. 4 incident, the service confirmed to Aviation Week.
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $303,080,064 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Naval nuclear propulsion components.
