The South Korean Parliament has refused a defense ministry request to spend 30% more on Lockheed Martin F-35 acquisition in 2017 than originally planned.
LONDON—The UK is to spend £100 million ($127 million) with General Atomics to further develop the company’s Certifiable Predator B unmanned air system. &nbs
Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second, and significantly improved, SpaceShipTwo (SS2) sub-orbital vehicle after completing a fourth, and final, captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.
Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) demanded accountability for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at the outset of a Dec. 1 hearing.
Even before taking office, president-elect Donald Trump is shaking up the business world, taking credit for keeping 1,000 UTC jobs in Indiana that might have gone to Mexico. “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences,” Trump says. The parent company of Pratt & Whitney and maker of the F135 engine may have been motivated to keep those jobs stateside to remain in the Trump administration’s good graces. But industry analysts see the company’s decision as a sign that outsourcing is losing its luster.
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Published requirements for the U.S. Air Force's latest attempt to replace its 46-year-old “Twin Huey” type appear almost identical to the canceled Common Vertical Lift Support Platform.
Safran USA hopes to grow its portfolio of work for the Pentagon but knows it has a hard fight to educate Washington and the defense industry on tapping the American arm of the France-based Tier 1 aerospace and defense provider.
The U.S. Air Force wants a long-range, stealthy unmanned surveillance aircraft to go places the Lockheed Martin U-2S and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk can't.
The European Space Agency’s member state have agreed to fund €10.3 billion ($11 billion) of €11 billion requested for programs extending from 2017 out to 2025.
Upgrading the Bell 412 for Japan’s UH-X military program will produce a significantly improved helicopter for the civil market, including a higher gross weight.
United Launch Alliance will have some breathing room in its ongoing competition against SpaceX for national security space launches if Congress adopts the consolidated fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill.
NASA has decided to ease humans back to the Moon in a free-return flyaround trajectory on the first flight of the Orion crew capsule with astronauts on board, instead of going directly to the lunar orbit where it plans to test hardware for human missions to Mars.
Russia’s Progress MS-04 resupply mission to the International Space Station experienced a third-stage Soyuz launch vehicle failure 382 sec. after a Dec. 1 liftoff.
