Embraer plans to reduce its workforce through a “voluntary dismissal program” for employees in Brazil in light of a challenging global aerospace environment.
Instead of the ammo work being a breakeven project for Orbital as expected, the company has since learned it will lead to a $400 million operating loss.
The German army has increased the availability of its Tiger combat helicopters, which could be deployed in support of United Nations operations in Mali.
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $640,100,000 undefinitized contractual action delivery order (TH05) against a five-year base contract.
The Kuwaiti government has thrown Airbus Helicopters’ troubled H225 helicopter an urgently needed lifeline by purchasing 30 military versions of the aircraft.
While the U.S. Marine Corps is starting to see overall improvement in aircraft readiness, the service still has quite a bit to work to do across the spectrum of its aviation programs, according to Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller.
U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
Under a launch-for-data-exchange contract, NASA will launch Lockheed Martin’s SkyFire 6U CubeSat on a lunar science trajectory as part of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has U.S. Navy contract to begin work on second Japanese E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. First Japanese E-2D is due for 2018 delivery. RAYTHEON has $523m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract option to produce, test and deliver 47 Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptors for testing and deployment.
The U.S. is demonstrating its ability to strike targets around the globe, sending five of its bomber aircraft on long-range missions in the Arctic and Pacific. Three B-52 Stratofortress and two B-2 Spirit bombers are conducting nonstop flights from the U.S. to the North and Baltic Seas, according to U.S. Strategic Command. The aircraft are flying over Alaska and the North Pole and over the Pacific Ocean to the Aleutian Islands. As part of the mission called “Polar Roar” the bombers are conducting intercept training with Canadian CF-18s and U.S.
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A new assessment of nearly 4,300 exoplanet candidates detected using NASA’s Kepler space observatory has produced 20 Earthlike terrestrial planets orbiting their host stars within the so-called “habitable zone."
The first two Compass Call aircraft outfitted with glass cockpits under the $45 million Avionics Viability Program (AVP) have returned to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona after modification.
Argentina’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA), has completed the first flight of its IA-100 indigenously produced composite training aircraft
Magic Carpet is a set of software changes to the aircraft’s integrated controls to use the F/A-18’s angle of attack to help ensure the proper glidepath and provide a steadier aircraft controlled by relatively small and quick wing adjustments.
Malaysian maintenance firm Airod has completed a program of maintenance on its first Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.
