Bell Helicopter and India’s Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) have formally agreed to work together on future potential commercial and military helicopter requirements in India.
THALES introduced catapult-launched Fulmar X carbon-fiber composite small UAV system at Farnborough, designed for military and civil surveillance missions incl. border surveillance, natural disasters, illegal traffic monitoring. NORDAM has subcontract from NORTHROP GRUMMAN to manufacture three major structural components for F-35 center fuselage. RAYTHEON and U.S. Navy have completed all operational tests for Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 guided glide weapon variant, clearing way for initial operational capability
Consultancy Visiongain forecasts the Military Augmented Reality market will reach $1.3 billion in 2016 and continue to grow. “Military Augmented Reality has been a feature of aerial vehicles in the form of Heads-Up Displays and Helmet Mounted Displays for a number of decades,” Visiongain says. “However, integrating Augmented Reality into Helmets or smart glasses for dismounted soldiers is an incredibly new and embryonic market and one that will grow considerably over the next decade.”
A Silicon Valley startup plans to send an experiment in fiber-optics manufacturing to the International Space Station next year in a bid to make to the first commercial products that require microgravity for their creation, and sell them at prices higher than the cost of launch.
A KC-46 equipped with a reworked boom has successfully refueled a C-17 heavy cargo aircraft, a sign that Boeing’s tanker troubles may finally be coming to an end.
Saab CEO Håkan Buskhe is betting on reactivity at development and production levels to keep its Gripen C/D and Gripen E fighters attractive to foreign buyers.
Industrial researchers and entrepreneurs are finding new ways to use the International Space Station (ISS) to find profit in down-to-earth sectors far removed from the vacuum of space.
If the U.S. Air Force Reserve were to request more J-model C-130s, it would likely assign them to its dual-role aerial firefighting and spraying squadrons, according to the outgoing head of the Reserve, Lt. Gen. James Jackson.
Selected U.S. military contracts for July 5, 2016. U.S. ARMY Camgian Microsystems Corp., Starkville, Mississippi, was awarded a $7,737,765 cost-plus-fixed-fee, incrementally funded contract for the Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict radar demonstration, integration, and advancement project. Army Contracting Command, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is the contracting activity (W911NF-16-C-0086).
As Boeing looks to replicate success in maintenance and upgrades, the head of Boeing Defense’s Global Services and Support division sees growth ahead for his business, whether in the U.S. or abroad.
SIERRA NEVADA CORP. completed ISS Integration Certification Milestone 1 for Dream Chaser Cargo System under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract, securing agency approval of plan for six space station cargo deliveries during 2019-2024. RAYTHEON has $1.1m grant from U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop Scalable, Agile, Multimode, Front End Technology (SAMFET) for Next Generation Radar program. THALES and ELETTRONICA signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore joint initiatives and pursue business opportunities in electronic warfare.
This week all eyes are on the U.K. as the Farnborough International Airshow unfolds. Also this week, the International Space Station R&D conference gets underway in San Diego. Meanwhile in Washington, the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) tacair subcommittee on Wednesday afternoon will discuss “Air Dominance and the Critical Role of Fifth Generation Fighters” with Gen. Herbert Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command. At the same time, the HASC oversight subcommittee will review the European Reassurance Initiative with witnesses including Maj. Gen.
NASA’s Space Launch System could become a key player in plans to develop and deploy future generations of space-based observatories equipped to unlock the mysteries of the universe and seek out Earth-like planets around other stars, according to House panel testimony.
The outgoing U.S. Air Force Reserve chief says modernization of reservist Lockheed Martin 16s needs to keep pace with that of active-duty and Air National Guard fighters as the air branch embarks on a Fighting Falcon active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar upgrade and service life extension.
Unique research assets on Japan’s Kibo space station module will enable closer cooperation between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on the International Space Station.
Lockheed Martin flew its new armed UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Poland to the Farnborough International Air Show here this week in the hope of selling the versatile technology to militaries around the world.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover resumed normal operations July 11, nine days after the mechanical geologist was hobbled by what ground experts at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe is a software conflict.
As Lockheed Martin’s short takeoff-vertical landing F-35B defies gravity in front of thousands of spectators in the U.K., Rolls-Royce says it has reached an agreement with F-35 engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney for 13 more LiftSystems.
A consortium of QinetiQ and Thales have chosen Textron Airland’s Scorpion light attack aircraft as the platform for its bid into a major U.K. live flying training program.
An international tribunal has tilted toward the Philippines in its territorial clashes with China in the South China Sea, leaving other Asia-Pacific countries to await China’s next move and the ensuing U.S. response.
UTC Aerospace Systems has been contracted to integrate its long-range MS-177 reconnaissance sensor with the U.S. Air Force’s global intelligence gathering and exploitation network as the “Syers-2” successor is readied for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
As part of an effort to market its new tiltrotor technology to potential foreign customers, Bell Helicopter unveiled a full-size mockup of its V-280 Valor on the first day of the Farnborough International Airshow July 11.
