The U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and American ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are helping stitch together a security net for the U.S. and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.
Sikorsky’s entry into Darpa’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
The decision by offshore helicopter operator CHC to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will impact other industry players, Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says.
Naval Sea Systems Command Expeditionary Missions Program Office, Visual Augmentation Systems program recently began to transition Wide Field of View night vision goggles to the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighters, Navy officials say.
The Blue Origin New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system has joined NASA’s stable of rides to space and near-space for experiments under its Flight Opportunities Program.
Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1.
Lockheed Martin is standing up its final assembly and support facility for the T-50A advanced trainer in Greenville, South Carolina, as the aircraft enters flight testing in South Korea ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition, expected to get underway late this year or early next.
The Russian state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, has pushed back the launch date for the next three-person International Space Station (ISS) crew from June 24 to July 7 to further check out a flight control system issue that could disrupt docking operations, the TASS news agency says.
A new U.S. patent granted to Airbus Helicopters details a refinement of its high-speed hybrid helicopter concept that incorporates a joined-wing configuration to reduce weight.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for a grounding of all European-registered H225/EC225 helicopters after Norwegian investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in a gearbox component from the aircraft that crashed in Norway in April.
The U.S. Army launched the in-development Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on May 25, hitting a moving truck target.
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) plans to review ScanEagle contract pricing in the wake of a Pentagon Inspector General (IG) investigation into program transactions.
Airbus Defense and Space is providing systems engineering support to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based startup that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to deliver a rover to the Moon’s surface by the end of 2017.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Harris Corp. a $106 million option to continue sustaining ground systems that support U.S. missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance missions under the System Engineering and Sustainment Integrator (Sensor) contract. The contract was first awarded in 2002; this is the 10th of 13 options.
THALES issued €600m ($668m), 0.75% fixed-rate bond maturing in June 2023. INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES appointed Peter Stier senior director of sales for Proton and Angara launches in the Americas. SUKHOI delivered first batch of Su-34 frontline bombers to Russian defense ministry May 30. Aircraft took off from V. P. Chkalov Novosibirsk Aircraft Plant’s airfield. MEGGITT TARGET SYSTEMS has five-year contract worth up to C$35m ($27m) for surface and aerial target systems for Canadian defense department.
Selected U.S. military contracts for May 23, 2016. U.S. AIR FORCE Intelligent Software Solutions Inc., Colorado Springs, has been awarded a $23,200,350 modification (P00016) to previously awarded contract FA8819-15-C-0003 for Joint Space Operations Center Mission System infrastructure service oriented architecture. Contractor will provide development, integration, test, and information assurance activities for Joint Space Operations Center Mission System Increment 2. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, California, is the contracting activity.
