The U.S. Navy must focus on longer-term security threat trends and maintain its superiority in traditional areas like the undersea realm while securing new frontiers like the emerging cyber battlefield,the U.S. chief of naval operations says.
The U.S. Navy is using its foreign-basing plans for EA-18G Growlers and the current F/A-18E/F Super Hornet maintenance model as a sustainment template for the electronic attack aircraft, a Defense Department Selected Acquisition Report says.
Finmeccanica-owned companies such as AgustaWestland, Alenia Aermacchi and Selex ES have now been absorbed into the larger Finmeccanica entity and will operate as divisions rather than separate companies.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has restored a domestic plutonium-238 production capability for future NASA deep space missions.
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $255.3 million contract to Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for work on the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer, the DDG 1002 Lyndon B. Johnson.
NASA characterizes tech transfer as one of its longest-running missions and touts the claim in the just-published 2016 edition of the agency’s annual Spinoff publication.
The aircraft—which has been carrying out development flying for more than a decade—received Russian certification from the Federal Air Transportation Agency on Dec. 30.
The £369 million ($547 million) contract will support the U.K. Royal Air Force’s C-130Js until 2022, despite the recent decision in the U.K.’s Strategic Defense and Security Review to keep 14 of the aircraft in service until 2030.
Even before the Fire Scout was embarked on the LCS 3 USS Forth Worth for its current Western Pacific deployment, the UAV had completed other overseas missions.
The contract appears to launch full-scale development of the KF-X with assistance from Indonesia. But it is unclear whether KAI can make much progress in 2016, since the defense ministry has secured very modest funding for the coming 12 months.
The Dec. 19 flyby was the last in a series of 22 close encounters between Cassini and Enceladus that have revealed a small, ice-covered, geologically active world with a global ocean.
Sustainment costs for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor are likely to be higher than those of previous aircraft performing similar missions, but the design differences of the aircraft make accurate comparisons difficult.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
The U.S. Air Force is reassessing its launch processing procedures with an eye toward dramatically increasing launches at its Eastern Range, according to Brig. Gen.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to further develop high-energy laser weapons to better defend Navy ships against attack, the company confirms.
Buffeted by this month’s Pentagon directive to cut its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and frigate fleets and a U.S. Government Accountability Office report questioning the fleet’s lethality and survivability, the U.S. Navy is spotlighting the LCS 3 USS Forth Worth’s successful year at sea in the Western Pacific.
