The DOD increased the size of its acquisition workforce from about 126,000 in September 2008 to about 153,000 in March 2015, the GAO says, while questioning whether the new personnel collectively possess all the skills the department needs.
The International Space Station resumed six-person operations Dec. 15 following the successful launch and docking of Russia’s Soyuz TMA-19M crew transport.
The U.S. aerospace manufacturing industry bounced back from an early year slowdown in orders and monthly backlogs to get into position again to break production records this year, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) reported Dec. 15.
India is considering putting in place an intensive security framework for regulating UAVs to check their misuse by enemies, a top government official says.
Thales Alenia Space has signed a €402 million ($440 million) contract with the European Space Agency to build the Sentinel-1C and 1D radar imaging satellites.
Outside experts advising NASA on safety will recommend that the agency reconsider a decision to drop an integrated flight test of the Orion crew capsule’s launch abort system.
P-8A: The U.S. Navy has awarded the Boeing Co. of Seattle a $67.5 million contract modification for P-8A training systems, services, and supplies in support of the P-8A training requirements for the government of Australia under a memorandum of understanding, the Pentagon announced Dec. 11. The modification will include support activities, supplies, and incidental services required to support 13 hardware Type II devices, three virtual maintenance trainers, and one ordnance load trainer.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $21m U.S. NAVY contract modification to purchase/manufacture/components installation for conventional takeoff/landing variant F-35 Lightning II for Japan. THE ROCKHILL GROUP (Fla.) has $13m U.S. AIR FORCE contract for Air Force Special Operations Air Warfare Center aircrew instruction support services.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 4-8, 2016—AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/GNC/g Jan. 4-8, 2016—34th Wind Energy Symposium, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/WindEnergy/
This year shaped up as a momentous one for planetary science, especially for discovery in the outer Solar System, and NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno mission promises to help make 2016 memorable as well.
Northrop hints that if its plan prevails final assembly will occupy the same Building 401 hangar at Palmdale’s Plant 42 site used for the construction of the B-2 stealth bomber in the 1980s and 1990s.
A detailed study of more than 900 unmanned-aircraft sightings reported to the FAA by pilots and air traffic controllers has concluded that 90 involved encounters with commercial aircraft close enough to meet the agency’s definition of a near midair collision.
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with O3b Networks to produce eight Ka-band communications satellites that will expand the fleet operator’s existing constellation of 12 Thales-built spacecraft by early 2018.
Northrop Grumman will begin wind tunnel tests next month of a tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing UAV capable of operating from smaller U.S. Navy warships.
Northrop Grumman provided a first glimpse of its T-X trainer offering to a group of reporters Dec. 10 in Palmdale, California. It plans to roll out the demonstrator in Mojave in January.
Amid signs of growing U.S. Air Force and Navy interest in a sixth-generation combat aircraft, Northrop Grumman is accelerating studies of key technologies for directed energy weapons and thermal management, which it says will be fundamental to future capability.
PALMDALE -- Amid signs of growing U.S. Air Force and Navy interest in a sixth-generation combat aircraft, Northrop Grumman is accelerating studies of key technologies for directed energy weapons and thermal management, which it says will be fundamental to future capability.
