Scientists believe they can take the “missing” out of the missing carbon mystery linked to a changing Martian environment that evolved from warmer, wetter conditions 3.8 billion years ago to the current cold, dry realm that persists today.
The U.S. Air Force erred in making some past performance determinations in a recent contract award for F-15 support service in Saudi Arabia, the GAO says.
China and Vietnam took strides toward a better relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Vietnam, but the visit apparently did not derail Vietnam’s plans to bolster its security relationship with Japan.
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it is in discussions with Honeywell and Dowty as it looks to the West for suppliers for its An-132 aircraft program with Saudi Arabia.
BOEING DEFENSE, SPACE & SECURITY has $261m U.S. AIR FORCE contract for lot 19 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) inertial guidance kits capable of receiving GPS guidance updates.
COMBAT VEHICLES: The U.S. Navy has awarded SAIC of McLean, Virginia, a $121.5 million fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract to produce the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) Phase 1, Increment 1 (ACV 1.1), the Pentagon announced Nov. 24. The contract will procure 13 EMD ACV 1.1 and services associated with manufacturing, engineering, logistics and program support. There is also one option during the base period of performance to procure three additional EMD vehicles.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket will fly again after achieving an intact powered vertical landing of the launch vehicle and parachute recovery of the unpiloted crew capsule to conclude a test flight.
Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a $1.16 billion NASA contract to restart production of the RS-25, the former space shuttle main engine, for the Space Launch System.
While U.S. and Chinese defense officials have been trading barbs over South China Sea patrols, ships from the two navies continue to drill with one another.
The Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has opened a new facility that provides work space for the crews of Virginia-class submarine pre-commissioning units while their submarines are under construction.
THALES has four-year NATO subcontract for ballistic missile defense testing/integration on Integrated Test Bed at The Hague, as part of work awarded to prime contractor Leidos.
An advance in gamma-ray spectrometers could prove valuable in the detection of valuable materials locked under the surfaces of asteroids, moons and other airless bodies.
The U.K. will buy 138 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and order nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft as part of an $18 billion defense spending hike.
The X-47B carrier-launched demonstrator UAV operated seamlessly with legacy aircraft during recent flight tests aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
Slow progress in Australia’s submarine acquisition program will probably force the country to modernize its current six boats, a Canberra think tank says.
India has test-fired an indigenously-developed supersonic interceptor missile as part of its efforts to develop a full-fledged, multi-layer ballistic missile defense system.
