The U.S. Navy and Congress are grappling with the decision to equip ships with an Aegis combat system that lacks the ability to perform ballistic-missile defense.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.
After testing the waters with a crowdfunding campaign that garnered almost $14 million in pledges from thousands of individuals, startup XTI Aircraft has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert the expressions of interest into investments.
The compromise commercial-space law that received final congressional approval Monday night includes a provision that would-be space miners see as making it easier for them to raise funds and clear regulatory hurdles.
The U.S. Air Force’s first attempt at establishing a competition between launch upstart SpaceX and longtime monopoly player United Launch Alliance (ULA) has apparently fizzled before it started.
India’s GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 satellites—proposed to augment the country’s telecommunication, television services and in-orbit back-up system—will be launched in 2016 and 2017.
A group of nations led by the U.S. and Germany has submitted a proposal to the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) in Geneva to extend Ku- or Ka-band spectrum allocated for fixed-satellite services to unmanned aerial vehicles flying long-haul routes.
Debate continues in Congress about whether the U.S. Navy is following the right course in buying the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and follow-on frigates based on modified LCS designs.
The Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.
Boeing officials are shifting their attention to a second round of fuel dock testing with the first KC-46 aerial refueler following successful initial airworthiness certification for the aircraft outfitted with its wing-mounted pods and centerline refueling boom.
RAYTHEON completed Preliminary Design Review for Next Generation Jammer, which will replace ALQ-99 jamming pods on U.S. NAVY EA-18G Growlers; IOC planned for 2021.
The U.S. Army has conducted its first-ever intercept of a cruise missile target using the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system with target tracks from a non-PAC-3 radar. This marks a step forward in integrating U.S. missile defenses, a key goal for protecting deployed forces from attack. During a Nov. 12 flight test, a MQM-107 drone, emulating a cruise missile, flew a low-trajectory path, keeping it under the Patriot radar’s field of view. Two remote Sentinel radars, however, created a composite track of the threat.
In a bid to “push the envelope” on the use of additive manufacturing in unmanned aircraft, Stratasys and UAV developer Aurora Flight Sciences have built and flown what they say is the first 3D-printed jet aircraft.
As it continues to explore a unique tailless flying-wing design that promises lower drag, NASA Armstrong Research Center has flown the third iteration of its Prandtl-D configuration.
