The U.S. Air Force has issued a stop-work order on the Long-Range Strike Bomber to Northrop Grumman in accordance with standard procedures for contracts that undergo a protest.
Israel’s new Terra missile warning and space control radar system will have detection ranges of “thousands of kilometers” against missile-sized targets, Israel Aerospace Industries Elta division says.
The Chinese air force has declared operational the Avic JL-9 Mountain Eagle, a supersonic trainer matched to the performance of the country’s latest fighters.
A multidisciplined U.S. Navy audit team conducted a Cybersafe initial pilot audit earlier this month at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (Spawar).
Leidos has been named the winner of the Airborne Reconnaissance Low – Enhanced (ARL-E) competition to replace the Army’s Bombardier EO-5C ARL-Multifunction surveillance aircraft.
SIKORSKY completed VH-92A presidential helicopter preliminary design review. Two ITALIAN AIR FORCE pilots completed initial training flight in F-35 Lightning II Nov. 5 at Luke AFB, AZ, marking first flights of the jet under control of Italian pilots.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) is closer to reopening its doors. The House approved a transportation bill that includes the same Ex-Im Bank reauthorization language as the transportation bill passed by the Senate. Congress has until Nov. 20 to approve a conference report merging differences between the bills. Though that seems easy, supporters of the bank continue to strike a tone of caution.
Lockheed Martin expects its international organization to learn from Sikorsky’s commercial business following completion of the defense giant’s $9 billion acquisition of the helicopter manufacturer.
The U.S. Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) process was flawed, leading to an unfair award to Northrop Grumman for development of the stealthy aircraft that is estimated to be worth up to $80 billion, according to Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Spacewalking U. S. astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren conducted a major plumbing task outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 6 in a bid to stem an elusive leak of toxic ammonia coolant.
The fourth and final trajectory-correction maneuver comes as scientists begin making discoveries in the spectroscopic data from the July 14 encounter with Pluto and its moons.
How the U.S. funds its next ballistic missile submarine fleet will set the tone for all other shipbuilding programs in coming years, says Michael Petters, CEO for Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the U.S. Navy’s stop shipbuilder.
