The guided-missile destroyer DDG 71 USS Ross intercepted a ballistic missile in the Atlantic during the Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum’s At Sea Demonstration.
Senior Pentagon officials and the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) this week to minimize the risk of inflight incidents among coalition and Russian aircraft operating in Syrian airspace. The MOU includes specific safety protocols for aircrews to follow, such as maintaining professional airmanship at all times, the use of specific communication frequencies and the establishment of a communication line on the ground. The U.S. and Russia will form a working group to discuss any issues in following the MOU.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $85m U.S. Army contract for an additional seven AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) counterfire target acquisition radars. Full-rate production contract for 77 additional systems expected in early 2016. COBHAM has $15m in recent orders from BAE SYSTEMS for microelectronic components and integrated microelectronic assemblies for radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems for the F-35 Lightning II.
Who better to turn to than the creative side of almost everyone for ideas on how to find and protect the Earth from asteroids on potential collision courses.
Military policy leaders in Congress took steps to reform the acquisition system this year, including allowing service chiefs to sign off on purchasing decisions.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft mission has debuted images of the sunlit Blue Marble Earth on a new NASA website, http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
Canada’s Liberal party scored a surprise victory in Monday’s federal election, and, for the time being, eliminated one of the largest export customers for the F-35.
The U.S. Navy will have to rely on more of its current aircraft to complement its planned carrier-based F-35C force, service officials and analysts say.
Dirk Hoke, 46, currently CEO of Siemens’ Large Drives business unit, will join Airbus Defense & Space on Jan. 1 as deputy CEO and will step up to the role of CEO on April 1, 2016.
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3 USS Fort Worth completed aviation-related qualifications earlier this month during its first Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercise with Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, the U.S. Navy says.
RAYTHEON has $200m contract modification from U.S. Missile Defense Agency for continued software and hardware maintenance, limited modeling and simulation support, radar engineering support and Ballistic Missile Defense System test planning, execution and analysis. Work brings total contract value to $910m.
A National Academies panel is recommending the National Nuclear Security Administration develop a series of design competitions “that integrate the full end-to-end design process from novel design conception through production and non-nuclear testing of an engineered prototype,” to preserve the nation’s nuclear weapon design skills and help maintain a credible deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.
To list anTo list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 22—The 30th Annual Women In Aerospace Awards Diner and Ceremony, Ritz Carlton, Arlington, Virginia. For more information go to http://www.womeninaerospace.org/events/current.html
The U.S. Transportation Department plans to finalize what will likely be an emergency rule requiring owners of recreational UAVs to register with the FAA.
