As the U.S. and Chinese navies continue to successfully conduct joint drills using the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES), Adm. Jonathan Greenert, U.S. chief of naval operations (CNO), says he sees CUES expanding even more, possibly involving international coast guards as well.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the FAA has a structural flaw in its efforts to ensure that the FAA’s modernized air traffic management systems and procedures, also known as NextGen, will be compatible with similar programs at least nine other countries are deploying.
As new military pilots begin their first training exercises, it is increasingly likely their aerial foes will be veterans flying commercially operated fighter aircraft.  
Three new or derivative weapons were unveiled at the MAKS show here last week by Tactical Missiles Corporation, all designed specifically to fit the internal weapon bays of the Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has a $89.3m U.S. Navy contract for the system development and demonstration (SDD) Phase I Increment 2 for first aircraft arrival and initial ops in support of Israel’s F-35A under Foreign Military Sales program. Work to be complete in March 2020. AIRBUS HELICOPTERS has contract from OCCAR to define architecture for Mk. 3 mid-life upgrade of EC665 Tiger helicopter.
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U.S. lawmakers will spend their fall wrapped up in negotiations aimed at stalling development of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Iran’s neighbor to the southeast, Pakistan, may have the fastest-growing nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. Within the next decade, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may be the world’s third largest behind the U.S. and Russia and nearly twice the size of its rival India’s, according to a report from the Stimson Center and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
SpaceX says it remains at least “a couple of months” away from returning to flight following the Falcon 9 launch failure on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on June 28, partially because the company’s accident investigation has taken longer than expected.
The hard-fought competition pitted the Pentagon’s two suppliers of directed infrared countermeasures systems against each other to win the only major new program for laser jammers to protect U.S. military helicopters, tiltrotors and small fixed-wing aircraft.
The crew of the aircraft carrier CVN 69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower – known as the “Ike” – returned to sea earlier this month following a 23-month period in dry-dock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), U.S. Navy officials say.
With the United Nations COP21 climate change forum just a few months away, France and Gabon are discussing expanded space cooperation in the area of Earth observation.
As the U.S. and Chinese navies continue to successfully conduct joint drills at sea using Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES), Adm. Jonathan Greenert, U.S. chief of naval operations (CNO), says he sees CUES expanding even more globally.
An eight-rotor remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) that crashed while providing coverage of the International Cricket Council World Cup Final in Melbourne, Victoria, this spring may have been overcome by radio frequency interference from broadcast telecommunications facilities, mobile broadcast vehicles and cell phones from the more than 93,000 attendees of the event.
Ireland is planning to replace its pair of CASA-built CN235 Persuader maritime patrol aircraft in 2019 with a “larger, more capable aircraft,” a white paper on the country’s defense says.
Work still remains to declare the new MUOS payload – designed to provide 3G “smart phone-like” capabilities to users around the globe – operational on the $8.2 billion system.
NASA has picked a third cubesat proposal for a piggyback ride to lunar orbit with the first flight of the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), testing whether the growing capabilities being developed for the tiny spacecraft can serve its space-science needs.
The full-duration test in the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi completed work to characterize the reusable engine’s performance at the higher thrust levels, higher inlet pressures and lower temperatures the flight engines will experience in the first SLS mission.
The pilot of a Bombardier Dash-8 regional airliner has described a near miss with a UAV while on approach to London’s City Airport as “possibly catastrophic.”
