Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Auditors at the U.S. Government Accountability Office have found the U.S. Energy Department’s (DOE) plans for modernizing the nation’s nuclear weapons

The recent publication of emails stolen from the Italian spyware manufacturer Hacking Team are laying bare some of the functions of the secretive

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All-new stealthy spy plane will combine the best features of the iconic U-2 with those of the unmanned Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk.

All-new stealthy spy plane will combine the best features of the iconic U-2 with those of the unmanned Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk.

North Sea helicopter pilots are considering calling for a strike over concerns about layoffs by their employers in the face of the oil price slump.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s weather-delayed fifth resupply mission to the International Space Station embarked on a five-day trek to the six-person orbiting science laboratory early Aug. 19 with a successful liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Center.

India plans to launch its advanced multimedia communication satellite, GSAT-6, later this month. It will help offer application-based services to cellphone users and facilitate scientific experiments.

While clashes over U.S. intelligence-gathering flights have been dominating headlines recently, the relationship between the U.S. Navy and People’s Liberation Army Navy (Plan) forces has been steadily improving, says Adm. Jonathan Greenert, U.S. chief of naval operations (CNO).

Barry Matsumori, once one of the most visible executives at SpaceX, has joined Virgin Galactic as senior vice president of business development and advanced concepts.

The Asia-Pacific region is set to replace Europe as the second biggest submarine market over the next 10 years, with the U.S. continuing as the market leader, Strategic Defense Intelligence (SDI) predicts in a recent report.

TEAL GROUP forecasts UAV production rising from current worldwide total of $4b annually to $14b annually by 2025, totaling $93 billion in the next 10

It’s vacation season in the nation’s capital, with acvitity reaching its lowest ebb of the year, apart from scattered think tank events. On Wednesday

Selected U.S. military contracts for Aug. 10, 2015. U.S. AIR FORCE L3 Communications Corp., Arlington, Texas, has been awarded a $12,900,000 cost-plus

Findings from bone loss studies conducted on NASA space shuttle astronauts are helping to develop blood and urine tests that could ease the monitoring of osteoporosis and bone marrow cancer, according to a research team from Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic.

Senate Democrats are asking Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to start talking about the budget before the August recess ends.

India plans to buy 48 more Mi-17 V5 helicopters from Russia even as Russian Helicopters prepares to complete the delivery of a previous order for 151 of the transport aircraft to New Delhi by the end of this year.

H-D Advanced Manufacturing Co. has acquired Firstmark Corp., the parent company of Twin Commander Aircraft, through a cash merger.

H-D Advanced Manufacturing Co. has acquired Firstmark Corp., the parent company of Twin Commander Aircraft, through a cash merger.

NASA is offering a chance for space enthusiasts to send their names on the upcoming Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to the surface of Mars.

Japan is operating probably the world’s third or fourth largest radio signals intelligence (sigint) establishment, ranking behind the U.S. and Britain but maybe not Russia and China, Australian researchers say in a new report on the subject.

U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) has issued a request for proposals for the successor Ford-class aircraft carrier radar.

Researchers from eight U.S. universities will pursue early stage advances in support of NASA space program technology needs that range from high temperature tolerant solar cells and enhanced thermal protection systems to food production.

“The Department of Defense (DOD) is taking several steps to develop guidance and training related to determining the reasonableness of prices,” GAO says in a report released earlier this month.

U.S. NAVY awarded $1.66b in contracts for C4I systems for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, possible other U.S. government and foreign military customers. M.C. DEAN, INC. has $853m multiple-award contract; HONEYWELL has $805m multiple-award contract; work on both to be complete February 2019.