The agency this week is issuing three concept development contracts for the new Multiple Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) program, one each to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing.
Europe’s Rosetta comet chaser is about to enter what may be the mission’s most exciting science phase yet as Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko spins closer to the Sun than it has since 2009.
Several securities law firms say they are investigating claims on behalf of investors in Precision Castparts Corp. about the company’s acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway.
The U.S. Navy could cut its purchases of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter carrier variant to as few as 12 aircraft a year through the 2020s, compared with 20 per year under the program of record.
With an NSF grant of $6 million for the Cloud Map project, a team of four universities will develop an integrated unmanned aircraft system to monitor and investigate the lower atmosphere.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed contracts for the development of the new Ariane 6 heavy lift vehicle, a new Ariane 6 launch facility and development of an upgrade to the Italian-led Vega light launcher.
The Polish defense ministry is defending its selection of the Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal after a Polish magazine claimed government officials had broken procurement regulations.
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 6 USS Jackson, the first of the block-buy LCS vessels, at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month.
There is no shortage of inventive ideas in the commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sector, but many of them go well beyond what civil aviation regulators are expected to allow for the foreseeable future.
The electric sail under study at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center could reach the edge of the Solar System in less than 15 years--a trip that took the Voyager spacecraft 36 years.
HOUSTON — Ad Astra Rocket Co. will attempt to raise the technical readiness level of its Vasimr plasma rocket engine through prolonged ground trials under the terms of a potential three-year, $9 million fixed price contract administered through NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) initiative.
The aircraft, assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem AB, went down in woodlands near the town of Engelmannreuth in northern Bavaria shortly after 9:30 a.m. The pilot ejected safely
Reduced activity in the oil and gas industry caused by a fall in energy prices is continuing to weigh heavily on helicopter operators that support energy companies.
With the U.S. and Japan continuing to work together on ballistic missile defense and other regional security issues, naval leaders from the two countries met recently in Washington to bolster ties.
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and sailors aboard the amphibious dock landing ship LSD 48 USS Ashland reconfigured the ship’s well deck and flight deck earlier this month to support equipment and supplies that needed to be transported to Saipan to provide disaster relief in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $1.5b foreign military sale to Japan of two ship sets of the Mk. 7 Aegis Weapon System, AN/SQQ-89A (v) 15J Underwater Weapon system and Cooperative Engagement Capability, plus associated equipment, parts and logistical support.
With lawmakers out of town, think tanks in and around Capitol Hill are filling the vacuum with more discussion of the Iran nuclear deal – both the Heritage Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies take up the subject Thursday. Meanwhile, on Wednesday CSIS will host a discussion on naval aviation featuring Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, deputy marine commandant for aviation, and Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of naval air forces.
Selected U.S. military contracts for Aug. 3, 2015 U.S. AIR FORCE Engineering Research and Consulting Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, has been awarded an $82,153,023 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research in Propulsion Sciences III. Contractor will provide for on-site research and development to the Air Force Research Laboratory across a wide spectrum of propulsion-related areas. Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB, California, is the contracting activity (FA9300-15-C-0004).
The competition was to design a four-seat electric general-aviation aircraft that would be competitive with piston-powered aircraft when it entered service in 2020.
With the U.S. Navy focusing on replacing its Ohio-class nuclear-powered strategic missile fleet, the Senate confirmed the current naval nuclear propulsion program director earlier this month as the next chief of naval operations (CNO).
