The U.S. worldwide aircraft carrier presence will likely increase in the coming year, says Rear Adm. Jeff Harley, assistant deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy.
BOEING and AH-64E Apache industry partners General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Longbow Ltd. launched initiative with Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) to explore opportunities for collaboration with Polish industry. ARCA SPACE CORP. (unmanned aerial vehicles) will locate its headquarters and U.S. production facility at Las Cruces International Airport.
The U.S. Navy has awarded teammates Bell Helicopter and Boeing a contract for five V-22 Ospreys for Japan, marking the first foreign military sale of the tiltrotor. The $332.5 million contract includes the Block C aircraft, support, training and related equipment. “The versatile V-22 tiltrotor will allow Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force greatly enhanced capabilities, while providing an ideal platform for relief efforts in response to natural disasters,” the companies said in announcing the contract. The V-22 is in service with the U.S.
LAUREL, Maryland — Pluto’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere appears to be leaking across open space to collect on at least one of the poles of the dwarf planet’s large moon Charon, according to scientists processing data the New Horizons probe sent to Earth shortly before its closest approach to the two bodies.
Only a few short minutes into its June 28 flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 began to break apart, prompting the U.S. Air Force to exercise a rare responsibility to send destruct signals to the rocket.
Raytheon has turned to nontraditional suppliers to produce a lower-cost airframe for the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) in a move that also paves the way for a modular, interchangeable payload capability.
Mission managers now have settled in to wait for a brief signal Tuesday night that will let them know how the spacecraft fared in its intricately choreographed flyby.
For the U.S., Operation Talisman Saber provides an opportunity to train rigorously with an Australian alley that the U.S. says it will need to help secure the peace in the large expanses of the Asia-Pacific region.
Hovering above the action as U.S. Marines and Australian soldiers stormed the shore of Fog Bay this month as part of the Talisman Saber exercise was a DGI Phantom 2 Quadcopter capturing scenes from vantages previously unavailable.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott touted the defense relationship his country has developed with the U.S. and discounted any ill feelings that bond could cause with China
Deployments of 16 CubeSats from the Japanese segment of the International Space Station are planned through July 16, following the initial launchings of six Planet Labs small satellites July 13-14.
Airbus’s electric-powered E-fan demonstrator has made a successful crossing of the English Channel, but its efforts were beaten by an enterprising French aviator.
In the meantime, as representatives from Northrop Grumman and Boeing/Lockheed Martin – the two teams vying for the massive contract – wait on pins and needles, they are giving out little new information out about the secretive project.
Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said Monday the spacecraft will hit its 60 x 90-mi. box “almost at the center of it” and right on time.
“That is actually one of the parts we enjoy most: actually getting out there and working with the engineers, working with the people that are making it happen," says Bob Behnken, who handed off his NASA chief astronaut duties last week to become one of NASA’s commercial crew cadre.
This year’s Talisman Saber’s exercise is proving to be a showcase for the MV-22 tiltrotor, with the aircraft expanding the U.S. Marine footprint thanks to the Osprey’s range, speed and utility, U.S. Marine and Navy officials say.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is intervening in the U.K. defense ministry’s upcoming Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR) by encouraging commanders to invest in more special operations forces, unmanned air vehicles and intelligence-gathering aircraft.
