Tuesday morning House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) will speak at the Atlantic Council in Washington, discussing “America’s strategic priorities in a tumultuous and dynamic security environment.” Then on Wednesday afternoon, Thornberry’s committee will discuss strategy against Islamic State militants with analysts from Rand Corp. and the American Enterprise Institute, among others.
Some of the first color New Horizons images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon have answered one question – what color are they? But they have raised another – why are the two bodies in the same “binary dwarf” different colors?
PZL-Swidnik, AgustaWestland’s Polish partner for the country’s multirole utility helicopter requirement, has filed a lawsuit over the tender processes used by the country’s defense ministry.
After nearly 14 years of record-setting orbital operations and more than 1.1 billion mi. on its virtual odometer, NASA’s Mars Odyssey mission spacecraft is stocked with enough fuel to remain active for another decade.
Sikorsky has begun work on the deveSikorsky has begun work on the development of a standardized Flight Crew Operating Manual (FCOM) for its S-92 heavy helicopter. lopment of a standardized Flight Crew Operating Manual (FCOM) for its S-92 heavy helicopter.
Getting a right read on Arctic changes is making it difficult to properly plan for military operations there, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
A Scottish court has ordered the U.K. Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) to release the cockpit voice recorder data from a North Sea helicopter accident in order to make it available for prosecutors.
The U.S. carrier strike groups (CSGs) employ and operate a network of sensors to defeat the most hotly contested and defended areas, says Rear Adm. Michael Manazir, director of Navy air warfare.
While the U.S. is providing more money for its Aegis ballistic missile shields, there are still unresolved operational issues, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) June 22-26 — AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Hilton Anatole, Dallas, Texas. For more information go to www.aiaa-aviation.org/
BOEING has U.S. Air Force contract worth up to $466.5m to continue maintaining guidance systems for Minuteman ICBMs. SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL (SSL) will build BSAT-4A direct-to-home TV satellite for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation of Japan, based on SSL 1300 bus, featuring 24 Ku-band transponders and 15-year design life. VISIONGAIN estimates global geospatial intelligence market for defense and homeland security reached $9.7b in 2014.
The U.S. Senate’s first version of the fiscal 2016 defense-authorization bill is expected to include provisions that would re-insert the leadership of the four armed services in the Defense Department into the acquisition decision-making system. The move would unwind a major reform of the landmark 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, which forced the military to become more “joint” and coordinated across the board. Furthermore, it would cut the oversight of the Pentagon’s acquisition czar.
What was once a strength has become a potential weakness, with the likelihood GPS will be jammed in a future major conflict, forcing the U.S. to look for alternate means to enable its precision-guided munitions (PGM) to find their targets in a contested environment.
Canada has formally accepted the first six Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopters, achieving a milestone originally planned for November 2008 when the 28-aircraft contract was awarded in 2004.
Live RAM tests are rarely done, notes Fire Controlman 2nd Class Tyler Brozenick, the work center supervisor in charge of the fired missile. This was, however, the second conducted in the last five years aboard the Kearsarge.
“The PLA Navy remains at the forefront of the military’s efforts to extend its operational reach beyond East Asia and into what China calls the ‘far seas,’” the Pentagon says in its recent annual report on China.
LOCKHEED MARTIN will deliver 10 Sniper pods to Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF); integration and support beginning this year. NORTHROP GRUMMAN flew Open Mission Systems (OMS) architecture on NASA-owned Global Hawk UAV at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, CA, confirming ability for ground controllers to communicate with OMS payload via satellite.
The Pentagon Inspector General (IG) plans to audit U.S. Naval Air Systems Command to see if it is purchasing sole-source spare parts at fair and reasonable prices from Boeing Insitu for the company’s ScanEagle UAV. In a June 16 memo to the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, the director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, the director of the Defense Contract Management Agency and the Naval Inspector General, the IG says it will consider suggestions from management on additional or revised objectives for the audit.
The Anglo-French team studying the potential development of a joint unmanned combat air vehicle for the 2030s will make significant decisions on the air vehicle’s planform and powerplant this fall.
