When it comes to securing Pentagon contracts, it all comes down to making the best proposal, and a top Navy deals evaluator says the key is this: write it right.
In light of the recent mishaps involving U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, the spotlight is shifting squarely onto maintenance issues caused or exacerbated by the lack of funding due to sequestration and other funding concerns.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) June 4—Aerospace Today...and Tomorrow - An Executive Symposium, Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia. For more information go to www.aiaa.org/ATT2015/
Despite NASA’s intent to find multiple deep-space missions for the Space Launch System (SLS) currently in development, agency Administrator Charles Bolden has reaffirmed that there will be no quick decision on using the rocket for its planned mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall says every F-35 partner nation has expressed interest in participating in a massive block buy of the Lockheed Martin jets to start in fiscal 2018.
Stealth and cost are among the reasons why the U.S. Navy’s new Ohio Replacement ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is larger than its predecessor despite having two-thirds the weapon capacity, according to Adm. Joe Tofalo, Navy director of undersea warfare.
Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center tested a modified RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) for 450 sec. on May 28, marking the restart of hot-fire testing for the planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) after a five-month hiatus for test-stand modifications.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring research to better understand the motions, forces and pressures generated by waves on boats with high-speed planing hulls.
With China still smarting from recent U.S. reconnaissance flights over disputed territories in the South China Sea, America is bolstering its ties with regional partners.
ARIANESPACE launched DirecTV-15, SKY México-1 broadcast satellites May 27 aboard Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana. NORTHROP GRUMMAN will unveil new airborne sensor system June 2, bringing infrared search/track (IRST) to U.S. tactical/transport aircraft. BOEING and TERMA A/S signed $15m in contracts for work on Boeing commercial/defense products, incl. 777, CH-47 Chinook. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $72m Huntington Ingalls Industries contract to provide C4ISR system for U.S. Coast Guard cutter Midgett.
Orbital Alliant Techsystems Inc., previously known as Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC of Fort Worth, has been awarded a not to exceed $26.1 million firm-fixed-price contract for support of the Lebanon Cessna 208B Caravan Program, the U.S. Air Force announced May 28. The contractor will provide one commercial-off-the-shelf Cessna 208B Caravan with a Garmin 1000 baseline glass cockpit, avionics package and Pratt & Whitney PT6A-140 turboprop engine.
As controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory here wrapped up a round of hazard-avoidance imagery with the nuclear-powered New Horizons Pluto probe, the mission’s long-standing science team assembled to begin their final setup for the July 14 flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons.
Critical flight information which could contain clues to the cause of the May 9 crash of an Airbus A400M airlifter in Spain has finally been extracted from the aircraft’s flight data recorder.
The Planetary Society’s novel LightSail-A orbital deployment demonstration mission is seeking a computer reboot with help from Mother Nature after a loss of communications was linked to a suspected software problem.
The amphibious assault ship LHA 6 USS America completed a magnetic treatment, known as “deperming,” at Naval Base Point Loma Magnetic Silencing Facility (MSF) in California earlier this month, marking another milestone and first for the aviation-centric vessel.
In the wake of recent official protests by the Chinese over U.S. reconnaissance flights over the South China Sea, the two nations are highlighting their respective positions.
Los Angeles -- Boeing has been awarded the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA, marking a key milestone in the agency’s five-year effort to develop an indigenous U.S. capability to launch American astronauts to low earth orbit.
