During his Asia-Pacific tour, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter showed continued U.S. support for Japan’s plans to revise its military stance and the U.S. ally’s importance in the region.
Additional instruments will be switched on in the coming week, but the agency says close flybys of the comet scheduled through the end of April will have to be reworked, in order to avoid a similar loss of navigational control.
Dassault Aviation stock was up almost 4% Friday morning on reports that New Delhi is pressing a compromise in a three-year-old deal to purchase Rafale combat jets, one that would see India spend several billion euros to purchase made-in-France fighters.
“With delivery of our second trainer, the unit will add the capability to provide in-depth avionics troubleshooting, along with test and check procedures,” says Chief Aviation Machinist’s Mate Dan Singer, CNATTU division chief.
U.S. defense contractors will have to notify and seek the endorsement of a Defense Department official regarding some of their self-funded research efforts under the latest implementation of the Pentagon’s Better Buying Power initiative.
The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) has received GPS signals at an altitude of 70,000 km, well above the GPS constellation’s 20,200-km operational altitude, and has generated navigation solutions there based on the GPS signals.
While the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy have been prepping their amphibious ships to accommodate the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the services also are preparing to meet the C5I challenges—and potential—associated with the aircraft.
The U.S. Navy is using the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3 USS Fort Worth to help craft the concept of operations (Conops) for unmanned helicopter use for the fleet’s ships, says Rear Adm. Charlie Williams, commander of U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force 73 (CTF 73).
Convention suggests the Moon formed in the late planet-forming stages of the 4.6-billion-year-old Solar System, when a Mars-sized impactor struck the Earth—the final “giant impact” in an accretion process involving primarily small protoplanets.
The $925 million deal, revealed this week by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), covers 15 AH-1Zs and also includes the purchase of 1,000 Hellfire missiles to arm them.
ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA has SAIC contract for color helmet display and tracking system for evaluation on U.S. Navy’s MH-60S. MEXICAN NAVY ordered (as launch customer) two winglet-equipped C295Ws. SAAB booked follow-on order from HAL, India, for serial production of integrated EW self-protection system for India’s Dhruv helicopter.
William Gerstenmaier, associate NASA administrator for human exploration and operations, is getting a little touchy about quick-fix approaches for going to Mars. “Probably every other day I read another concept with pictures of stick rockets launching to orbit and how they’re going to go to Mars in X amount of time,” he tells the NASA Advisory Council. “We’re kind of stepping back and saying, ‘Let’s get all the big-picture assumptions nailed before we start homing in on a solution,’” he says.
The U.S. Marine Corps is preparing for its first and only operational testing period for the F-35B in advance of declaring initial operational capability for the stealthy, single-engine fighter as early as July.
Human-exploration planners at NASA are in the midst of a detailed new look at what it will take to get humans to Mars, using an “evolvable-Mars” approach that defers some key decisions to avoid getting locked into technology that could become obsolete before it is needed.
The documents, revealed by the VRT television station at the end of March, examine Belgium’s defensive needs out to 2030 and discuss significant defense cuts in a bid to save €1.7 billion ($1.8 billion) on defense by 2019.
The longer-range AARGM-Extended Range version of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile has to fit internally in the F-35A/C versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, according to a U.S. Navy request for information.
Brazilian defense minister Jaques Wagner and his Argentine counterpart, Agustin Rossi, discussed the possible sale of up to 24 Gripen NGs during bilateral meetings in Buenos Aires on April 7, the Brazilian defense ministry announced.
Led by the European Space Agency (ESA), Rosetta has been flying a series of trajectories around Comet 67P since February, allowing the spacecraft to collect scientific data at various distances from the comet.
During recent BMD testing in the Pacific involving ships equipped with the Aegis combat system—which is being honed to better conduct BMD missions—an electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) sensor already in the current inventory was mounted on a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAV and trained on the upper atmosphere, Matlock said during a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $952m Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of 15 AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopters, 1,000 AGM-114R Hellfire II Missiles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support. RAYTHEON has $517.3m U.S. Navy contracts for Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 engineering and manufacturing development (EMD), to prepare program for fiscal 2018 Milestone C decision. Work to be complete by May 2019.
Sen. John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declared he will run for a sixth term during a speech to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce in Phoenix. He touted his home-state work to protect the fleet of A-10 Warthogs stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson and drew contrasts between his foreign policy opinions and the choices made by President Barack Obama. “With a full heart, I ask Arizonans again for their support as I seek re-election to the Senate,” McCain said.
