The package-delivery unmanned aircraft for which Amazon received FAA experimental certification on March 19 is already obsolete and no longer being flown, the online retail giant says, lamenting the time required to gain approval for outdoor testing in the U.S.
India’s first Mars mission has successfully completed six months in space and is expected to stay in orbit for another six months to explore the red planet and its atmosphere.
As the U.S. Army retires its Bell OH-58B Kiowa Warriors to save money, the first unit to take over the armed scout role using a combination of Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and Textron Systems RQ-7Bv2 Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft has been formed.
The Defense Department’s most recent Selection Acquisition Report (SAR) shows two Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breaches to their current or original Acquisition Program Baseline (APB).
Malaysia’s long-running requirement for a MiG-29 replacement is expected to turn into an order in the country’s 2016-20 planning period, with the Saab Gripen looking like a prospect.
The cost-saving CubeSat movement could begin a deep-space migration by looking to a pair of planetary science and astronomy missions based in cislunar space and exploiting low-energy transfers from Earth along weak stability boundaries, according to two commercial advocates.
In response to issues raised in a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the U.S. Navy says it its reducing weight in its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet.
With the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act report requirement for maritime security strategy placing an emphasis on the South China Sea and East China Sea, some senators want a better of idea of what the U.S. plans to do about Chinese actions in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
UNMANNED SYSTEMS CAUCUS was re-launched on Capitol Hill by Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) to educate lawmakers on commercial applications of unmanned systems, industry trends and regulatory issues. AIRBUS HELICOPTERS’ H145 (formerly EC145 T2) is making Brazilian debut in month-long demonstration tour visiting São Paulo, Curitiba, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro; will be shown to civilian, offshore, government, military operators.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, may try to loosen a congressional restriction on purchases of Russian-made RD-180 engines used to send military and intelligence satellites into orbit on Atlas V launch vehicles. Last year, in response to Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, lawmakers cut off the purchase of additional RD-180 engines. Congress also directed the military to start an engine-replacement program to find a permanent replacement for the RD-180 by 2019.
U.S. astronauts could be flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on Russian Soyuz capsules as late as the end of 2020, under a modification in NASA’s previously announced plans to procure six more Soyuz seats as a backup to the U.S.-built commercial crew vehicles now under development.
Helicopter manufacturers expect Malaysia to order rotorcraft for at least search and rescue (SAR) missions in 2016-2020, possibly adding military functions to the requirement.
While the U.S. Navy still expects delivery of the CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier in about a year, there is still one potential showstopper: successful testing of the advanced arresting gear (AAG).
A new diesel generator simulator recently delivered to Pearl Harbor naval facilities by the TechSolutions program at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will help train sailors working on the U.S. Navy’s most advanced attack submarine generators, Navy officials say.
