Named Dreadnought, the submarine would be an order of magnitude larger than typical special operations submersibles and several times smaller and less costly than full-sized diesel-electric submarines now on the market.
“Over the lives of these contracts, we’re going to be paying less for energy than we do today using traditional sources of energy,” U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
India will soon finalize a platform for developing its indigenous Airborne Warning and Control Systems Aircraft (AWACS), with Airbus Defense and Space apparently emerging as the sole bidder with its A330 widebody aircraft.
They also made other preparations for changes to the station’s U.S. segment this year that will clear the way for the arrival of Boeing and SpaceX-launched capsules carrying astronauts.
The new spacecraft, both of which are to be launched atop Falcon 9 rockets in 2017, include the SES-14 hybrid propulsion satellite to be built by Airbus Defense and Space, and the SES-16/GovSat spacecraft contracted to Orbital/ATK.
Indian defense ministry aircraft designers have frozen the configuration of a proposed medium-weight Indian fighter that they expect to fly early in the 2020s.
Developed and built for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, Sentinel-2A is designed to image the Earth’s landmass from an orbit at 786 km (488.4 mi.) altitude for a design life of 7-12 years.
Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.
Brazilian light aircraft company Novaer is looking for further investment to develop its new modular training aircraft for the commercial and military market.
The company, a subsidiary of MDA Corp of Canada, is best known for supplying large commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellites but is actively exploring new territory, company President John Celli says.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program estimates a four-five month delay in delivering the aircraft’s fully functional software package and is working to recover that slippage.
To fulfill its NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, the company says it is on track with plans to use a United Launch Alliance Atlas V to lift its next Cygnus pressurized cargo carrier to the station this fall.
Russian Helicopters has delivered 141 Mi-17 V5 helicopters so far, since India ordered 80 Mi-17 V5 helos from Russia in 2008 for about $1.2 billion, followed by an additional order of 71 helos in 2012.
As the Newport News Shipbuilding unit of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) works on completing the CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the company and U.S. Navy are working out further contract details for the building of CVN 79.
