NASA’s proposed $18.5 billion budget for fiscal 2016 and its long-range vision of delivering human explorers to the Martian surface bodes especially well for the agency’s Johnson Space Center.
Saudi Arabia is the first export customer for the MBDA Meteor missile, having signed a contract worth more than $1 billion for the weapon, according to French media.
Not only is the Navy deploying a higher percentage of its ships and associated aircraft to the region, the service is also planning to put its most advanced assets there and invest more heavily in regional bases and facilities.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) does not expect to take delivery of the Thales Alenia Space-built Gokturk-1 high-resolution optical imaging satellite until midyear at the earliest, when it is expected to undergo final assembly, integration and test at TAI’s new satellite processing facility in Ankara.
Raytheon has not decided whether to bid for the U.S. Army’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program now that the long-awaited request for proposals (RFP) for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) has been released.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2016 budget request includes money to buy Seahawk helicopters that the Navy had cut from last year’s request when the carrier program was uncertain.
The back-to-back accidents that afflicted the budding commercial spaceflight industry last year have triggered more interest on Capitol Hill in how the U.S. government will regulate that industry in the years ahead, according to the chairman of the House subcommittee that authorizes civil-space spending.
TAC Air has purchased the facilities of Central Flying Service at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (LIT) in Little Rock, Arkansas, the company said.
“FVL is probably going to deliver in the 2035 time frame,” Major Gen. Robert “Bo” Dyess, the Army’s director of Force Development (G-8), told reporters.
At issue is growing concern among defense planners that advances in hypersonic glide vehicles from China and Russia pose a looming threat to the U.S. and its allies.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is "very close to approval" for the strategy to procure the so-called Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) from a national industry team managed by the agency, says director Vice Adm. James Syring.
The twin-jet, T-tail transport is the largest aircraft ever built in South America, and has been developed as a C-130/KC-130 replacement for the Brazilian air force.
With an almost $100 million boost to its fiscal 2015 budget from Congress and a 2016 request that is $20 million up on what the Obama administration originally sought last year, NASA’s aeronautics leadership believes its restructured research program is off to a strong start.
The U.S. Navy has reduced its planned buy of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter by almost one-third over fiscal 2016-2020, while committing almost $800 million to new standoff weapon developments.
The U.S. Navy's fiscal 2016 R&D budget request of $17.9 billion is being buoyed by investments in the Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, small surface combatant force and executive helicopter program.
As the U.S. Navy starts the research and development (R&D) to design new frigates based on modified Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designs, the service continues to fund LCS programs as more of the vessels get ready to enter the fleet.
The first canister-based trial of India’s Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully carried out for the missile’s full range of more than 5,000 km from Wheeler Island off the eastern Odisha coast on Jan. 31.
