Such a requirement would “impede” on air-defense missions and operations already performed by the Aegis combat systems aboard Navy destroyers and cruisers, a Navy official says.
Members of the new senior management team at aerospace and industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp. (UTC) might be old, but they are pleasing Wall Street with movements toward growth.
Gulfstream continues to see strong demand for its products. Sales in last year’s fourth quarter, in fact, were higher than in any quarter in more than three years, the company said.
Noting that the 747-8 is the only platform "manufactured in the United States [that] when fully missionized meets the necessary capabilities established to execute the presidential support mission," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said competition will be sought at the subsystem level for the program.
The Scorpion military twin-engine jet is receiving significant interest from potential international customers, Textron Chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly says.
Troubled Italian defense and aerospace group Finmeccanica will focus on its core businesses of aerospace, defense and space in a bid to return to profitability.
An “advanced aeronautics” prototyping project, including airframes and propulsion, is one of a number of new and accelerated technology projects in the fiscal 2016 defense budget, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work.
The U.S. Navy has some gaps to plug for the ship-defense testing of its LHA amphibious assault ship USS America, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says.
The U.S. Navy’s MK-54 torpedo is coming up short for antisubmarine warfare missions, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says in its recently released annual report.
The effort to prepare the six-person orbiting lab for dockings by Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX crewed Dragon capsules will require an estimated seven spacewalks and hardware deliveries on most of the five commercial resupply missions remaining this year.
Five teams competing for the Google Lunar XPrize will share $5.25 million in prize advances awarded for “key technological advancements” en route to robotic landings and operations on the surface of the Moon.
Observations made with NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that the formation of Earth-like planets around stars similar to the Sun has been under way since the earliest era of the universe.
The planned merger of Orbital Sciences Corp. (OSC) and the Aerospace and Defense Groups of Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) is set to close on Feb. 9, following approval of the deal Jan. 27 by stockholders of both companies.
The Pentagon has finished a secret analysis of alternatives (AoA) for the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) project, a cruise missile to replace today’s AGM-86 Air-Launched Cruise Missile
A winter 2013 Pentagon appeal to Congress to equip Yemen’s lagging air force with four “precision strike” aircraft signaled a bold stride toward meeting one of the core Yemeni objectives laid out in President Barack Obama’s June 2011 National Strategy for Counterterrorism.
Airbus Helicopters enjoyed a record year of deliveries for its heavy helicopters in 2014, but is facing a continuing downturn in its light helicopter line.
