Even the U.S. Navy’s new Ohio Replacement Program ballistic-missile submarines, with designs focused on low noise, could be vulnerable to new detection techniques, according to lead writer and former submariner Bryan Clark.
The upgrade will provide a 20% increase in thrust level, enabling the Falcon 9 to haul extra fuel needed to support ongoing development of a reusable core stage, says Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer at Luxembourg fleet operator SES.
Michael Gazarik, the first head of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, will leave the agency at the end of February to become the director of Ball Aerospace’s Office of Technology.
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Earth observatory was successfully removed from the fifth SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule berthed to the International Space Station and installed outside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module early Jan. 22.
With the next defense budget apparently weeks away from being released, there seems to be little doubt that the U.S. Navy will stick to its guns with its current shipbuilding strategy to rebuild its fleet.
Senior Nigerian air force (NAF) officers say they are troubled by equipment and training issues as the air arm uses its helicopters to take on the insurgent group Boko Haram.
While the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin keep to on-time schedules and costs for Aegis combat system upgrades, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says more and in many cases better testing is needed to validate the work.
U.S. Navy officials say they could not be more pleased with Raytheon’s work on the proposed air-and-missile-defense radar suite, but the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation says the current testing fails to prove the system can do the job.
The reassessment of the potential $1 billion program expected to take four months. It is unclear if the service will reassess existing bids or allow competitors to submit amended proposals.
On the heels of Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address, the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday morning in Washington with Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski testifying on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy. Also that morning, the House Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on the status of Iranian nuclear talks with Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and David Cohen, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department.
While the U.S. Navy continues to tout the benefits of the CVN Ford-class aircraft carriers, the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) still questions the readiness and reliability of some of the technological advancements of the ships and the service’s testing plan.
India will conduct the first test of the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in March, using an Indian air force Su-30MKI fighter, according to an official involved in the project.
President Barack Obama extended best wishes to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly during the president's State of the Union address, as Kelly prepares to launch to the International Space Station this spring for a U.S. record-setting one-year stay.
The U.S. Navy is coming to grips with how to conduct anti-submarine warfare (ASW) from high altitude as it transitions from the turboprop Lockheed P-3C Orion to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, a derivative of the 737 commercial airliner.
Initial operational test and evaluation of the Boeing KC-46A tanker is "likely" to slip by at least one year according to the just-released fiscal 2014 annual report on the program from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
The “distributed lethality” operational concept for U.S. surface warships touted earlier this month during the Surface Navy Association National Symposium is tailor-made for Asia-Pacific operations, the Navy’s commander of Naval Surface Forces says.
