The Pentagon is creating a new prototyping fund to support the Joint Warfighting Concept, and what makes this effort different is the goal of bringing integrated capability to the joint force instead of delivering individual technologies to the services.
Belgium needs to raise its defense spending and develop a more “proactive and anticipatory” strategic culture if it is to remain a reliable ally, a review of the country’s Strategic Vision has determined.
A UK-funded research program is developing a hybrid hydrogen and electric propulsion architecture that could offer a stepwise approach to introducing cryogenic and superconducting technology while easing the path to certification of the technology.
Pentagon Kicks Off AI, Data Acceleration Initiative The Pentagon is launching a new AI and Data Acceleration effort to quicken Joint All-Domain Command and Control development, according to a June 21 memo.
Three spacewalks in nine days did the trick, as astronauts succeeded in installing the second of the first two of six planned Roll Out Solar Arrays on the International Space Station to provide more electricity for science and technology activities as the orbital science lab ages.
Northrop Grumman has delivered the spacecraft bus to support the 2023 launch of a satellites that will demonstrate a military-only alternative to the Global Positioning System, according to the Air Force Research Laboratory.
As Airbus evaluates liquid hydrogen as a possible route to zero-emission commercial aviation by the mid-2030s, it has begun a research program to explore the potential of cryogenically cooled electric propulsion for large civil aircraft.
Special mission Beechcraft King Air 300 twin-turboprop aircraft used by the U.S. Army has surpassed 50,000 flight hours, Textron Aviation has announced.
Nearly 20 years after contract award, the carrier air wing selected to ferry the F-35C for its inaugural deployment aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) has completed the qualifications required for future operations.
Germany looks set to become the latest customer for Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, after German lawmakers approved funding for an interim buy of the platform.
Embraer subsidiary Eve Urban Air Mobility has agreed to supply Blade with 60,000 flight hours a year of service in Southern California and the West Coast beginning in 2026.
Estes Industries, famous among model rocket enthusiasts for the company’s solid propellant motors, has spun off a new company sporting lineage to Aurora Flight Sciences that aims to provide engineering support for larger launchers.
NASA has received backing for the agency’s plan to adopt a proposed new space radiation career exposure limit that would likely require a waiver for multiyear, roundtrip missions to Mars using current shielding and propulsion technologies.
Bell is formally transitioning the V-280 from the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program to focus on the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft.
Congress can anticipate a detailed cost and schedule assessment for NASA’s efforts to return human explorers to the Moon under the Biden administration’s version of the Artemis initiative to establish a sustained human lunar presence and prepare for expeditions to Mars by the end of this year, agency Administrator Bill Nelson says.
France has deployed fighters to the Pacific island of Tahiti for the first time as part of a demonstration of French air power in the Indo-Pacific region.
The U.S. Space Development Agency is poised to send its first five small experimental satellites and payload on orbit, with the intent to validate space-based laser communications, battle management and target custody technology.
The Indonesian Navy appears to have taken delivery of its first Boeing Insitu ScanEagle 2 remotely piloted air vehicle after an example was shown at an event to commemorate 65 years of Indonesian naval aviation.
