The authorization for the possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) valued at $128.1 million came after the State Department accepted a letter of request from the Kazakhstan government.
NATO is hoping to declare an initial operating capability for its Alliance Ground Surveillance fleet of Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawks in early 2021 after plans were delayed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Saab is studying life extension options for Sweden’s Gripen fighter fleet after the country’s government approved plans to keep the type in service beyond 2030.
A new contract to replace five CC-150 multirole tanker-transports operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force has started a process to qualify companies to enter a competition.
The U.S. Department of Commerce reported on Dec. 21 that the Bureau of Industry and Security would add nearly 40 Russian companies to a new “Military End User” list limiting their access to U.S. technologies.
Aerospace supplier Moog has acquired avionics provider Genesys Aerosystems of Mineral Wells, Texas, from McNally Capital and Genesys managers for about $77.7 million, the companies announced late Dec. 21.
Axiom Space, the space station startup, on Dec. 22 announced plans to create a 14-acre headquarters campus at Houston Spaceport to train private astronauts and begin production of its Axiom Station.
Lawmakers are becoming more stringent with how the Pentagon can spend future funding, included on the services’ unfunded requirements list, according to a joint explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill.
Congress is allowing the U.S. Air Force to say farewell to 17 B-1Bs and the RQ-4 Block 20 fleet, but is blocking the retirement of KC-135s, KC-10s and A-10s in the latest fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill.
The latest challenge from Raytheon again risks delaying the schedule for fielding the first tranche of the SDA’s Tracking Layer of missile-warning satellites in low Earth orbit, but agency officials say the program remains on track.
Despite the U.S. Air Force demonstrating earlier this month how a piece of the Advanced Battle Management System might work, the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill would drastically reduce the program’s funding.
The Space Launch System’s Exploration Upper Stage that is to support NASA’s Artemis initiative goal of establishing a permanent human presence at the Moon has cleared the Critical Design Review phase of its development.
UK start-up Faradair Aerospace has partnered with Honeywell and MagniX on development of its multirole Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft, designed to carry 18 passengers or three LD3 cargo containers.
In an ignominious end for the fleet, the five Sentinels “are not for reuse” the defense ministry stated, as it called for expressions of interest in the disposal of the radar reconnaissance platform.
Competitors wasted little time taking advantage of the U.S. Commerce Department announcement that it had added Chinese drone manufacturer DJI to its export blacklist.
Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billion cash takeover of aerospace and defense propulsion stalwart Aerojet Rocketdyne–already a key supplier–fits well within Lockheed and will secure the Pentagon’s leading contractor as a hypersonics, rocket and military space leader for decades to come.
Easy Aerial and the U.S. Air Force’s 60th Security Forces Sqdn. started the first automated drone-based perimeter security and monitoring system for a U.S. Air Force installation, Travis AFB in California, on Dec. 11.
Passage of the $696 billion spending bill for fiscal 2021 completes the final appropriations cycle of the Trump administration with a slight uptick in funding for the DOD alone, which received $693.3 billion in fiscal 2020.
With both the platforms and weapons for the future nuclear enterprise set, the U.S. Navy and Air Force are now plotting the future of the airborne command and control systems.
NASA and prime contractor Boeing are probing the premature shutdown of a simulated countdown sequence during the Dec. 20 Wet Dress Rehearsal for the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
Jaunt Air Mobility has signed a memorandum of understanding with propulsion developer VerdeGo Aero to study a hybrid-electric version of Jaunt’s planned Journey urban air taxi.
Nanoracks’ commercial airlock, which was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month aboard the first launch of SpaceX’s upgraded cargo version of the Dragon capsule, has been successfully removed from the freighter’s unpressurized trunk and berthed to the port side of the orbital outpost’s U.S. segment Tranquility module.
The agreement on the all-cash transaction includes a $5 per share, pre-closing special dividends to Aerojet’s shareholders, reducing the post-dividend value of the deal to $4.6 billion.
The missile forms a critical element of the Pentagon’s fast-track plan to develop a range of high-speed stand-off strike and cruise weapons to counter new Chinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities.
