Four companies have been selected to build prototypes for the Skyborg family of autonomous and attritable unmanned aircraft systems, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on July 23.
A pair of French lawmakers are proposing a radical stimulus package to help the French aerospace and defense industry weather the novel coronavirus pandemic and likely economic crisis.
The Senate on July 23 voted 86-14 in favor of a $740 billion fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, setting the stage for committee staff to begin negotiating a conference deal with the House before entering August recess.
The Trump administration’s National Space Council on July 23 released a 17-page report outlining its approach to deep-space exploration and development.
Keeping two hypersonic defense programs on track throughout the decade faces a set of daunting technical challenges even as the Missile Defense Agency juggles other major priorities, said a new report by the US Government Accountability Office.
The Sea Launch space program, halted by company owner Vladislav Filev after his main S7 Airlines business was devastated by COVID-19-related flight restrictions until better times, will now continue with new backing from the Russian government.
The U.S. Air Force is considering five candidate locations to call home for a future F-35 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) training center that can accommodate up to 36 jets.
Russia’s MS-15 Progress resupply capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on July 23, less than 3 1/2 hr. after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The U.S. Navy is making incremental progress on one of the USS Gerald R. Ford’s key new technologies: installing a sixth advanced weapons elevator (AWE) designed to efficiently move ordnance to the flight deck.
A Swedish medevac PC-24 jet completed its first flight July 22, marking the first of six Pilatus PC-24s destined for the Swedish Air Ambulance organization.
British lawmakers have expressed concern that the government’s decision to invest in the failed OneWeb satellite constellation ignored input from advisers.
With the goal of demonstrating zero-carbon flight across the Atlantic within a generation, the UK government’s Jet Zero Council held its first meeting on July 22.
A new facility to support the UK’s fleet of P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has been handed over by Boeing to the UK’s defense materiel agency, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S).
A Long March 5 rocket launched the first all-Chinese mission to Mars on July 23, placing the 5-metric-ton Tianwen 1 spacecraft directly into an Earth-Mars transfer orbit.
For five years, Lockheed Martin delivered F-35 spare parts that were not ready for installation and the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is seeking compensation.
Pratt & Whitney is campaigning for an F-15EX engine competition, but an 18-month integration process for the F100-PW-129 revealed in a new U.S. Air Force acquisition document kept the company out of consideration for Lot 1 production.
Brazilian-U.S. light aircraft maker Texas Aircraft Manufacturing is collaborating with the UK’s Oxis Energy to develop an all-electric training aircraft powered by advanced lithium-sulfur batteries.
Air Combat Command (ACC) released an “invitation to propose” to companies for the Reforge Proof of Concept program last week, with bids expected based on the T-50 and M-346 advanced jet trainers.
Industry and government discussions for the development of a UK-led future combat air system, Tempest, have moved to the trilateral level, industry leaders have announced.
An international team of astronomers has directly imaged a very young, Sun-like star with multiple large planets—a first that may help astronomers better understand how our Solar System’s planets formed and evolved.
