A draft of the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) mark of the fiscal 2021 defense funding bill, released July 7, would give the Pentagon $9.3 billion for 91 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, an additional 12 aircraft above President Trump’s budget request.
Dubai has issued legislation regulating the use of drones and supporting an initiative to build an ecosystem for cargo, passenger and other operations by unmanned aircraft in the emirate.
Legislators’ first draft of a fiscal 2021 budget for NASA scales back the Trump administration’s requested 12% increase to current spending levels of $22.6 billion, which would moot a 2024 crewed landing on Moon.
Austria is to phase out its aging Saab 105 jet trainers without a replacement as ministers attempt to figure out the country’s future airspace surveillance plans.
The Japanese defense ministry proposes to fly the first prototype of the Next Generation Fighter (NGF) in 2028 and begin deliveries to the air force seven years later.
With plans to operate as well as produce its electric air taxis, German startup Lilium has unveiled its thinking on modular vertiports that could start small, but scale up quickly as the market takes off.
NASA hopes to have the Artemis Accords ready for signature by year’s end, according to Mike Gold, NASA’s acting administrator for the agency’s Office of International and Interagency Agreements.
Inmarsat is developing a “smart pipe” satellite communications (satcom) infrastructure for the Boeing 777X that independently allocates bandwidth for multiple, disparate applications.
Michael Griffin, U.S. defense undersecretary for Research and Engineering, leaves behind a new model for advanced technology development in the Pentagon that seeks to deliver capabilities years faster than the system he inherited.
In response to a request by Indonesia of a potential sale, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on July 6 that Indonesia is eligible to import the U.S. Marine Corps version of the twin-engine tiltrotor.
The Serbian government has lifted the lid on its new armed unmanned air systems sourced from China, the first nation in the Balkans to acquire such a capability.
NASA astronaut and cancer researcher Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA from space, is hopeful for a resurgence in science and technology activities aboard the International Station when she returns to the ISS in October.
The 48-month engineering and manufacturing development phase will include production of up to 318 Precision Strike Missiles as the first tranche of a Lockheed Martin production run of 2,422.
Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is the first company to receive a contract under a new DARPA program to build an X-plane designed around active flow control.
