Longview Aviation Capital Corp. has suspended production on its De Havilland Dash 8-400 and Viking Twin Otter 400 programs “until further notice” and laid off about 1,000 workers, the company announced.
With the defense industrial base formally declared "critical infrastructure," the Defense Department is emphasizing the supply chain's "special responsibility" to maintain schedules.
Oil-and-gas helicopter operator Bristow Group has converted three of its helicopters to perform evacuation missions for oil workers with suspected cases of novel coronavirus.
Two lawmakers are making a bipartisan plea to House Appropriations defense subcommittee leadership for the purchase of two MQ-4C Tritons in fiscal 2021.
A new, low-cost turbojet designed to power future generations of swarming cruise missiles has completed flight testing, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on March 19.
U.S. defense primes are increasingly securing billion-dollar sums of new debt financing as companies large and small manage a liquidity crisis stemming from the COVID-19 virus and the collapse of air travel.
Organizers of July’s Farnborough International Airshow and the Royal International Air Tattoo have decided to cancel the events in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Trump administration UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned from aerospace and defense giant Boeing’s board of directors in opposition to the company’s $60 billion bailout bid, the company said March 19.
Aircraft repairs continue as normal despite the novel coronavirus scare at the three sprawling Air Logistics Centers (ALCs), where about 25,000 workers maintain the bulk of the U.S. Air Force aircraft fleet.
Representatives of smaller aviation suppliers are pushing for COVID-19 pandemic-related financial relief and prompting eligible companies to tap into newly available government programs, such as Small Business Administration (SBA) loans.
Launching the Mars 2020 rover, recently named Perseverance, this summer remains among NASA’s highest priorities, despite agency-wide shutdowns of its facilities due to health concerns over the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program, which provides ground processing and launch facilities for the integrated Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, is in better shape now than when the program was last audited in 2016, but the agency needs to improve cross-program integration and testing, the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) said March 19.
The UK declared the F-35 operational even though the fleet was suffering from availability, infrastructure, logistics and security issues, auditors have revealed.
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is confident in the well-being of the International Space Station (ISS) and ongoing efforts to soon resume full staffing of the 15-nation orbiting science lab with launches from U.S. soil.
New research based on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission has revealed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu is composed of a sand-like, cohesionless material, making it essentially a “rubble pile” in space.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is planning for its Poland-based Aegis Ashore complex to be operational by 2022, four years later than originally planned.
