BAE Systems Ship Repair, Norfolk, Virginia, has been awarded a $175,047,658 firm-fixed-price contract for the execution of USS Vicksburg (CG 69) fiscal 2020 modernization period (MODPRD).
Back from its year-end recess, the U.S. House this week is expected to introduce a War Powers Resolution to limit President Trump’s military options concerning Iran.
Boeing on Jan. 6 provided more details on how the 737 MAX production pause will progress, while major program supplier Spirit AeroSystems said it will begin accepting “voluntary” layoffs.
Weeks into a rash of reported drone sightings in eastern Colorado and part of Nebraska, the FAA on Jan. 6 lacked an explanation for the reports or whether drones were actually involved.
The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.9 billion contract on Jan. 6 to maintain the global Lightning II fleet, support training and expand capacity for producing spares and repairing components.
Publicly traded shares of aerospace and defense companies around most of the Western world ended 2019 about 34% above where they began a year ago, and 6% better off than major stock market indices, Wall Street analysts said in year-end reports.
The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.
Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.
A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 18,631 new, western-developed engines will be delivered for new military aircraft or as part of re-engining processes.
