This week Congress continues to try to hammer out annual appropriations, with the expiration of the current continuing resolution funding the U.S. government looming on Nov. 21.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $148.4m U.S. Navy contract for F-35B durability testing support for certification of variant to a minimum of 8,000 flight hours/30-year service life.
“This is a terrific endorsement and a transformational capital infusion which enables us to go full speed ahead towards our goals of commercial service and building additional spaceships,” Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides says.
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification worth more than $7 billion before finalizing a much larger bundle of contracts and agreements to buy more than 470 F-35s for delivery between 2020 and 2022, fulfilling the last three years of low-rate production.
Lockheed Martin has started talks about expanding the capability of a helicopter-borne radar decoy and jammer designed initially for defending U.S. Navy ships from missile attacks, the company says.
GE Aviation announced a teaming agreement Oct. 28 to provide its flight-control computing platform on the SuperVolo vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone designed for commercial applications.
U.S. Delta Force special operators and at least one dog were ferried by a mix of eight Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and Boeing H-47 Chinook helicopters to raid a compound housing the founder and leader of ISIS.
Airbus Helicopters is looking to combine artificial intelligence with its manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) technology to address concerns over pilot workload.
Offshore helicopter operator NHV Group has secured a British air operator certificate in preparation for the UK’s impending departure from the European Union.
FAA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed a memorandum of cooperation to identify data that should be shared when space launch and re-entry operations traverse the airspace of different countries.
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY and AIRBUS signed statement of intent on their common interest to use the International Space Station’s Bartolomeo external platform for a “limited number” of scientific missions.
The U.S. Air Force has declared operational the polar-orbiting adjunct to the Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite system known as the Enhanced Polar System.
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“We expect to monetize Forcepoint to create value for our shareholders,” Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy said during a quarterly update from company leaders.
Canadian seaplane airline Harbour Air, working with motor developer MagniX, has completed installation of the electric motor in a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver under its ePlane project to electrify the aircraft.
NASA’s Mars InSight lander is once again hammering its way into the crust of Elysium Planetia, a stretch of smooth plain on the red planet’s northern equatorial belt.
