Seven U.S. senators are introducing 22 joint resolutions to block weapon sales to foreign governments—including Saudi Arabia and the UAE—without congressional OK.
The commercial drone industry has graduated from pilot projects and is poised for rapid growth, the new chairman of the FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee says.
The European Aviation Safety Agency has certified Aireon to provide surveillance services in support of aircraft separations, the first such OK, the company said.
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office contracts extend a nine-year-old relationship between the U.S. intelligence community and Maxar, the parent of DigitalGlobe, and expand the NRO’s commercial partnerships by adding BlackSky Global and Planet.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will try to accelerate its restructuring program to achieve greater profit in preparation for possible partial privatization, according to company sources.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS INC. is expanding industrial ties in Canada with formation of TEAM SKYGUARDIAN CANADA coalition supporting MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAV.
Virgin Orbit could begin conducting horizontal space launch services from mainland UK in the early 2020s with the support of start-up funding from the UK Space Agency and local authorities in Cornwall.
The marketplace for urban air mobility for the masses is not expected to take off for several more years, but it could become a multibillion-dollar enterprise, new consultant studies suggest.
NASA’s Health Research Program is eager to learn more about astronaut health on long-duration space missions by enlarging the number of subjects and improving data collection protocols.
Honeywell on June 3 unveiled a compact flight-control computer designed to drive electric actuators and dynamically adjust flight surfaces and motors of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.
The FAA is working with drone service providers to develop data use standards by this summer that represent a step toward having third parties provide remote identification (ID) services for small unmanned aircraft.
House authorizers propose fencing 25% of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment’s budget until the Pentagon presents a plan to rectify problems in the F-35 supply chain.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, has been awarded $66,274,215 for modification P00007 to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-18-C-1009) to exercise an option for operation and maintenance services in support of the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator Program,
This week the U.S. Congress resumes its work on appropriations, while House authorizers will mark up their version of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill.
PRATT & WHITNEY has $3.2b U.S. Navy contract for 56 F135-PW-100 engines for the Air Force, 10 for the Navy, 125 for non-DOD/FMS customers; 24 F135-PW-600 engines for the Marine Corps, and 18 for non-DOD/FMS customers.
The U.S. Air Force on May 31 completed the last and largest demonstration of a two-year program to integrate a long-range naval mine on a Boeing B-52H.
Republican members “fundamentally disagree” with policy decisions made in the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee mark and view it as a departure from bipartisan tradition.
A key House panel is authorizing economic order quantity for the Lockheed Martin F-35 in the hope of promoting cost savings for the fifth-generation fighter while requesting cost transparency for Block 4.
