Two Aegis Ashore batteries will give ballistic-missile defense to Japan at 16% of the cost of destroyers performing the mission, figures from the Ministry of Defense show.
Retired longtime Rockwell executive George W. Jeffs, who was among the chief corporate architects of the U.S. space program throughout the Apollo and into the shuttle era, has died. He was 94.
A U.S. startup is preparing to fly a full-scale, five-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft that is powered not by batteries or hybrid-electric propulsion, but by hydrogen fuel cells.
A U.S. Army artillery battery will receive a transport-erector-launcher (TEL) for a hypersonic weapon in late fiscal 2021 and fire the weapon for the first time in 2022.
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The U.S. Army is seeking sources for integrating the GE Aviation XT901 into the design for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Competitive Prototype (FARA-CP) program.
A senior Pentagon official cautions against restricting the Defense Department’s (DOD) reprogramming authority because it may make it difficult for the military to respond to a shifting security environment.
The unprecedented political crisis in Israel that has caused the country’s parliament to disperse only one month after being elected may delay billions of dollars in planned purchases of U.S. aircraft.
GE Aviation expects to resume work on a new 3,000shp turboshaft engine for U.S. Army helicopters after a U.S. government watchdog agency rejected a competitor’s protest over the contract award.
Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio will host the Lockheed Martin F-35 Hybrid Product Support Integrator organization, which is integral to the fighter aircraft’s sustainment.
