The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, a $72,225,064 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to exercise options for Design Agent and Engineering Support Services for the Rolling Airframe Missile MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program, the Pentagon said.
Lockheed Martin has transitioned numerous F-35 suppliers to longer-term, performance-based logistics contracts and master repair agreements to increase supply availability and reduce sustainment costs, the company says.
Australia has operationally deployed a P-8A maritime patroller for the first time to a Malaysian base for patrols in the South China Sea and north Indian Ocean.
Two members of California’s congressional delegation have expressed skepticism to Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan concerning the Space Development Agency.
Indonesia has ordered three more Type 209 diesel-electric submarines worth $1.02 billion from South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.
Pergravis LLC, Tampa, Florida, has been awarded an estimated $73,220,000 firm-fixed-price contract for power converting and continuation interfacing equipment emergency maintenance/preventative maintenance.
This week the U.S. Army’s Quad-A aviation summit is underway in Nashville, Tennessee, with a keynote Tuesday from U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff James C. McConville.
The Sikorsky/Boeing team must modify the SB-1 Defiant to achieve the Marine Corps’ goal of 270 kt. for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) that will replace the Bell UH-1Y Venom fleet, industry officials say.
Israel Aerospace Industries has completed a series of tests with its Heron-1 UAS fitted with an advanced sonobuoy that will enable anti-submarine missions.
U.S. Air Force F-35As arrived at Al Dhafra Air Base in the U.A.E. on April 15 for the type to begin its first deployment to support combat operations in the Middle East.
Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.
Celebrations over landing all three of the Falcon Heavy core stages that lofted the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into orbit on April 11 were short-lived: High seas toppled the center stage.
Offshore helicopter operator Bristow Group says it has reached agreements with lenders to delay debt repayments as the company fights to stave off bankruptcy.
A spate of inflight malfunctions involving the DJI Matrice quadcopter that started late last year has generated recent safety investigations in the UK and a safety notice from Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority.
