DARPA plans to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system that can be assembled on orbit to expand U.S. operating presence in cislunar space.
What the JAXA Hayabusa 2 science team members have witnessed from their spacecraft at the asteroid Ryugu is making them more eager to study samples of its surface and subsurface.
European missile manufacturer MBDA says it has no plans to adjust missile work shares despite the export challenges of Germany’s arms embargo on Saudi Arabia.
Demoing an aircraft that can fly and maneuver with no moving control surfaces, instead using active flow control, is the objective of a new program DARPA plans to begin in fiscal 2020.
Engineers from BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and missile manufacturer MBDA have begun work to integrate the Meteor beyond-visual range air-to-air missile and the SPEAR III network-enabled missile onto the vertical takeoff and landing version of the F-35.
Embraer’s John Slattery will be the first CEO of the Boeing-Embraer commercial aircraft JV that the aircraft manufacturers expect to launch by year’s end.
Under DARPA's Rspace program, BAE is developing software decision aids to help air operations staff assess an air battle plan, monitor progress in real time and continuously project the outcome as it unfolds.
GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT has $2b U.S. Navy contract for Long Lead Time Material and Economic Ordering Quantity material for fiscal 2019-2023 Virginia class submarines (SSNs 802 – 811).
A small, hand-launched unmanned aircraft flew for 171 min. in late February powered by a structural battery built into the wing—almost double the 91 min. the 6-ft.-span aircraft was able to stay aloft on previous flights using conventional batteries and wings.
The U.S. Air Force plans to deploy a new version of Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) missile on the F-35A.
The USAF’s new Skyborg project has a five-year deadline to produce a “fighter-like” prototype of an unmanned aircraft that uses a software-controlled “brain.”
The Israeli Ministry of Defense successfully completed a series of intercept tests of an advanced version of the David’s Sling long-range rocket interceptor.
What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft observed on its flyby of the distant Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule—especially the object’s strange shape —has sent scientists back to the drawing board.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego,, is awarded an $89,534,733 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide sustainment and engineering services in support of the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System.
