Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan characterizes the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request as a “masterpiece” budget, but the proposal already is receiving blowback from lawmakers.
The Pentagon would focus on developing payload sensors in fiscal 2020 for a future satellite constellation intended to track hypersonic glide vehicles to combat China and Russia, a senior official said.
U.S. defense officials have confirmed a proposal to buy at least 144 new F-15EXs, and potentially scores more of the latest version of Boeing’s strike fighter.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Corp. have agreed to accelerate cooperative efforts to develop a pressurized, fuel-cell-powered lunar rover for human explorers.
DOD would save $3.4 billion in procurement funds and $1 billion yearly in the operations and maintenance account by retiring the USS Harry Truman early.
The Marines want to buy fewer F-35Bs in fiscal 2020 because a future backlog was identified for the aircraft’s C-model, the service told Aerospace DAILY.
Norway’s Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace has received its first export order for the Joint Strike Missile, with a contract from Japan for deliveries to arm its F-35As.
U.S. defense officials are accepting an overall reduction in aircraft unit procurement in the fiscal 2020 budget request, as interest rises in the next generation of hypersonic, fixed-wing and rotary-wing capabilities.
The Trump administration's "masterpiece" defense budget request already is receiving blowback from lawmakers who say the nascent request is “divorced from reality.”
NASA’s fiscal 2020 budget request supports the ongoing X-57 Maxwell electric-propulsion and X-59 QueSST low-boom supersonic flight demonstrators, but some within the agency are concerned about future X-planes.
Australia could decide this year whether and how to proceed with a mid-life update of its six Boeing 737 Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft, according to Boeing.
The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office hopes to gain airline maintenance best practices to reduce sustainment costs and improve readiness of its C-5 Galaxy fleet.
The March 13 isssue of Aerospace Daily & Defense Report may be delivered later than usual to allow for our comprehensive coverage of the Trump administration’s fiscal 2020 defense budget proposal.
The U.S. Air Force resumed accepting deliveries of KC-46 tankers on March 11 after a 12-day hiatus caused by the discovery of foreign object debris on completed aircraft. on Feb. 28, followed by a sixth delivery on March 1.
The Trump administration’s $21 billion, 2020 NASA budget proposal seeks to achieve a 2028 return to the lunar surface with astronauts while working with global partners to reach Mars and other deep-space destinations.
