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Sep 29, 2023
The settlement includes a $1.539 million payment to whistleblowers who sued Boeing on behalf of the U.S. Defense Department for allegedly making false claims.
Sep 28, 2023
The Marines awarded a contract to a Malloy-Survice Engineering team in April to deliver 189 Tactical Resupply UAS.
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Aircraft & Propulsion
Oct 02, 2023
The milestone clears the Joint Program Office to seek a decision on full-rate production status for the family of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters.
Oct 02, 2023
Slovakia has 14 Block 70-model fighters on order to replace its Soviet-era Mikoyan MiG-29s that were withdrawn last year and transferred to Ukraine.
Oct 02, 2023
The two-seat Rafale B was formally transferred on Oct. 2 during a ceremony at the Mont-de-Marsan air base, where Croatian pilots are being trained on the type.
Oct 02, 2023
Leonardo Helicopters says it has handed over the 56th and final aircraft, a NATO Frigate Helicopter version of the NH90 for the Italian Navy.
Sep 29, 2023
The request for information published on Sept. 29 by the Air Force tells industry to assume a CCA program will be launched in the first quarter of fiscal 2025.
Space
Oct 03, 2023
The next mission, Chang’e 6, which is intended to return the first samples from the lunar far side, is expected to launch in May.
Oct 02, 2023
Astroscale Japan has received an $80 million grant from the Japanese government to “image and diagnose” a large, defunct satellite.
Oct 02, 2023
Congress has authorized ISS operations through 2030.
Oct 02, 2023
Financing issues are delaying development of a new Russian space station in low Earth orbit.
Oct 02, 2023
NASA plans to extend its New Horizons mission, the first to conduct a close flyby of distant Pluto and its moons, until the end of the decade with a focus on gathering data on solar activity and its influences across the Solar System.
Missile Defense & Weapons
Oct 02, 2023
The image released by the 412th Test Wing shows a portion of the missile where the solid rocket motor of the booster stage connects to the exhaust section.
Oct 02, 2023
Acquire thousands of cheap drones within a few years by empowering combatant commands and defense-wide agencies, Anduril's Chris Brose says.
Sep 28, 2023
Germany is proceeding with the purchase of Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system.
Sep 28, 2023
This budget is in line with the French Military Programming Law, which provides for a total budget for the armed forces of €413.3 billion between 2024 and 2030.
Sep 27, 2023
The U.S. Navy has not decided whether the competition will be managed at the all-up round level or with subcomponents.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare
Sep 27, 2023
A final upgrade for the Lockheed Martin U-2S is moving forward.
Sep 26, 2023
Textron and Griffon will compete for the Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft System development contract after the U.S. Army has eliminated three other teams.
Sep 22, 2023
Singapore Armed Forces' new Digital and Intelligence Service, which is participating for the first time in Exercise Forging Saber, has helped advance the CCIS.
Sep 19, 2023
This month IronNet announced it had furloughed “almost all” its employees and “substantially curtailed” business operations.
Sep 19, 2023
The commitment to buy the fourth aircraft stops short of Australia’s original plan to buy seven MQ-4Cs, with a goal of operating two simultaneous patrols.
Supply chain
Sep 26, 2023
Thoma Bravo is selling its aerospace and defense consultancy Exostar to Arlington Capital Partners.
Sep 18, 2023
The University of Texas at Dallas will lead a consortium of universities, national laboratories and energy storage companies.
Sep 06, 2023
Lockheed has further delayed delivery of the first F-35 upgraded with new avionics, to the second quarter of 2024, adding to a backlog of deferred shipments.
Aug 31, 2023
Demonstration and operational testing of the microreactor was targeted to begin in 2027.
Aug 31, 2023
Aerospace and electronics company HEICO Corporation had a strong fiscal third quarter.
Budget, Policy & Operations
Oct 02, 2023
Slovakia has 14 Block 70-model fighters on order to replace its Soviet-era Mikoyan MiG-29s that were withdrawn last year and transferred to Ukraine.
Sep 29, 2023
The purchase of the two Erieye Saab 340s springs from an urgent requirement from Poland to bolster aerial surveillance of its borders with Russia.
Sep 28, 2023
This budget is in line with the French Military Programming Law, which provides for a total budget for the armed forces of €413.3 billion between 2024 and 2030.
Sep 28, 2023
France's “historic” performance, as described by the report, is largely due to the sale of 80 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters and associated weapons to the UAE.
Sep 26, 2023
The vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS is designed to provide the Singapore Armed Forces command post last-mile intelligence of areas of interest.