Derek Tournear leads the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency that is charged with defining a National Defense Space Architecture that addresses eight critical yet unmet priorities outlined in the Defense Department Space Vision.

Babcock CEO Archie Bethel says the company is unlikely to make any additional investments in its oil-and-gas helicopter support business and suggests it will exit the business once existing contracts have been fulfilled.

Airbus has taken another €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) charge on its A400M airlifter program as a result of changes in export assumptions.

“I think all of us expected it to be a crawl, walk, run sort of situation,” the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told reporters Feb. 12.

The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program is moving to the Space Development Agency to avoid redundancy.

The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2021 budget submission shows plans to integrate Northrop Grumman APG-83 AESA radars on 330 more F-16s.

The U.S. Air Force is proposing the retirement of 13 KC-135s and 16 KC-10s in fiscal 2021, while the successor Boeing KC-46A Pegasus is not considered operationally viable.

NASA’s Washington headquarters is in line for the most, $7.75 billion, followed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston with $5.66 billion.