Nineteen months after the U.S. Air Force banned lightweight pilots from flying the F-35, the service is lifting the restriction.

In a 62-page report that focuses primarily on delays and challenges for the F-35 program, one of the Joint Strike Fighter’s toughest critics highlighted progress toward fixing a safety issue with the aircraft’s ejection seat.

While the idea of the ejection seat can be dated back to 1920s and even as early as 1910, it was the Second World War when the first rudimentary ejection seats were developed.

Aviation Week’s Pentagon Editor Lara Seligman joined the U.S. Navy aboard the USS George Washington Aug. 16 just off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, for the final phase of developmental testing of the F-35C carrier variant.

With few new-start programs planned, Darpa’s fiscal 2017 budget request is focused on advancing several large demonstrations and transitioning technologies to their intended customers.

There is growing interest in Aegis Ashore installations on U.S. land and abroad, says U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring.

The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 budget request includes a notable increase in the number of ship- and aircraft-fired missile that starts a solid inventory growth over the future year’s defense plan (FYDP).

The management of NASA’s highest funded field center, Johnson Space Center (JSC), believes it can meet expectations under the agency’s proposed 2017 budget.