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Apr 25, 2025
The U.S. Navy appears poised to pick either Boeing or Northrop Grumman to develop its next-generation combat aircraft, the F/A-XX. Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss what's at stake.
Apr 25, 2025
The 76-year-old alliance wants to bolster its space capabilities with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding.
Apr 25, 2025
The camps on either side of the defense mobilization debate in the U.S. and allied countries should consider two more mobilization pathways.
Apr 24, 2025
A U.S. Air Force notice raises the possibility of the service fielding a separate aircraft to serve the E-7A role.
Apr 24, 2025
SpaceWerx and The Aerospace Corp. help commercial space companies and prospective government customers get on the same page about technology readiness levels.

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Jun 23, 2025
Hanwha Systems and Northrop Grumman have agreed to collaborate on developing integrated air and missile defense systems technology.
Jun 22, 2025
The U.S. used almost all operational Northrop Grumman B-2 bombers and more than half of its GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in striking Iran.
Jun 22, 2025
The U.S. joined Israel striking Iranian nuclear facilities, using Northrop Grumman B-2 bombers that employed the U.S. Air Force's largest conventional bomb.
Jun 20, 2025
The industrial joint venture company that will build the tri-national combat aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program has been christened Edgewing.
Jun 20, 2025
Eutelsat, whose OneWeb system competes with SpaceX’s Starlink, is raising $1.6 billion with backing from the French government.
Jun 19, 2025
Two Chinese-built satellites may be on the verge of conducting an on-orbit, satellite-to-satellite refueling activity for the first time, U.S. space situational awareness company Slingshot Aerospace recently announced.
Jun 19, 2025
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has agreed to explore opportunities with Electra.aero for the startup’s in-development EL9 ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Jun 18, 2025
A low-end collaborative combat aircraft designed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works entered captive-carry testing within the last few weeks.