The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold an in-person nomination hearing May 7 for the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Navy secretary and deputy under secretary of defense for policy, despite the novel coronavirus.

After a late start, European industry is moving to close gap on high-speed missiles.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold.

A $707 million contract for F110 engines awarded April 28 to GE Aviation was expedited to help provide relief to a U.S. propulsion industry badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said.

While the Pentagon intends to request billions of dollars in the next iteration of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to support the defense industrial base, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) does not believe the Defense Department (DOD) should receive stimulus funding, setting up a likely debate on which federal agencies should get cash.

After a late start, European industry is moving to close gap on high-speed missiles.

Boeing does not anticipate a slowdown of the KC-46, MQ-25 or T-7 aircraft programs even though the company had to close facilities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior executives say.