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Mar 22, 2018
Congressional appropriators on March 22 unveiled a sweeping $1.3 trillion spending agreement that would fund the Department of Defense at $654.6 billion.
Mar 22, 2018
A $1.3 trillion spending bill pending before the House on March 22 includes an extra $1 billion for NASA.
Mar 21, 2018
NASA is eyeing a late 2022 mission to demonstrate whether a future asteroid on a collision course with the Earth could be deflected with a blow from a well-guided spacecraft.
Mar 14, 2018
The USAF's T-6 trainers are starting to fly again after a series of hypoxia-like cockpit events caused the service to temporarily ground the fleet.
Mar 13, 2018
The U.S. Navy is looking for a new digital system to monitor pressure and oxygen levels in the cockpit of its Boeing F/A-18s.
Mar 01, 2018
Darpa’s director has confirmed that the U.S. will flight test operational prototypes of a weapon similar to the Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic strike missile.
Feb 20, 2018
The USAF has decided to buy F-35s more slowly because of snowballing retrofit costs and several critical milestones that have not been completed.
Feb 16, 2018
The service had hoped to kick off the competitive technology maturation and risk-reduction phase in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, but instead the “Milestone A” acquisition decision has shifted into the second half of fiscal 2021.