Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Feb 01, 2023
A strong NASA budget request is essential to growing a generation of leaders who can compete globally in technological innovation.
Feb 01, 2023
The life-cycle cost for the jet-powered aircraft jumped 68% from 2008 to 2021.
Jan 26, 2023
France plans to spend more than €400 billion on defense in 2024-30, President Emmanuel Macron has declared.
Jan 26, 2023
The recent Exercise Varuna with India addresses French security concerns and showcases Rafale fighters to the Indian Navy.
Jan 25, 2023
Europe’s industry is exploring the role of cybertechniques as a means to defeat increasingly advanced air defenses.
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Jun 17, 2025
Airbus says talks are underway on how to evolve the Eurodrone program in terms of missions and participants, in part to reflect lessons from current conflicts.
Jun 17, 2025
Tensions over the potential workshare within the Franco-German-Spanish FCAS program resurfaced on the second day of the Paris Air Show.
Jun 17, 2025
The China Manned Space Engineering Office has completed the first zero-altitude escape flight test of its next-generation Mengzhou crewed spacecraft.
Jun 16, 2025
Israeli air strikes have taken out about one-third of Iran’s ballistic missile launcher capacity.
Jun 16, 2025
Boeing’s win of the U.S. Air Force F-47 fighter program may have answered one of the longest-running questions hanging over the aerospace giant.
Jun 16, 2025
ESA and French space agency CNES have not paused any activities potentially affected by proposed U.S. cuts to NASA’s budget, but are developing backup plans.
Jun 16, 2025
Boeing's Steve Parker defended U.S. industry’s ability to launch development of a second sixth-generation fighter at Paris Air Show, contradicting concerns by the Navy’s leader.
Jun 16, 2025
Lockheed Martin’s efforts to expand munitions production into Europe benefitting from a “sense of urgency” among governments, a company executive says.