ICAO task force to study concepts for sharing risk data and to create guidance for developing risk assessments that states can use to decide when to issue warnings or close airspace.
Unmanned aircraft guides firefighting robot; carrier landings made easier; a simpler approach to thrust vectoring; unmanned helicopter competes on cost with cargo trucks; Europe steps up work on reusable spaceflight.
From X-planes to the “black budget” to where the U.S. is placing its technology bets for the future, our editors discuss what’s buried in President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget request to Congress.
A Northrop Grumman-led team is dashing its plan to propose a modified BAE Systems Hawk trainer for the U.S. Air Force’s T-38 replacement program, opting instead for a clean-sheet design for the $1 billion program.
Senators try to build support to give Ukraine “defensive lethal weapons”; Bigelow Aerospace asks for a review of property rights on the Moon; the Obama budget request omits the proposed private-jet user fee.
The time is right to consider the propensity of the A&D industry to innovate and the aimpoints on which its response to the Pentagon’s call should be targeted.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is "very close to approval" of the strategy to procure the so-called Redesigned Kill Vehicle from a national industry team managed by the agency, says director Vice Adm. James Syring.
If enacted for fiscal 2016, the combined $534.3 billion “baseline” and $50.9 billion off-book Overseas Contingency Operations requests would be an increase of almost $25 billion, around 4%, over the current fiscal year’s total.
The procurement and research and development (R&D) plan would increase in the fiscal 2016 budget request by $8 billion compared with levels enacted by Congress in fiscal 2015.
Defense planners are increasingly concerned that advances in hypersonic glide vehicles from China and Russia pose a looming threat to the U.S. and its allies.
The overall budget, a slight decrease from fiscal 2015’s enacted level, includes requests of $9.9 billion for Operations; $2.85 billion for Facilities & Equipment; $166 million for Research, Engineering, & Development; and $2.9 billion in Airport Improvement Program grants.
Galileo will comprise a civilian-controlled constellation of 30 satellites, but civil aviation authorities are skeptical that Europe’s space sector can meet navigation and communications safety standards.
An annual assessment of NASA’s human spaceflight programs points to safety risks resulting from a lack of transparency and a disconnect between program goals and funding.
A shortage of airline pilots, a worrisome trend that will grow more apparent over the next two decades, has the industry contemplating current pilot-education requirements and ways to streamline the process of certifying commercial pilots.
