Curtiss-Wright plans to buy Pacific Star Communications, a private provider of tactical communications solutions for battlefield network management, for $400 million in cash, the companies announced Sept. 24.
DynCorp International, a provider of military logistics and aviation services to federal agencies, will be acquired by Amentum Holdings in a deal expected to close by year’s end.
A consortium of Airbus Helicopters and rotary-wing operator Heli-Union has been contracted to provide a fleet of helicopters to perform flight testing for the French defense materiel agency, the DGA.
“We're not giving up on a shipboard [unmanned air vehicle] by any stretch of the imagination,” U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said on September 24. The Marines restructured a shipboard UAS program in March.
Seeking to avoid a one-size-fits-all solution to a growing tanker capacity problem, U.S. Air Force leaders are considering a wide range of options for addressing refueling capacity gap.
As aerospace startups begin to move their fast-paced, iterative approach to development into the production of hardware, they face challenges using the deliberate, sequential manufacturing processes honed by industry over decades.
Israel and Italy have agreed a second reciprocal defense procurement agreement that will see Jerusalem purchase training helicopters from Italy, while Italy will buy missiles and simulators from Israel.
The U.S. Army conducted its first flight of a NCH-47 Chinook equipped with the GE Aviation T408 engine, which is the same turboshaft engine outfitting the CH-53K King Stallion.
Already on a tight schedule to deliver community acceptance data to regulators, NASA has revealed that COVID-19 challenges have pushed the first flight of its X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator back to summer 2022, from late 2021.
Nearly seven years after Brazil's fighter selection, the first Gripen E fighter has arrived in Brazil, where it will continue a year-long flight test campaign ahead of first delivery of an operational jet in 2021.
Dutch industry has benefited from an additional $19 million in contracts since Turkey’s suspension from the F-35 program, a national report has confirmed.
Aviation Week editors discuss the roots of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance program, its use of digital engineering to speed development and some of the obstacles it may face in the future.
Rolls-Royce is part of Boeing’s industry team to support the rotorcraft as it faces off against Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion to secure the lucrative Schwerer Transporthubschrauber (STH) contract.
Raytheon Technologies is on its way to cutting at least 15,000 employees in response to the company’s recent merger and the fallout from COVID-19, the aerospace and defense giant’s CEO told an investor conference, and likely more will occur.
