Defense

Lockheed Martin Space will demonstrate a new booster for a submarine-launched, intermediate-range hypersonic weapon.

Honeywell said Nov. 30 it plans to move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Morris Plains, New Jersey.

Honeywell said it has started testing commercial microfabricated trapped-ion qubit devices as the company spins up a quantum computing-related business line.

Subaru is aiming for large cost reductions in production of a new version of the Bell 412 that the company will build for the Japanese army and civil customers.

Japan’s prospective requirement for attack helos is likely to include shipboard operation and entry into service no later than the mid-2020s.

UAS specialist General Atomics Aeronautical Systems wants to grow ties and work with defense suppliers and related businesses in Japan, the company said.

India’s national defense agency has successfully tested a new Stand-off Anti-Tank missile meant to bolster the military’s multi-platform launch capability.

DHS has developed a new low-cost antenna and has already transferred the technology to three unidentified companies for commercialization.

A Japanese final-assembly plant for Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings has capacity for continued and faster production after the country’s current order is complete.

Many believe that Africa will be the big growth market for the global defence industry, thanks to burgeoning security requirements and vast oil and natural gas reserves. Jon Lake takes a look at the situation.

Report to Congress warns of “dangerous” erosion of U.S. military superiority that risks “grave and lasting” consequences for the nation.

A USAF plan to grow by 74 operational squadrons over the next 12 years may include a 400% increase in units dedicated to the electronic warfare mission.

A new Russian anti-ship missile and one of its likely U.S. countermeasures are racing to be fielded at sea by the end of next year.

NASA has selected nine companies eligible to fly small payloads to the surface of the Moon.

With a combined annual supply chain and outsourced budget of $9 billion, the leaders of the future L3 Harris Technologies defense and aerospace services giant will rein in those costs to help reach at least $500 million in savings over three years, the company’s COO-designate said Nov. 29.

German air rescue organization ADAC Luftrettung is to study the feasibility of using Volocopter eVTOL aircraft as air shuttles for emergency doctors.

Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a cooperative agreement that covers commercial and military aviation, in Israel and globally.

A decade-long pursuit of a forward-firing gun system for the Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft is moving toward a flying experiment.

Details of SpaceX’s planned inflight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2019 have been revealed.

Under DARPA’s Concerto program, BAE Systems demoed a multifunction RF system that could simultaneously perform radar, comm relay and electronic attack in a payload that could be carried on a Group 3 UAV.

India’s national space agency has successfully put into orbit its first Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS).

New Rocket, Ltd. of Israel anticipates the flight readiness of a new green, in-space propulsion system by the end of the first quarter of 2019.

Russia’s newest light transport aircraft; Egypt may buy $1 billion in Apache helos; the impact of Elbit’s IMI acquisition and Malaysia’s drone squadron.

Executives assert the new UTC, unveiled in late November, is positioned for the long-haul in A&D, not just against any one OEM or aircraft.

Nigeria has signed a tentative agreement to order 12 Sierra Nevada/Embraer A-29 light attack aircraft after a long and controversial acquisition process.