Defense

There are many unanswered questions in the Pentagon about the White House’s push to create a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces.

The launch of India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, which had been scheduled for October, has been postponed until next year to allow for more testing.

President Donald Trump has authorized $716 billion in national defense spending by signing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis now supports creating a sixth U.S. armed service, known as Space Force.

Northrop Grumman performed a successful fit check for the U.S. Marine Corps of the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar on a Boeing F/A-18C Hornet in California.

Faster metal 3D printing; Reykjavik drone delivery expands; Pentagon eyes medical delivery drones; DARPA tests fast autonomous scouts.

During a long and fruitful career, including 15 years with Aviation Week, John Morrocco was respected by his colleagues for his thorough work and engaging demeanor.

The Pentagon has determined the failure of a Standard Missile Block IIA test shot from an Aegis Ashore site in Hawaii roughly seven months ago was due to a faulty rocket component.

Afghanistan can provide full surveillance of its airspace now that the multilateration system at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has been restored, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission says.

The launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been tentatively reset for early Aug. 12, following a scrub late in the initial countdown in response to several issues.

Are the UAE’s new spy-planes modern enough? Alan Warnes has been finding out.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will nearly quadruple the space it occupies at the Grand Sky research and development park in Grand Forks, North Dakota,.

India’s central auditor is challenging the rationale behind the country’s purchase of eight P-8I Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft from Boeing.

UK UAV developer Blue Bear Systems Research is to work with Cranfield University to create a corridor through national airspace for BVLOS drone testing.

NASA’s $1.6 billion, seven-year Parker Solar Probe mission was developed for the closest-ever reconnaissance of the Sun.

Sam Basch takes brief look at South Africa’s Paramount Group, which is headed by Ivor Ichikowitz, a man who seems to have the ability to see opportunities others often overlook and who continuously grows his innovative defence group across the air, land and sea domains.

South Africa’s Paramount Group is looking to establish a “center of excellence” for the Dassault Mirage F1.

Cubic will offer government customers an “affordable” ISR UAV capability with expanded range and payload over other existing systems in its class.

Maxar Technologies has won one of nine contracts to help the Missile Defense Agency build a prototype missile tracking system.

Pentagon officials are trying to gather feedback from the aerospace and defense industry for the Trump administration’s review of the U.S. automotive industry.

Zipline International is working with the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit to demo the potential for medical drone delivery.

The Pentagon is in the early stages of building a statistical model to predict what U.S. foreign military sales will be executed in the future.

Boeing has a new name for part of its drive to vertically integrate and become a more important player in avionics, and it is hiring Americans.

The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.

NASA has enlisted 13 companies, under agreements totaling an estimated $11 million, for advice on growing a U.S. industrial presence in low Earth orbit.