Darpa has launched a project to mature flow control technologies to a level where they can be designed into next-generation aircraft to eliminate the need for moving control surfaces.
A provision in the fiscal 2019 defense policy bill that blocks the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s to Turkey has cleared the full Senate and now awaits U.S. President Donald Trump’s signature.
Five veteran and three first-time NASA astronauts have been named to lift off on four history-making U.S. spaceflights that will end the long hiatus in the nation’s ability to launch astronauts on its own vehicles.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Aug. 2 that the funding would support the building of a production line in Ankara for the indigenous fighter program.
As part of preparations for the naval version of India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to begin aircraft carrier operations, the indigenous fighter has undergone tests to check its arrestor hook system.
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $40.4 million sale to Kuwait for various Mk-series munitions to use on Boeing F/A-18s, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) says.
NASA will prioritize avoiding another gap in U.S. human spaceflight activity over ending ISS support on a certain date, the agency's administrator says.
U.S. Air Force leaders, taken by the potential of reduced-cost space travel, are looking at ways expand cargo and transportation operations past the edge of the atmosphere within the next decade.
The Pentagon has shifted roughly $683 million in fiscal 2018 internal funding to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities by addressing combatant command gaps.
Triumph Group’s long-running divestiture effort recorded another selloff as the aircraft structures and parts provider has closed on the sale of Triumph Structures-East Texas to Merritt Preferred Components.
Sweden’s defense materiel agency FMV has been authorized to enter agreements with the U.S. government for the purchase of the system. Stockholm wants to purchase four batteries.
The indigenously developed Advanced Air Defense interceptor missile was test-fired from a defense test facility on Abdul Kalam Island, off the eastern coast of Odisha, on Aug. 2
NOAA issued a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract to procure seven Coyotes and upgrade two existing UAS. The aircraft will be fitted with an integrated meteorological/oceanographic payload.
The head of U.S. Strategic Command plans to move quickly to develop requirements for a space-based missile defense tracking system, which he thinks can be accomplished affordably.
Israel inches toward UAS carriers; Bulgaria reopens fighter contest; Indonesia C-130, Su-35 deliveries delayed to 2019; U.S. sells more munitions abroad.
