Defense

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has expanded a contract agreement with Aerojet Rocketdyne to continue developing the AR1 booster and an upper-stage RL10C-X engine.

Counter-drone system provider Dedrone said it won first place in the third of three “ThunderDrone” rapid prototyping events.

When it comes to investing in space-related businesses, companies often have been reluctant to pursue what they perceive to be big risks. But the organizers of a new study on the size of the space market think change is coming.

General Atomics’ SkyGuardian UAV is to make a transatlantic crossing for its international debut at this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo.

Potentially blinding laser weapons are increasingly being pointed at U.S. military aircrews.

A pilot was killed when an A-29 Super Tucano crashed in New Mexico while participating in a U.S. Air Force light attack experiment, the service said.

One of the USAF's top acquisition programs, the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, will complete its critical design review by year’s end, a senior official says.

President Trump has told NASA to make a fresh assessment of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center model for operating the agency’s field centers.

South Korea has chosen the Boeing P-8 Poseidon over competing maritime patrollers offered by Airbus, L3 and Saab.

Satellite operators Airbus and Planet are to combine their respective capabilities in high-resolution and global, frequent-revisit Earth observation for joint offerings.

U.S. civil and military officials are backing the Trump administration’s push to place responsibility for space traffic management in the Department of Commerce.

As it accelerates planning for a new armed scout rotorcraft, the U.S. Army has announced it will brief industry on June 28.

The Philippines has enlarged its 2018-23 defense modernization program by 44%, budgeting for multirole fighters and the first of at least two planned subs.

The U.S. Army wants a new engine for the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft.

The Thai air force took delivery of a Sukhoi Business Jet (SBJ) on June 19, completing a 2014 order for three aircraft.

After a lack of UK government support was blamed for the failure of a project to convert London’s waste into jet fuel, a new effort has taken a step forward.

Turkey has taken delivery of its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter despite ongoing efforts by U.S. senators to block the transfer.

The Zambian Air Force (ZAF) will substantially improve its transport capabilities with the arrival of two Leonardo C-27J Spartan tactical airlift aircraft.

The DOD will use predictive analysis to anticipate future aviation mishaps and the services are adopting methods to gather that data, senior officials say.

Bell Helicopter demonstrates its V-280 tiltrotor prototype, built for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration, publicly for the first time.

Having developed and then armed its indigenous tactical unmanned air vehicles, Turkey is scaling up its drone ambitions.

SpaceX has won its first U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) heavy-lift launch service contract, work previously awarded solely to United Launch Alliance.

Donald E. Fink, Jr., a globe-trotting aerospace reporter, pilot and editor who led Aviation Week & Space Technology’s evolution from an engineering journal into a more modern industry publication, died June 21.

The FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee apparently lost its industry chairman after Intel Corp. CEO Brian Krzanich resigned over an improper relationship.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is on track for a June 27 rendezvous with Ryugu, a half-mile-wide, carbon-rich asteroid that is a potentially hazardous NEO.