Defense

The U.S. Navy is close to awarding Boeing a contract to deliver a redesigned cockpit for the Block III version of the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.

General Atomics has performed the first flight of its second prototype MQ-9B SkyGuardian medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system.

Chinese state company Leobit plans to have all 80 satellites of its planned L-band communications constellation in orbit by about 2022.

Two military aircraft, an Antonov An-30 and an An-32, have collided on the runway at Khartoum International Airport, Sudan.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has done it for a third time—successfully delivering a small lander spacecraft to the surface of an asteroid.

UK Flight Trials off U.S. Eastern seaboard are integrating F-35 and HMS Queen Elizabeth-class carrier.

Bell’s experience with V-22 Osprey and V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft position the company well for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Group 5 UAS competition.

Industry may have won this round of defense acquisition reform for now after the Pentagon on Oct. 1 shelved a pay-for-performance scheme.

NASA and the NOAA have convened a mishap investigation board to seek the root or proximate cause of a cooling system anomaly aboard the GOES-17 satellite.

The latest 10-year, $33 billion U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) agreement with Israel that took effect on Oct. 1 is worrisome to some in Israeli industry.

Italy, Sweden and the U.S. have submitted proposals to meet a much-delayed Bulgarian requirement for new fighters to replace Sofia’s aging Soviet-era fleet.

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array will join the privately funded Breakthrough Listen initiative to scan 1 million nearby stars for signs of a technically advanced civilization beyond Earth.

Weather radar is no longer specified for an ambitious radar replacement program that U.S. government agencies would fund using proceeds from a future spectrum auction.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit and outlined spinoff demands before United Technologies would be allowed to acquire Rockwell Collins.

Fears of rocket attacks and use of incendiary, explosive-carrying balloons is prompting new interest in laser defense systems by the Israeli defense ministry.

The International Trade Commission plans to investigate a complaint of patent infringement against China’s DJI, the leader in the commercial drone market.

The FAA next year will begin a phased evaluation of satellite-aided surveillance of aircraft flying over oceanic spaces, including use of the Aireon space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system scheduled to begin operating in 2019.

Target Arm will showcase a prototype universal launch and recovery system for unmanned aircraft at a U.S. Army technology demonstration.

The Pentagon will finalize the Joint Strike Fighter acquisition strategy in a few weeks, and the service acquisition executives have signed the document.

Chinese private space-launcher developer Landspace aims to make the first flight of its main rocket in 2020, following a complete engine test late this year or early next.

General Electric investors are taking heart with a sudden shakeup of the corner office and board room at the beleaguered industrial giant.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos plans to conduct a spacewalk outside the ISS to collect additional information about a drill hole in a berthed Soyuz capsule.

The French air force has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT).

The USAF has notified lawmakers that prime contractor Lockheed Martin will need a new, $9.5 million facility to meet F-35 Lightning II full-rate production requirements.

Airbus Helicopters, Thales, and missile manufacturer MBDA have been awarded contracts to begin risk-reduction work to develop an upgrade for the Tiger attack helicopter.