Defense

By Tony Osborne
Italy’s Elettronica and Spain’s Indra have partnered to develop a directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system for aircraft.
Defense

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states are forecast to spend over $100 billion on their defence capabilities for the first time next year, with increasing budgets in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) driving growth between 2018 and 2027.
Defense

A panel of government and law enforcement officials expressed grave concern to lawmakers about the threat posed by terrorists and criminals operating unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and called on Congress to provide them with more authority and resources to counter malicious drones.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The helicopter, upgraded by Northrop and partner Science and Engineering Services (SES), has entered flight testing in Huntsville, Alabama, and the first modified AH-1Fs have been shipped to Jordan for weapons testing and final acceptance.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Investment firm New Mountain Capital has bought a stake in MAG Aerospace, a Fairfax, Virginia, provider of airborne ISR services to government.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
New Horizons is in good health and preparing for a flyby of the oddly shaped Kuiper Belt object MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, that is expected to begin in late August.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The launch of Europe's Aeolus wind measurement satellite is now scheduled for Aug. 21 after 11 years of delay.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Juno mission at Jupiter has been extended until 2022 to enable scientists to achieve their prime mission goals despite a technical issue that has slowed science gathering.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Despite a growing list of headwinds, confidence in A&D’s business prospects grows.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Orbital ATK is upgrading the Pegasus XL rocket to drive down costs and has acquired a second airworthy Lockheed L-1011 as a long-term spares source.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The FAA named 19 U.S. penitentiaries and 10 Coast Guard bases and facilities at which drone flights will be prohibited from the ground to 400 ft. above each site, effective June 20.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The majority of the money—around €9.7 billion—will be spent on the Galileo navigation system and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) constellation.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Insitu has been competitively awarded a contract potentially worth $117 million over eight years to install and deploy contractor-owned and operated ScanEagle small UAS on U.S. Coast Guard cutters.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The organization, apparently called UTAP, is headed by Executive Director for Advanced Projects Jason Chua, who was formerly with Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost A3 (“A-Cubed”).
Defense

By Arie Egozi
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) adapted the platform, originally designed for land-based missions, for the sub-hunting role.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Forty-two years after NASA’s twin Viking landers looked for organics on Mars, the Curiosity rover has found them, setting the stage for a focused search for signs of life.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Chris Boardman, managing director of BAE Systems' Air division saysthe UK should be aiming to take a lead role in an international program to ensure the country retains its engineering base to produce combat aircraft.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Raytheon has begun discussions with the U.S. Navy on how to proceed with arming the service’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) with Norway’s Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM).
Defense

The funds will be distributed between the country’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk. 3 projects.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Six years after the delivery of the UK’s first F-35, four of the fighters have touched down at RAF Marham, the airfield selected as the British main F-35 operating base.
Defense

By Joe Anselmo, Bill Carey
U.S. Senate is concerned that China’s government is accessing data from commercial UAVs. Are the concerns justified? Listen in as our editors discuss.
Defense

By Richard Aboulafia
Between its 2011 peak and last year, the market fell by 7%. Stated requirements and program funding imply an additional 50% market drop by 2027.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Leonardo’s EW decoy for transporters; Northrop wins missile defense sustainment work; Indonesia to buy C-130s; 11th batch of F135s; new GPS III payload arrives.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The men and women assigned to the International Space Station (ISS) are focused increasingly on expanding the future of human exploration well beyond the bounds of their orbiting science lab.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Insight into how urgently the U.S. Air Force wants to field a hypersonic strike weapon has emerged even as Lockheed Martin officially acknowledges the April award of a potential $928 million contract to develop the air-launched missile.
Defense