The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.
The U.S. Air Force’s desire to keep the venerable Boeing B-52 Stratofortress operational to 2050 and beyond is driving momentum to finally replace the nearly 60-year-old engines which power America’s fleet of 76 B-52Hs.
NASA is re-assessing plans for a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to upgrade its solar power generation system with more efficient lithium ion power storage batteries.
Sean Stackley, best known as Washington’s naval acquisition czar under the Obama administration, has become L3's corporate senior vice president and president of Communications & Networked.
Rockwell Collins is promoting a digital upgrade of the HGS-6000 Head-up Guidance System on the C-130J Super Hercules that will combine enhanced and synthetic vision for U.S. Air Force missions as well as for firefighting operations.
The fixed-price contract worth up to $7.2 billion came to Lockheed by default after Boeing and Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition earlier this year.
The fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill conference report allots the Pentagon $1.7 billion for 16 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
Detecting and tracking “dark ships” suspected of smuggling or illegal fishing will be the first application for a radio frequency (RF)-based data stream collected by a new cluster of commercial cubesats scheduled for launch by the end of November
The release of the U.S. Army’s broad agency announcement for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competitive prototyping program is imminent, an industry executive says.
The U.S. Air Force is implementing a series of corrective measures to reduce the number of physiological events that pilots experience while flying the T-6 Texan.
A belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business to Safran has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, the chief executive of the latter told analysts recently.
An operational MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system suffered damage Sept. 12 after landing with retracted gear on a U.S. Navy base in California, the Navy says.
