Defense

U.S. lawmaker worries about India’s S-400 deal, Canada’s defense investment plan, General Atomics teams with Canadian companies for RPAS program, and Kazakhstan buys Su-30 fighters.

The criminal investigation is closing in on the people responsible, says the Joint Investigation Team.

Distinguishing the subtle differences in behavior between innocent bystanders and enemy combatants hiding among them is at the core of a new Darpa program.

Italy and Greece will perform air policing for the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro beginning June 5, the NATO alliance has announced.

Ukraine is to purchase 55 helicopters from France to renew its parapublic rotary-wing fleet.

A pair of private equity investors targeting the federal marketplace have taken over LinQuest, a space systems provider to defense and intelligence agencies.

Despite ongoing reforms, NASA has failed to accurately size up the value and performance of hundreds of reimbursable agreements.

Japan’s ruling party has called for the country to spend 2% of GDP, double the limit that Japan has observed for almost six decades.

At least 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency services agencies in the U.S. have acquired drones, a new study says.

The U.S. defense satellite market could reach $30.30 billion by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3%, a new forecast says.

“You do not need a high-end stealth fighter to destroy a narcotics factory. It is not a cost-effective way to combat violent extremism,” U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a May 29 speech at the Atlantic Council.

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Virgin Galactic is expected to begin test plans for a longer duration rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo (SS2) VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane.

Retired NASA space shuttle astronaut Don Peterson, who participated in the first spacewalk aboard one of the winged orbiters, has died.

Japan has taken an initial step toward replacing its Bell AH-1S Cobra helicopters, seeking information from prospective suppliers.

NASA is exercising an option for production of the third and fourth JPSS satellites for the NOAA by Orbital ATK, of Dulles, Virginia, through 2026.

India has concluded commercial negotiations with Russia to purchase five S-400 Surface-to-Air Missile systems despite serious U.S. concerns.

Kazakhstan is gradually expanding its fleet of Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30SM multirole fighters.

A multi-agency/contractor fault tree investigation is probing the degraded cooling performance of the Advanced Baseline Imager camera aboard NOAA's newest weather satellite.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Honeywell have jointly developed navigation systems to make military aircraft immune to GPS jamming.

First British Apaches have been sent to the U.S. for remanufacturing to AH-64E standard.

During Fleet Exercise 2017, two U.S. Navy Super Hornets were able to fuse data from multiple sensors on both aircraft in near real-time to form a “common tactical picture,” Boeing says.

The chairman and CEO of the parent company of iconic French business aircraft and fighter jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation died May 28 after suffering heart failure at his office in Paris.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) extended a security warning for the Egypt Sinai Peninsula to 25 November 2018 due to continuing concern for flight safety.

Sikorsky Raider back; Bahaus turbofan concept; Rolls’ new engine research; Cormorant unmanned delivery test; MIT’s Albatross/Sail UAV; Lockheed’s VTOL Stalker.