U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says he supports the diplomatic and economic pressure being applied to North Korea by the White House and State Department, but “time is running out” before Kim Jong-un has an operational system capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
Wes Bush, Northrop chairman, chief executive officer and president, said during the company’s second-quarter 2017 teleconference July 27 that there was a “likelihood that an increasing fraction of our business may become restricted.”
Chris Kubasik, who will swap his COO title at L3 Technologies for CEO at the end of the year, will focus first on trying to find efficiencies in the company’s Aerospace Systems division.
Speaking in Paris as the company announced its half-yearly results, Trappier said French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clearly want Europe “to have a strong Franco-German pillar,” however he said the timescales for such a program were unclear.
The manufacturers have agreed to supply the weapons, says the office, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), presumably meaning that terms have been settled. But there is no mention of government permissions for exporting the missiles.
The chief of the Indonesia’s Defense Facilities Board, Rear Adm. Leonardi, says the air force has stated a requirement for a high-endurance unmanned system able to detect, track and attack targets.
Assembly of Czech training aircraft begins; Thai military preparing for more defense imports; Lockheed wins LRASM contract, and Hughes scores wideband satcom study deal.
After decades of promise is hypersonic technology finally verging on operational capability? The U.S. Air Force thinks so, and is laying out high-speed requirements underpinned by a growing budget for sustained R&D.
Congressional support is building for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) proposed space-based sensor layer for persistent tracking and discrimination of missiles.
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to solicit industry for development of an air-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon, for the first time the service is outlining its approach to operationalizing high-speed capability for a wide range of roles.
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance has been awarded a contract by the French Defense Procurement Agency for both the “Maintenance in Operational Condition” and cockpit upgrade of the French Air Force’s four Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft.
Aerojet Rocketdyne reports a successful test of the third of four RS-25 controllers for the quartet of space shuttle-era rocket engines that are to power the first stage of NASA’s Space Launch System.
North Dakota’s Grand Sky unmanned aircraft business park is planning to begin commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights in mid-August following final approval and equipment installation.
Interest is mounting in a potential new fleet of low-cost, light-attack aircraft the U.S. and international allies could use to fight terrorists in the Middle East.
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has begun assembly of four of its new L-39NG jet trainers in preparation for development and testing of the new-generation aircraft.
