Defense

What do aerospace and defense companies need to think of now as artificial intelligence spreads across the industry in earnest?

The pilot, who requested anonymity to protect his privacy, immediately recognized the early symptoms of hypoxia he’d experienced during training in the altitude chamber.

Last May, the U.S. Air Force loaded up three Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers with 30,000-lb. earth-penetrating bombs and sent them on a test mission against a single target at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The new Northrop Grumman division housing Orbital ATK will be called Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and will be led by Blake Larson, currently Orbital’s chief operating officer.

Schweizer RSG has declared plans to restart production of the Schweizer 300 helicopter after buying rights to the aircraft from Sikorsky.

Japan for the first time deployed a Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning to an operational base on Jan. 26.

Arianespace suffered from two mishaps Jan. 25 in its first launch of 2018, when the Ariane 5 rocket lost its telemetry link with the ground and placed both of its payload satellites into the wrong orbit.

India has begun a fresh hunt to acquire mid-air refueling aircraft.

The aircraft arrived at the RTAF’s Takhli base in Nakhon Sawan province, 240 km (140 mi) northwest of Bangkok on Jan. 25, 17 days after they left South Korea for the ferry flight.

An amateur astronomer looking for the lost Zuma satellite instead found a NASA science satellite known as IMAGE, which disappeared from radar tracking on Dec. 18, 2005.

India hopes the scheduled April launch of its GSAT-11 communication satellite by Arianespace will mark the last time it has to rely on a foreign launcher to orbit a satellite.

The draft Nuclear Posture Review would lower the bar for a nuclear first strike and seeks to add new types of weapons to the U.S. arsenal.

Marines are used to getting people to move faster. Now a Marine is ordering the aerospace sector to do just that, and it would behoove industry to snap to it.

Speed matters on this week’s podcast as technical editor Graham Warwick talks to senior editor Guy Norris about his story on Boeing’s reusable hypersonic demonstrator concept and the rapidly evolving developments in hypersonics over the past year since he broke the story about the U.S. losing its lead in this increasingly important area of defense technology.

The U.S. targets China and Russia in its latest defense strategy, but what’s to stop both powers ganging up against Washington?

A U.S. appeals court decision may allow the U.S. Army to move forward with a sole-source purchase of UH-72 helicopters from Airbus.

The technology transition program, an Air Force budget line that funds advanced component development and prototyping, has grown exponentially since being established in fiscal 2014 and that trend is set to continue.

General Dynamics looks to ramp up corporate investments across its aviation and defense businesses, according to company chiefs, following expectations of growth in its Gulfstream and naval shipbuilding work.

Wall Street analysts peppered Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy and CFO Toby O’Brien with questions Jan. 25 after subsidiary Forcepoint reported a loss of $8 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.

The aircraft, which also was the first F-35B to be assembled outside the U.S, was formally handed over in a ceremony at Cameri on Jan. 25.

The production of this Cold War-era aircraft was suspended in 2008, but on Jan. 25 the defense ministry placed a new order with United Aircraft Corp. for 10 more airframes.

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that the Afghan Air Force will receive 10 fixed-wing AC-208B “Eliminator” surveillance and strike aircraft from Orbital ATK.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office says FAA and the Pentagon still have not approved any fixes to address security and operational risks to military aircraft from transmitting their position via ADS-B Out.

The military has much aging equipment and ammunition that needs to be replaced or upgraded.

Rotorcraft will become a focus of Thailand’s military imports in coming years.