Defense

Boeing has been briefed by the U.S. Air Force after missing out on one of two contracts to work on the service's next nuclear cruise missile, and must now decide whether to protest the decision.

The U.S. Air Force has lifted a temporary flight restriction limiting the F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, to flying below 25,000 ft., although no root cause has been identified for a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents at that location.

With Lockheed out, Boeing and Northrop are now in a head-to-head battle to capture the nation’s most important strategic nuclear missile program since the Cold War.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is preparing to re-open after the U.S. Labor Day holiday.

The test took place at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, against a single, probably North Korean-style medium-range ballistic missile target.

A senior Nigerian Air Force (NAF) pilot instructor has died after the Air Beetle trainer aircraft he was flying crashed near the city of Kaduna. By Oscar Nkala.

Tax reform, including cuts to U.S. tax rates and a potential to bring back cash from overseas, dominates conversations when it comes to Washington affairs.

U.S. Air Force is exploring ways to use automation and artificial intelligence to ease the workload on Distributed Common Ground System intelligence gatherers.

NASA’s most ambitious space science projects are an essential part of maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration, an assessment says.

SpaceX successfully deployed the long-delayed FormoSat-5 remote sensing satellite into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Japanese and U.S. forces in the region left the missile alone, despite each spending billions of dollars annually on missile defense technology designed to shoot it down.

The “Green Knights” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, stationed at Iwakuni, Japan, are set to get their first F-35Bs equipped with the final Block 3F software in September.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston remained closed to all but essential personnel Aug. 29, four days after major hurricane-turned-tropical storm Harvey barged ashore on the Texas coast.

Expected to open later this fall, the lab is dedicated to advancing the use of 3D printing for the creation of composite tooling applications addressing complex design and manufacturing requirements.

Patriots, F-16s and attack helicopters are high on Romania’s defense list as Bucharest increases defense spendin

Inadvertently, decades-old restraints on weapons exports are helping China expand its foothold in the unmanned aircraft arena.

The move means the U.S., Air Force can now move forward with its plan to replace the Compass Call electronic jamming plane, used to eavesdrop on and attack enemy communications.

The rifle-like REX 1 system is designed to bring down commercial drones safely by blocking their navigation and communication signals.

Seeker Aircraft America has formed a partnership with KAHA Aviation Solutions, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as it expands into a new market.

Pilatus is ceasing production of its PC-6 Porter multirole aircraft—which has been produced without interruption since 1959.

A trick that mutes a blaring horn when the autopilots on Boeing models are manually disconnected could potentially cause an entry-into-service delay for the KC-46 Pegasus tanker, a derivative of the 767-2C freighter.

The USS Coronado (LCS 4) operating off the coast of Guam successfully hit a target with a Boeing Harpoon Block 1C anti-ship cruise missile, with targeting support from Northrop Grumman’s unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout.

JSC management was to huddle Aug. 28 to assess the status of the center, which employees about 10,500 federal civil servants and contractor personnel, and when it might re-open.

Dubbed Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)-5, this mission marked the Minotaur’s first launch from Cape Canaveral, and the first time Space Launch Complex-46 has hosted a rocket flight since 1999.

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe should join its twin, Voyager 1, by departing the Solar System in 2–3 years, according to one of the project’s longest-serving science team members.