Defense

Kratos chief Eric DeMarco wants his company to be the very best at a handful of things.

The XQ-222 and UTAP-22 combat drones, derived from aerial target technology, have already captured the imagination of the U.S. military services stateside but are more obscure concepts on the world stage.

Boeing’s defense and space unit will eliminate a layer of management, affecting 50 employees, and reorganize executive reporting lines starting July 1.

World View Enterprises, Inc. is set for a four-day test flight of its uncrewed Stratollite high-altitude balloon, the longest voyage yet for the rocketless system.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Russia appears to be in violation of the 1992 Open Skies Treaty by restricting where the U.S. and other party nations can fly.

India is getting ready to launch its latest Earth observation satellite in the Cartosat-2 series by the end of this month.

Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force to develop a “threat radar” capable of mimicking foreign-made “medium-range, double-digit” surface-to-air missiles.

Indonesia may be close to finally signing a long-delayed deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighters, as Russia offers the inducement of a local service center.

There is a lot of intriguing activity in the aerospace industry than is not be apparent at first look.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to buy additional Ground-Based Interceptors and activate another two missile silos at Fort Greely, Alaska.

Orbital ATK has eased the margins on its Antares launch vehicle after the performance it turned in last fall with a new Russian-built rocket engine.

Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo said June 12 it will buy Moog’s in-space propulsion businesses in the UK and Ireland.

Germany is to move its Panavia Tornado reconnaissance aircraft from Turkey to Jordan after a long-running diplomatic spat with Ankara.

U.S. Air Force F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, are still temporarily grounded as a government-industry team works to find the root cause of five incidents of hypoxia-like symptoms on the new fighter in the last month.

The Cygnus resupply spacecraft's mission-ending re-entry took place east of New Zealand just before 2 p.m. EDT, following a successful weeklong demonstration of commercial, multi-mission spacecraft activities away from the space station.

General Electric announced June 12 that Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt will retire this year and be succeeded by John Flannery, current president and CEO of GE Healthcare.

Airbus is testing a permanent solution to the power gearbox (PGB) problems that held up deliveries and affected flight operations of the A400M airlifter last year.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon almost $9 million to complete a flight-test demonstration of the latest network-enabled JSOW C-1 configuration.

NASA has issued a draft request for proposals for development of its Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demonstrator, starting the clock ticking toward first flight of the new X-plane in early 2021.

What if the burgeoning, nearly-two-decade-old CubeSat craze was followed by something bigger? Perhaps something just as if not even more compelling?

Lockheed is planning a series of sensor upgrades to keep the Dragon Lady relevant through 2045.

The U.S. Air Force says flying operations at Luke AFB were canceled on June 9 “to synchronize operations and maintenance efforts toward safe flying.”

“We expect France would be involved,” said Airbus’ head of military aircraft, Fernando Alonso, speaking to journalists here June 9. “It is clearly in our European interest to define one single system available to all."

Portugal looks set to become the first customer for Embraer’s KC-390 airlifter.

Even a 1% fuel savings on the C-17 would save the Pentagon millions of dollars annually.