The agreement, signed in Brussels during a meeting of NATO defense ministers, comes as Britain and Norway pave the way for the introduction of the Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Pentagon’s leading contractor, said it is making a “strategic investment” in nanosatellite provider Terran Orbital.
In this week's Washington Outlook: Defense committees add more money for military spending than the Senate is likely to pass; the return of the Europa lander; another ATC fight in the works.
NASA must continue to invest in high-performance human spacecraft propulsion beyond Earth orbit if its exploration goals are to be realized, experts told House lawmakers Thursday.
The helium-filled balloon rose from its high desert launch site shortly after 9 a.m. EDT, following a delay to wait for favorable weather after a scrubbed attempt June 21.
The Inmarsat/Hellas Sat mission originally was allocated to SpaceX, but was switched to Arianespace due to delays in SpaceX’s manifest following the on-pad explosion of a Falcon 9 in September 2016.
The bill authorizes $631 billion for baseline military requirements compared to the $603 billion requested by the president, and another $65 billion for wartime needs.
The committee’s mark of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill approves $700 billion in spending on the military, including $632 billion in the baseline budget and $8 billion for Department of Energy national security programs.
Hensoldt, which was spun off from Airbus earlier this year, signed a share purchase agreement with private equity firm ECI Partners, which owns Enfield-based Kelvin Hughes, the two companies announced June 29.
Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) high-tech surveillance AP-3C Orion aircraft will operate over the southern region of Mindanao to fight Islamist militants...
But unless Republicans and Democrats reach a wider budget deal that raises sequestration caps on government spending, the Air Force may not get the money it needs to continue flying all nine Warthog squadrons.
The addition of Germany and Norway brings the total number of countries in involved in the MMF program to four, including the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Belgium has expressed a wish to join the program in early 2018.
Oman begins receiving Eurofighter Typhoons, U.S. approves sale of another C-17 to India, IAI wins major IT consolidation contract and Lockheed pumps out GPS III satellites.
A newtarget drone designed for the U.S. Navy to replicate the flight patterns and countermeasures of enemy anti-ship cruise missiles and aircraft has moved into low-rate initial production.
House defense authorizers highlighted a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents in U.S. Navy aircraft during a markup of the defense policy bill, with one lawmaker slamming the service for its “insufficient” response to the problem.
The House’s version of the defense policy bill, if passed, would authorize the Pentagon to take the next step toward an international F-35 “block buy” valued at as much as $40 billion.
Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, principal deputy director of the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, says after almost 60 years of laser development, high-power laser technology is finally on the cusp of delivering battlefield utility.
The CST-100, along with SpaceX’s crewed Dragon, is one of two space capsules in development under NASA Commercial Crew contracts to fly U.S. astronauts to the ISS...
