The U.S.’s top general has expressed support for the procurement of additional Boeing-built Ground-Based Interceptors in response to North Korea’s ballistic missile program and other threats.
The U.S. Air Force general in charge of Northern Command says she is concerned about North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s intent to follow through with threats of attacking the homeland.
The UK’s defense minister has warned Boeing that its defense relationship with the British government could be jeopardized if it continues to pursue penalties against Canada’s Bombardier.
The U.S. Air Force is interested in looking more closely at the potential of Textron’s Scorpion aircraft as a low-cost alternative to current ISR capabilities.
If the Comac ARJ21 was a genuinely commercial program, the manufacturer would by now be saying it had done its best but, as everyone had always known, developing a jet airliner without experience was tough.
The potential for directed-energy weapons to counter the threat posed by small unmanned aircraft systems is to be assessed by the U.S. Air Force in an experimental demonstration.
The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with preparations to take two off-the-shelf light attack turboprop aircraft downrange to fight terrorists next year.
Significant progress has been made in the development of Vega C and Ariane 6, the light and medium/heavy launchers Arianespace is planning on operating from 2019 and 2020, respectively.
L3 Technologies is protesting the U.S. Army’s award of a 10-year, $387 million contract to support Army and U.S. Air Force rotary wing training at Fort Rucker, Alabama, after the incumbent lost a recompetition for the work.
Blue Origin has signed a third customer for orbital space launch services, agreeing to fly a communications satellite for Thai-based startup mµ Space Corp.
The Israeli defense ministry’s advanced technology department is developing wide-area surveillance UAVs, new ways to pick targets out of a crowd and a system of a thousand scattered sensors.
The Pentagon has rolled back an Obama administration requirement that sought to make companies better align their so-called independent R&D with Defense Department technology goals.
Sikorsky is beginning major assembly of the first aircraft of the U.S. Air Force’s HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program at its production facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
