The U.S. Air Force wants to grow from 55 fighter squadrons today to 60, with an uptick in enlisted personnel from 317,000 this year to 350,000 over an unspecified period.
The U.S. Air Force is filling in the details of a plan to study what commercial-off-the-shelf designs might be a good fit for a possible light-attack fleet.
As Norway looks to modernize its maritime patrol fleet charged with hunting Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, Kongsberg is looking to equip the nation’s new P-8 fleet with its Joint Strike Missile (JSM).
Honeywell Aerospace is investigating ways to make its synthetic vision systems “more robust” following a June 18 incident in Australia involving a medevac Pilatus PC-12 outfitted with the company’s Primus Apex integrated avionics suite.
NASA’s Mars 2020 robotic rover mission faces potential cost and technical challenges that could jeopardize efforts to meet a 20-day, midyear launch window, the agency’s IG says.
In an updated wish list sent to President Donald Trump’s transition team in January, the U.S. Air Force is asking for additional funding to study a potential low-cost, light-attack aircraft to fight Islamic State terrorists, along with money to buy more high-end F-35s.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking proposals for a compact high-power laser to be used in the flight demonstration of a podded self-protection weapon that can be carried by supersonic fighters.
The South Korean defense ministry has decided to import the navy’s next batch of anti-submarine helicopters, rejecting a proposal to adapt the Korea Aerospace Industries Surion.
The U.S. Army plans to upgrade almost 200 MPQ-64 Sentinel short-range air defense radars to counter reduced-signature cruise missiles and small unmanned aircraft as well as short- and long-range rockets, artillery and mortar threats.
The first intercept test of the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IIA off the coast of Hawaii has been delayed due to poor weather conditions, but will go ahead “in the near future,” the Missile Defense Agency says.
President Trump claimed early Jan. 30 that he has cut $600 million from the upcoming low-rate initial production lot 10, estimated to be about 90 aircraft.
A Japanese cargo mission freighter is conducting a demo of JAXA electrodynamic tether technology to help stem the rise of large pieces of orbital debris.
L3 Technologies said Jan. 25 that its executives in charge of strategy and development and the company’s Electronic Systems business unit will be changing, and that the latter will be reorganized.
Britain’s BAE Systems and Turkish Aerospace Industries have signed a long-awaited agreement in which the UK company will assist TAI in the development of an indigenous fighter.
India has successfully tested the indigenous cryogenic engine for the upper stage of its heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk. 3, inching closer to boosting its capability to launch heavier satellites into orbit.
