Defense

Analysts are seeking to temper any expectations of increased defense spending fueled by Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) white paper that would add billions. “It’s not Christmas in July,” one panelist said.

As Leidos' defense group president departs, the company may further reorganize in the wake of a major acquisition last year.

India has signed an agreement with Japan to enhance cooperation in space exploration.

Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) plant in Huntsville, Alabama, has secured its fourth full-rate production contract after an eventful 2016.

John Grunsfeld—NASA’s former associate administrator for science, Hubble Space Telescope astronaut repair specialist and astrophysicist—has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the National Space Trophy.

The British government has declined to confirm or deny newspaper reports that the test of an unarmed Trident submarine-launched missile went awry, resulting in the weapon’s self-destruction off the Florida coast in June 2016.

“Mars is a bridge too far,” counsels Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

President Donald Trump was spared heavy rain when he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, but poor weather thwarted what would have been the first military flyover for a presidential inauguration in 68 years.

The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder is taking advantage of a large gift and an ambitious new dean of engineering to help focus the state’s aerospace industry as a growing U.S. center for spaceflight innovation.

Despite Donald Trump’s vocal battering of two top Norwegian priorities, NATO and the F-35, Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expects the newly minted U.S. president to continue longstanding support for both.

Safran Group and Zodiac Aerospace entered into exclusive negotiations for an acquisition of Zodiac by Safran, the companies said on Jan. 19.

The first batch of Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM) has been delivered to Poland for use on the country’s F-16 Fighting Falcon fleet.

Boeing will soon test an air-launched version of the double-range “Harpoon-ER” anti-ship missile in anticipation of U.S. Navy requirements.

Lockheed Martin X-56A ready return to flight; Aurora LightningStrike vertical-horizontal transition tests; TsAGI ground-effect transport tested; BAE Systems lasers to create atmospheric lenses; U.S. Army tests Hoverbike for rapid resupply.

The third of six U.S. Air Force missile warning satellites intended for geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) has successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) RD-180-powered Atlas V rocket.

Astronauts and engineers are teaming up at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to assess how well they can read and respond to Orion cockpit displays as the spacecraft vibrates during ascent.

NASA’s Lockheed Martin X-56A aeroelastic research aircraft is ready to fly once the flooded lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, has dried and can again be used as a runway.

Aurora Flight Sciences soon will begin testing the transition between vertical and horizontal flight for its LightningStrike high-speed, hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft under development for Darpa.

Stealth technology and counterstealth techniques are part of an age-old cat-and-mouse game between military adversaries. Our editors discuss the latest developments and what is coming soon.

Eyes may be on the T-X competition, but the international market remains ripe for training aircraft.

A lot in Washington is broken these days, but not everything needs to be fixed.

Rolls’s settlement emerges as fraud investigators begin to examine the aerospace industry as a whole.

A thumbnail outline of most nation’s plans to replace their trainer aircraft in light of many current trainers approaching retirement.

Here are signposts to follow as the new administration’s choices on defense unfold.

In this week’s Washington Outlook: why industry experience in government helps the Pentagon get a better deal; McCain’s plans to spend big on the military; a burgeoning space rivalry; and the ongoing attempt to block the sale of aircraft to Iran Air.