Compromise defense authorization language would provide more money for readiness and higher troop levels instead of plus-ups for fighter aircraft procurement.
Lawmakers have essentially rejected a Senate effort to kill the F-35 Joint Program Office and split the fighter's upgrade effort into a separate acquisition program.
The U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for relief from a likely continuing resolution (CR) for the next-generation KC-46 tanker to avoid paying a steep penalty to Boeing.
The 2017 defense authorization bill will include compromise language that splits the Pentagon’s office for acquisition, technology and logistics into a new undersecretary of research and engineering and an undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment.
After a dozen years in orbit about giant Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to embark on a “ring grazing” session as the lead-in to a mission “Grand Finale.”
Spirit AeroSystems CEO and President Tom Gentile will not cop to a turnaround for the leading aerostructures provider, but the relatively new chief executive is happy to point out his Wichita company has entered a new moneymaking era.
A developer of commercially available unmanned aircraft detection systems has unveiled a portable rifle-style jammer that blocks video and forces the drone to land safely and without damage.
An independent report into the construction of Britain’s warships has recommended that a new generation of light frigates for the Royal Navy should be built by another British shipyard or an industrial alliance rather than solely by BAE Systems.
F-22 fighter maintainers are already tackling an issue with the fleet’s stealth coating that, if left untreated, could cause the radar-evading material to peel off the aircraft.
JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) and The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky (TsAGI), an aircraft design and test centre, completed another series of tests with regard to Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft.
The Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS) has allegedly failed to explain why it grounded three Dornier 228 turbo-prop surveillance aircraft, which could have been deployed effectively to provide aerial surveillance services to the army's counter-terrorism war against the Islamist Boko Haram militant group in the north-east. Oscar Nkala reports.
