Defense

Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services has launched an internal research and development effort to create a cyberintrusion detection system to be included in the cockpits of military and civil aircraft.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India has decided to buy approximately 57 fighters to operate from its aircraft carriers.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) formally inducted the first Boeing F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagles into its inventory during a ceremony in Riyadh on Jan. 25.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry has disposed of its inventory of its Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missiles, which had been used to suppress and destroy enemy air defenses.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Indonesian approval of funding for transport aircraft is a step toward a planned purchase of A400M Atlases, but will not result in an immediate order.
Defense

An international array of teams remain in the running for top money in the race to the Moon’s surface in the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize competition.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Marillyn Hewson said Jan. 24 that she has used her meetings with new U.S. President Donald Trump to explain what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter prime contractor already is doing to help lower costs on the Pentagon’s largest-ever acquisition effort.
Defense

The Trump administration’s first long-range defense spending plan is a “critical opportunity” to signal U.S. strength, members of three leading Washington think tanks say.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus Safran Launchers CEO Alain Charmeau has fleshed out a call to coordinate and guarantee an annual number of satellite launches using the Ariane 6 and Vega C.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
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.
Defense

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

By Jay Menon
India has signed an agreement with Japan to enhance cooperation in space exploration.
Defense

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

By Mark Carreau
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.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
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.
Defense

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

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.
Defense

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.
Workforce

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.
Defense

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

By Tony Osborne
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.
Defense

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

By Graham Warwick
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.
Aerospace

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.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
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.
Defense