Defense

Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye design bureau has been authorized to establish a launch base for the Cyclone 4 rocket in North America.

Lockheed Martin and Leidos are serving as the latest examples of how a business unit sale can mess up an expected government contract, just by changing owners in the middle of bidding.

India is working to engage its private sector in satellite manufacturing and double its satellite launch rate, the country’s top scientist says.

British helicopter provider Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore has been chosen as the operator of Northern Ireland’s future air ambulance helicopters.

General Electric on Sept. 6 announced plans to acquire two European suppliers of additive manufacturing for $1.4 billion.

The Pentagon and Air Force still have not released the cost of the weapon known as ICBM-X, but an estimate may be available within months.

Flights of Elbit’s long-endurance Hermes demonstrate potential commercial applications for large UAS in agriculture and infrastructure inspection.

The space infrastructure on which America’s highly networked armed forces depend is resilient but not invulnerable.

Sonic boom and turbulence; origami morphing structures; damage-indicating paint; interior inspection by UAS; Phantom Eye becomes museum exhibit.

With a successful launch and transit, InSight would reach Mars for a landing on Nov. 26, 2018.

The U.S. Defense Department’s acquisition executive has signed off on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program’s entry into technology maturation.

The aircraft disembarked from Patuxent River, Maryland, on Aug. 30 aboard an Aussie-owned Boeing C-17.

U.S. warships and submarines could soon employ Raytheon’s Tomahawk Land Attack Missile Block IV against enemy surface vessels.

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has begun an investigation into the cause of the hard landing that damaged the aircraft during its second post-rebuild flight.

Japan would purchase six Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings under the budget request that the defense ministry has submitted for the fiscal year beginning in April 2017.

The Perlan 2 stratospheric glider has arrived in Argentina to begin flight testing aimed at breaking the world altitude record for gliders of 50,671 ft.—set in Argentina in August 2006 by the Perlan 1—en route to achieving the goal of flying at 90,000 ft.

Led by UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous, a new trend has introduced multiple types of drones deployed with the UN stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali.

Elbit Systems of America is drawing up plans to offer commercial services using a company-owned fleet of Hermes 450 large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

The Royal Australian Navy plans to acquire unmanned helicopters as part of experiments aimed at fielding an operational shipborne surveillance system within 10 years.

Failing to sustain the island nation will only accelerate the “China Dream” in which Beijing diminishes all democracies, not just Taiwan.

As SpaceX begins investigating the causes of the Sept. 1 accident that destroyed a Falcon 9 and its payload, questions are mounting over the near- and far-term implications of the failure for the launch company, its commercial customers, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.

NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins retracted an aging, deactivated 44-ft.-long International Space Station thermal control system radiator during a Sept. 1 spacewalk.

A cubesat from a team at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, has been selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the first to be launched under the KiboCUBE program.

Raytheon Missile Systems is one flight test away from securing its second production lot for the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, which buys 250 units of the network-enabled, all-weather glide bomb.

An attack version of the Lockheed Martin-Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainer aircraft could be next in line to receive an airworthiness appraisal from the U.S. Air Force.