Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries are making a surprise pitch of their Williams International FJ44-4M-powered Freedom Trainer for the T-X program.
President-elect Donald Trump's Dec. 12 Twitter attack on F-35 costs is not the first time his tweets have had an impact on defense stocks, following on the heels of his Boeing Air Force One comments the previous week.
New findings by NASA’s long-running Dawn mission suggest that ice lies just a meter or so below the cratered surface of the large main belt asteroid Ceres.
NASA leads the rankings among the largest U.S. federal agencies as the best place to work in 2016, the fifth year in a row it has earned the top distinction.
June 2, 2016, will forever be remembered as an unlucky day for the U.S. military’s premier flying aerobatic demonstration teams, the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds.
The U.S. State Department is reviewing the potential sale of precision munitions to Saudi Arabia, in light of concerns about thousands of civilian deaths due to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.
The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy have intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 Dual 1 for the first time.
Former Indian air force chief faces charges related to the AW101 helicopter scandal; the Philippines builds a fleet of FA-50 fighters; Lithuania beefs up surface-to-air missile force; and the U.S. State Department reviews munition sales to Saudi Arabia.
Israel is showing the aviation industry a new use for noise-reducing and efficiency-boosting performance-based navigation procedures: avoiding the rocket’s red glare.
The Boeing E-3 Sentry’s 1970s-vintage cockpit gets a facelift to enable free access to international airspace and reduce the aircrew required on the flight deck.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Sessions urges more peaceful relations with Russia, American Airlines faces tarmac delay fines and Warren joins the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Europe’s Galileo global positioning, navigation and timing satellite constellation is to begin providing services to users on Dec. 15, 17 years after the European Commission approved the project.
U.S. Marine Forces Japan has suspended Bell-Boeing MV-22 flying operations after one of its assigned tiltrotors, worth about $80 million, crash landed in shallow waters off the coast of Okinawa due to a midair refueling mishap.
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft soared close to Jupiter for a third time Dec. 11 with all but one of eight science instruments and cameras gathering data on features hidden below the planet’s colorful cloud tops.
The aerospace and defense supply chain stands at another inflection point for companies, especially at lower tiers. Many face pressures to grow or get out, analysts and executives say.
India’s state-run space agency has partnered with an Indian defense company on the construction of new navigation satellites—part of a broader effort to engage with the country’s private sector.
During the Kenyan leg of her visit, Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt met with the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Defence, Raychelle Omamo, to discuss the UK and Kenya's long-standing Defence relationship, and the pair spoke with influential women working in the Kenyan security sector.
Sens. Cochran and Wicker lend Republican clout to the company’s low-risk entry for the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer competition under a Trump presidency.
Boeing plans to move the headquarters of its defense operation from St. Louis to the Washington, D.C., area in January, basing top executives just a short walk away from their Pentagon customer.
