Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force’s research and acquisition bureaucracy will play only a supporting role as the service’s energy office leads flight demonstration.

After three decades of studies, the BWB will finally become full-scale as JetZero and Scaled Composites ramp up for a multirole U.S. Air Force project.

The Pentagon and Congress must keep in mind shareholder partners and their influence on the behavior of public company management.

Sikorsky has received a $2.7 billion contract for the next two production lots of its CH-53K Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopter.

An initial U.S. military assessment has concluded Yevgeny Prigozhin likely died in an aircraft crash inside Russia on Aug. 23, but the aircraft was not shot down.

Rocket Lab took another step toward reusing its Electron small-satellite launch vehicles by flying a recovered engine for the first time.

The U.S. will begin to train Ukrainian pilots and maintainers on the F-16 later this year as the Pentagon seeks to accelerate adoption of the Fighting Falcon.

All five bids were opened during a meeting of a working group composed of directorates from four Bulgarian ministries.

Thrusters on the International Space Station Russian segment’s Zvezda service module were commanded to fire for an orbital debris avoidance maneuver.

The first and second stages of the Collima-1 rocket performed normally, but the “emergency blasting system” malfunctioned.

South Korean researchers have developed a humanoid robot capable of understanding flight manuals and flying an aircraft without cockpit modifications.

Norway will become the third country to agree to send F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force.

India has carried out the first live firing of the indigenously developed Astra air-to-air missile from its HAL Tejas fighter.

India trumped a Russian effort to conduct the first in situ science experiments in a water-bearing region of the Moon.

UK-based defense contractor paid a premium for the Ball business with an eye on the fast-growing space systems segment.

With their six-month, four-person SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the ISS drawing to a close, two of the U.S. flyers praised their NASA crewmate Frank Rubio.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the proposed sale, starting a mandatory review period for lawmakers.

ClearSpace says a leftover payload adapter floating in Earth’s orbit, that it planned to remove from space, has been hit by another piece of junk.

The capital investments by Boeing are supporting the company's "future franchise" programs, which possibly include the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly died in the crash of an Embraer business jet in Russia on Aug. 23.

India made history on Aug. 23 by becoming the first country to land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole.

Russia’s Progress MS-24 resupply mission was on course to reach the seven-person International Space Station late Aug. 24.

The Indonesian military's agreement to acquire the Black Hawks—which Aviation Week understands could cover the purchase of 24 S-70Ms—is not set in stone.

AeroVironment plans to buy Tomahawk Robotics, a developer of software and hardware to control multiple tactical uncrewed air and ground vehicles at once.

Umbra wins a contract to study how its advanced space radar technologies could be used in the USAF shift to space for its moving-target indication mission.