The U.S. Air Force and Navy service secretaries and members of Congress have complained processing is so slow that U.S. businesses stand to lose Foreign Military Sales because the process is so slow.
The Harpoon Block II+ missile completed another major flight test May 17, setting the stage for upcoming operational tests in another month, says Capt. Jaime Engdahl, U.S. Navy Precision Strike Weapons program manager.
Industry proposals due May 23 could lead to a Mars orbiter launched in 2022 that could help NASA find near-surface ice deposits to support a “semi-permanent” human base in an area that could also sustain life or fossil evidence that it once existed.
Sweden’s investment in new Gripen fighters and diesel-electric submarines is being driven forward by increased Russian aggression in the Baltics, the country’s defense minister says.
NASA and German space agency DLR will jointly sponsor six space analog research efforts selected to assess the effects of the deep space environment on astronaut cognition, sleep and team functioning during missions lasting months to years.
To address the need for greater offensive missile power required to accommodate the call for more naval “distributive lethality,” the U.S. Navy will likely rely more on demand from the field than the normal Pentagon acquisition process, says Gerard Hueber, Raytheon Missiles Systems vice president.
France’s defense procurement agency DGA conducted a first test flight of the Neuron unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator on May 17.
India has advanced the test launch of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) to next week – a mission that will mark a big step toward achieving the two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) launch potential.
The inauguration of a new Taiwanese president is resurrecting concerns of additional cross-Strait tensions, a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report says.
A multi-national science team has made the first-ever orbital detection of magnetic reconnection, the previously theorized explosive process that convert stored magnetic energy from the Sun and Earth into kinetic energy and heat.
Governments are looking for ways to work around disruptions in service, increasingly caused by proliferating equipment that can jam and spoof GPS signals.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Aurora Flight Sciences bring computer science to bear on the problem of ensuring software-heavy unmanned aircraft behave as they are supposed to.
The U.S. Navy plans to send out requests for information (RFIs) in the coming weeks for the second increment of its Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) program, says Capt. John Bailey, program manager for the service’s Airborne Electronic Attack Systems.
Recent missile tests show marked improvement for the AIM-9X and AIM-120 missiles, says Capt. Jim Stoneman, program manager for the U.S. Navy air-to-air missile office.
Parker Aerospace has exclusively licensed an environmentally friendly fuel-tank inerting technology that does not use engine bleed air or vent unburned fuel vapor in flight.
Within two years of the J-20’s first flight, China tested a second next-generation fighter prototype. Referred to as the FC-31, the prototype is similar in size to a U.S. F-35 fighter and appears to incorporate design characteristics similar to the J-20, according to a Pentagon report.
U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly urged graduates to find the courage to risk failure at times in their career pursuits and look out for their home planet in a weekend commencement address at the University of Houston.
India has successfully conducted the final test of its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile as part of its bid to develop a multi-layered ballistic missile defense system.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station began a three-day series of 17 CubeSat deployments on May 16, as the six-person orbiting lab embarked on its 100,000th orbit of the Earth.
FAA tests UAS counters; ADS-B in a tube for BVLOS; persistent stare from a Cessna; ship landing system that can see; navigating undersea by acoustic GPS.
The commanders of both air arms signed a letter of intent on May 5 that paves the way to the creation of a new exercise that will “teach selected fighter pilots technical and tactical skills” for the F-35.
