Software developers at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory will support NASA’s Johnson Space Center in designing and operating avionics software for human-rated spacecraft traveling beyond low Earth orbit under a new $38.7 million contract.
John Grunsfeld, a five-time space shuttle astronaut who specialized in hands-on upgrades to the Hubble Space Telescope, will retire from NASA at the end of the month.
The U.S. Navy has put together a submarine-building strategy that combines the efforts for the Virginia-class attack boats and the Ohio-class nuclear-missile-armed vessels.
Honeywell International’s CEO announced April 4 that Darius Adamczyk has been appointed to the newly created role of president and chief operating officer.
Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus recorded operating profits of CHF191 million ($199 million) last year despite spending a record CHF150 million on research, development and new infrastructure.
A consortium of AAR Airlift, British International Helicopters and Air Rescue Systems has begun search and rescue (SAR) and support helicopter services to U.K. forces in the Falkland Islands following the retirement of the Westland Sea King.
The U.S. Defense Department plans to cut down on paperwork, redundant reviews and suffocating oversight that bogs down certain acquisition programs, Secretary Ashton Carter says.
The joint development and deployment of major U.S. military aircraft in the Asia-Pacific could prove vital in securing and strengthening trilateral relationships that tie together America, Australia and Japan, says Andrew Shearer, an expert says.
Airbus Defense and Space says it is working to resolve manufacturing faults affecting propeller gear boxes inside the TP400-D6 engines that power the A400M airlifter.
The U.S. Navy’s recent Ice Exercise 2016 showcased projects sponsored by the Office of Naval Research that included the use of aerial and space ice-measuring radar systems.
Plans to put U.S. government astronauts on commercial crew vehicles are raising difficulties in preparing the vehicles for flight, according to an experienced NASA astronaut who also served as an executive at SpaceX.
It is a spacecraft so huge that it can only be tested in pieces, a flagship astronomy mission so complex and cutting-edge that some of its subsystems have never flown in space.
Following a pat on the back to NASA for continued overall improvements in the cost and schedule performance of its major programs, the U.S. General Accountability Office warned the favorable five-year trend could reverse.
The concept is to launch groups of UAVs from large bomber or transport aircraft, or smaller fixed-wing platforms. These “gremlins” would operate in a distributed and cooperative way, Darpa says.
A webinar has been used to bring together supplier management representatives from Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Tunisian aerospace manufacturers.
