Defense

By Tony Osborne
Ed Strongman, the former U.K. chief test pilot on the Airbus A400M airlifter, has died of cancer. He was 67.
Defense

The U.S. Navy continues to carve away at the proposed price for its Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), although some later testing and upgrades could boost the cost, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development plans to build an apparently full-scale mockup of its proposed stealthy design, for assessment of radar cross-section, and eight sub-scale test aircraft.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
A clear challenge for China in using aircraft carriers in war is that they must be protected against submarine attack. The navy has long been weak in this area.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Argentine government wants to revive the fortunes of the Fadea aircraft company by focusing on the training market, where the manufacturer has had some success.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Work, Dunford discuss improved intelligence analysis; Senate to ask TSA administrator about airport security; elements of NASA’s SLS face delays and cost growth.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Brazil’s economic problems are causing the country’s defense ministry to reprioritize a number of key procurement and upgrade programs.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress 63 resupply mission lifted off for the International Space Station March 31, initiating a two-day journey with 3 tons of propellant, crew supplies and station hardware.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Peruvian air force (FAP) is to purchase as many as six Lockheed C-130Js and up to eight more Finmeccanica C-27J Spartans by 2021 as part of a radical overhaul of its air transport fleet.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The latest in a series of test satellites that has advanced the art of space-based navigation is being planned by the U.S. Air Force in a bid to make GPS more resilient in contested environments.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for development of a multi-band radar-absorbing structure for a mockup of an unmanned strike aircraft that has been proposed for service beginning in 2030.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.K. Royal Air Force has tested Finmeccanica’s BriteCloud miniaturized expendable active decoy in formal tests against a range of threat emitters during exercises in the U.S.
Defense

In partnership with the Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA), the USAID-financed Business Reform & Competitiveness Project (BRCP) sponsored a pioneering webinar to bring together Supplier Management representatives from Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Tunisian aerospace manufacturers.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Industry is being asked for recommendations on how to demonstrate the U.S. Air Force’s Loyal Wingman concept for manned/unmanned teaming of fighters, and which aircraft to use for tests.
Defense

By Graham Warwick, Michael Bruno
After years of shunning aerospace as too slow and too expensive, venture capitalists are suddenly interested—and investing. Meanwhile, big aerospace corporations and the U.S. Defense Department are looking to bring “disruptive” commercial thinking in house. Executive Editor Jim Asker, Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno and Graham Warwick, the managing editor for technology, discuss whether the two cultures can ever mix.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
India-Russia team up on helo sustainment; sale of P-8s to U.K. advances; Lockheed receives F-35 modernization modification; and Space Fence opens test facility.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Starburst Accelerator is a two-year-old global A&D and security technology incubator and investor matchmaker—the first dedicated to the aerospace sector.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Suddenly, venture capitalism appears to be invading the Western A&D sector.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Lockheed Martin expects a green light from the country’s Defense Program Execution Committee later this year, which would result in requests for proposals and information during 2017.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Israel’s Rafael is finalizing an upgrade for the Colombian air force’s UH-60L Black Hawks that will allow them to fire the family of Spike air-to-ground missiles.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Britain may look at sending aircraft to the multi-national Cruzex exercise in Brazil, Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, deputy commander of operations, told journalists at the Fidae air show here March 30.
Defense

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) will fold a planned robotic satellite-servicing demonstration mission into its portfolio next week.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress 61 resupply capsule departed the International Space Station early March 30, clearing the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module for the arrival of the Progress 63 freighter later this week.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A U.K. company will be the first operator of Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 hybrid airship.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
A biofuels pilot plant to be built in Queensland by Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will supply fuels for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy and could lead to a commercial-scale production facility that would also produce aviation biofuels for airlines.
Defense