Defense

Australia has awarded a two-year contract extension for BAE Systems to maintain Hawk Mk. 127 jet trainers.

The scramjet propulsion experiment will be carried by the RH-560 two-stage sounding rocket launched from Sriharikota spaceport in south India on Aug. 28.

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Critics of counterinsurgency say it represents the triumph of tactics over strategy. Looking at the Air Force’s mooted OA-X and A-X2 procurement programs, and the A-10 retirement debate, one can see exactly the same issues in play.

Next-gen rotorcraft engine awards; U.S. Army seeks help countering UAS; More C295s for Indonesia; Lockheed tests counter-rocket interceptor

According to data from Aviation Week’s latest survey of A&D young professionals, money talks.

Tuition reimbursement starts emerging as workforce tool, but companies are keen on keeping coursework relevant.

Connecting a corporation’s mission statement to its workforce has new relevance and holds opportunity.

The aircraft is believed to have taken off at around 12:48 p.m. Pacific time Aug. 24 and remained airborne for at least two hours.

The U.S. Air Force is at odds with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over divesting the A-10 attack aircraft.

Mexico’s Pegaso has become the second oil and gas helicopter operator to take delivery of Airbus Helicopters’ twin-engine super-medium H175.

A British-led team of international astronomers has discovered a rocky, Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System.

The prototype Airlander 10 hybrid airship was damaged in a hard landing Aug. 24 during its second flight after a rebuild.

India is working to launch 70 satellites in the next three years, with plans to lift at least four satellites by year’s end, a senior space scientist says.

North Korea appears to have taken a large step toward complicating Japanese and South Korean defenses by successfully testing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

The CEO of Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace has resigned, just weeks after masterminding the company’s restructuring.

While industry retirements are of concern, so too is low attrition, especially as Silicon Valley muscles into A&D’s wheelhouse.

In a memo sent to Defense Department leadership last week, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester cautioned the F-35 still has many obstacles to overcome before full warfighting capability.

NASA is planning to build a powerful new upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in time for its second flight.

Lockheed Martin has flight-tested an improved version of its Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) missile in its final firing under a U.S. Army program to develop technology for a counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) interceptor.

NASA has re-established contact with Stereo-B, one of two extended-mission spacecraft launched into solar orbit nearly a decade ago to study the nature of coronal mass ejections, the solar wind and the Sun’s far side.

The U.S. Army wants to urgently upgrade up to 10 of its Lockheed Martin TPQ-53 mobile counterfire radars to detect, track and identify unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Wichita-based Greenwich AeroGroup has sold Aero Precision Industries International, DAC International and NASAM to a fund managed by Odyssey Investment Partners.

Space company Rocket Lab has installed the launch platform at its purpose-built operating site in the Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island, clearing the way for the first of three planned test firings before the start of commercial services in 2017.

The FAA and the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Commerce are planning to create a new cross-government program to investigate replacement options for long-range, short-range and weather radar systems supporting the aviation sector in the continental U.S.