Releasing pictures online of potential radar sites in the South China Sea could strengthen China’s operational strength there, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says.
The U.S. Navy says it has finalized the first eight in a series of more than two dozen planned foundational cybersecurity standards that will govern the vast majority of the sea service’s systems and programs.
China’s continued weapons buildup on artificial island features could give the country much greater control of the South China Sea and its trading lanes, says Adm. Harry Harris, the Pacific Commander for the U.S.
With the amount it spends on service contracts, lawmakers should look at requiring more Defense Department reporting for those transactions, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a recent report.
Australia is acting like a country increasingly worried about its security but willing to pay to do something about it—including drawing even closer to its ally the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.
Lawmakers draw battle lines on defense budget; FAA creates rulemaking committee for micro UAVs; Foreign Military Sales process remains slow; Culberson makes another attempt to allow the NASA administrator to serve 10 years.
House Republicans got scant support Feb. 25 for the details of their going-in plan to avoid a repeat of the space-policy upset that followed President Barack Obama’s decision to kill the Constellation family of deep-space human-exploration vehicles, but won endorsement for the basic idea from a pair of NASA veterans who lived through it.
With his U.S. record-setting 340-day mission to the International Space Station drawing to a close, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly can rest assured his next assignment is to reacclimate to life on Earth.
Iridium Communications Inc. has nixed plans to launch its first two Iridium NEXT satellites on a Russian Dnepr rocket in April, opting instead to lift a batch of 10 new-generation spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in July.
Australia is widening its options for sustaining its wing of strike aircraft into the 2030s to include unmanned systems, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting no longer considered the default choice.
Australia will employ an additional 1,700 people in intelligence, cyber and related fields as it strives to maintain what it calls decision-making superiority over possible adversaries.
Australia has increased its planned force of Boeing P-8 Poseidons from eight to 15 as a part of a policy of bolstering its maritime power that also includes a commitment to 12 submarines, a figure that was previously in doubt.
Australia will prepare for a capability in missile defense by upgrading surveillance and command systems as a basis for the possible acquisition of interceptor systems.
Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time €654 million ($720 million) charge last year, helping drive operating profit for 2015 down more than 12% to €1.7 billion.
Raytheon/Finmeccanica say what differentiates their candidate for the USAF T-X award is that it is operational, low-risk, affordable and safe, unlike the clean-sheet designs of their competitors.
An investigative team using social media and open-source intelligence has identified Russian military personnel potentially connected with the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
Airbus Defense and Space is hoping to deliver more than 20 A400M airlifters this year, but significant risks remain in the delivery of both the aircraft and its military capabilities.
Completion of a joint venture between the launch vehicle divisions of Airbus Defense and Space and Safran S.A. is being held up by regulatory approvals that, if delayed beyond April, could threaten the entry into service of Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6.
