Australia will stick to its policy of raising military spending to 2% of gross domestic product (GPD) by fiscal 2023-24 in a defense white paper the government is due to issue on Feb. 25, local media report.
With the U.S. Navy including $13.2 billion across the future years’ defense plan for the first of the Ohio-class strategic submarine replacement force, lawmakers are starting to talk more about the nation’s nuclear deterrence force recapitalization needs.
Engineers at this NASA field center are developing an operational laser communications concept that would combine radio frequency (RF) and optical communications in a single lightweight unit to deliver streaming video from Mars by the late 2020s.
French defense electronics giant Thales Group achieved a record order intake of €18.9 billion ($20.8 billion) last year and solid growth with turnover of €14.1 billion, boosted in part by several large defense and space contracts signed in 2015.
When research organization Battelle unveiled its DroneDefender counter to small UAVs at the Association of the U.S. Army show in Washington last October, the Internet went wild.
India has successfully tested its first indigenously developed and most powerful cryogenic rocket engine, moving a step closer to launching heavier satellites into orbit.
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have been awarded contracts for the next stage of a Darpa program to develop a guided projectile that would give medium-caliber guns missile-like accuracy against unmanned aircraft, rockets and fast attack craft.
With the deadline for hobbyists to register their small UAVs now past, the FAA will find out which of its approaches – education or enforcement – will have the most beneficial impact on airspace safety.
For many observers outside of the aerospace and defense world, a purported merger of multi-industrial conglomerates Honeywell International and United Technologies Corp. (UTC) may spark curiosity and the short question, “Why?”
Raytheon is emphasizing its integration and training experience, and the proven performance of the M-346 jet trainer, as it takes over the lead in Finmeccanica’s bid for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced pilot training program.
Virgin Galactic says dramatic improvements to the SpaceShipTwo hybrid rocket motor will significantly shorten the test flight program for the company’s new suborbital vehicle which was unveiled on Feb. 19.
With few new-start programs planned, Darpa’s fiscal 2017 budget request is focused on advancing several large demonstrations and transitioning technologies to their intended customers.
NASA will proceed with development of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), considered by the astronomy community a high priority successor to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
“DOD’s reports generally did not meet the requirements to include an evaluation of options for improving homeland missile defense and were not submitted by the required deadlines,” GAO says in a recent audit.
Even though the GAO has sided with the Air Force and its incumbent bomber provider, a contentious atmosphere means we have probably not heard the end of this dispute.
Dutch prosecutors hope to confirm by this summer the launch site of the Buk surface-to-air missile that shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, killing 298 people.
The first of Orbital ATK’s enhanced automated Cygnus resupply capsules departed the International Space Station laden with trash early Feb. 19 for a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after being docked to the orbiting lab’s U.S. segment for nearly 2 1/2 months.
The Defense Department is not conducting oversight to ensure that defense agencies are reporting counterfeit parts as required, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report says.
Responding to a Wall Street analyst’s question regarding a recent Pentagon comment about the construction of the next-generation aircraft carrier thus far being “undisciplined,” Huntington Ingalls Industries CEO Michael Petters says the follow-on ship work will be better.
The radar for the GlobalEye is already running, in rooftop tests at Saab’s Gothenburg site, and the first Global 6000 platform for the UAE is due to arrive in Linkoping soon for modifications.
