The U.S. Navy recently tested its newly developed Common Control System (CCS) with a submersible unmanned vehicle during a series of underwater missions at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport in Puget Sound, Washington.
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The program is still on track for an unmanned trip around the Moon in the fall of 2018 with some extra features enabled in part by a $174 million congressional funding boost.
As the U.S. and its coalition partners intensify the pace of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon plans to bolster Baghdad’s arsenal with nearly $2 billion in weaponry, equipment and logistics support for Iraqi F-16s.
U.S. and Japanese naval aircraft figured heavily in the recent Guam Exercise, an annual bilateral training exercise between the U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
With a new Pentagon clarion call ringing for additional and more realistic wargaming, the Naval Postgraduate School has started to get its officer students designing, executing and evaluating scenarios just now being developed by the Navy brass.
Sluggish aircraft industry growth is threatened by several looming macroeconomic trends, and the jetliner primes’ lofty production goals appear out of line with economic reality.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus launched the service’s “Great Green Fleet” earlier his month, touting the big move toward alternative fuels as a way to save money, make ships better in combat and increase the Navy’s ability to innovate.
Based on initial indications, the problem occurred due to an apparent failure to follow procedures during an operational test of the port and starboard main propulsion diesel engines, the Navy says.
A new tribute to NASA’s space shuttle era featuring the agency’s original Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will open for public display adjacent to Johnson Space Center on Jan. 23.
Although Australian defense officials are keen to increase the army’s Chinook fleet to 10 aircraft from the current seven, the defense department in Canberra says it has not yet decided even to ask the government to approve buying more of the aircraft.
Eleven NASA-funded investigations will probe the health and performance issues expected to confront astronauts assigned to future deep space exploration missions.
Bell is testing new rotor blades and an infrared suppression system for its V-22 Osprey as it pushes to modernize and improve the tiltrotor’s reliability.
Aurora Flight Sciences plans to offer its 120-hr.-endurance Orion unmanned aircraft to meet an expected U.S. Air Force requirement to purchase ISR services to augment its overstretched General Atomics Predator/Reaper fleet.
