Defense

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.

House members are looking for ways to harness commercial spacecraft for weather forecasting and other Earth-observation applications traditionally operated by the government.

Tough lessons from Afghanistan fuel next-generation virtual training targets.

PowerPoint and whiteboards don’t cut it for teaching the new generation to fly, crew and maintain aircraft. This is what the military and civilian aviation worlds are doing about it.

Then there was one: What could really be behind ULA’s decision not to compete against SpaceX?

Boeing looks forward to KC-46 aerial refueling demo after overcoming past technical, cost hurdles.

Smart bombs for Syria; U.S. Army adds to Lakota purchase; U.S. Navy tests Lrasm, and Turkey cancels missile defense buy from China.

Not all activist shareholders are Gordon Gekko, and not everything they represent is bad for the A&D industry.

Even though the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber is still in dispute, advocates for robust power projection are already mobilizing to define and deter reductions to the size of the future fleet.

Experts seem puzzled over when, where and how the global space industry will take over low Earth orbit tasks traditionally reserved for government space agencies.

The Asia-Pacific’s U.S. Task Force 72 aircraft fleet will be getting more P-8A Poseidons in the coming months as part of the nation’s regular cycle changes for the Navy’s new antisubmarine and intelligence-gathering patrol workhorses, says the task force commander.

Airbus Helicopters is to build a production line for its Super Puma helicopter in Romania.

Soon the U.S. Navy will be forced to decide between keeping a global force or maintaining its ships, aircraft and equipment, a CSBA report says.

The U.S. and South Korean navies completed the bilateral mine-countermeasures exercise Clear Horizon earlier this month.

The U.S. Navy and Congress are grappling with the decision to equip ships with an Aegis combat system that lacks the ability to perform ballistic-missile defense.

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.

As insurgents use drones for tactical missions, counter-drone systems deploy to neutralize them.

Denmark’s government is expected to recommend the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in December as the replacement for the F-16.

The compromise commercial-space law that received final congressional approval Monday night includes a provision that would-be space miners see as making it easier for them to raise funds and clear regulatory hurdles.

The U.S. Air Force’s first attempt at establishing a competition between launch upstart SpaceX and longtime monopoly player United Launch Alliance (ULA) has apparently fizzled before it started.

India’s GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 satellites—proposed to augment the country’s telecommunication, television services and in-orbit back-up system—will be launched in 2016 and 2017.

Germany is looking at acquiring the MBDA Brimstone high-precision close-air-support weapon for its Eurofighter Typhoon force.

The French air force destroyed a command center and a training camp in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa during the predawn hours of Nov. 17.

A group of nations led by the U.S. and Germany has submitted a proposal to the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) in Geneva to extend Ku- or Ka-band spectrum allocated for fixed-satellite services to unmanned aerial vehicles flying long-haul routes.

Debate continues in Congress about whether the U.S. Navy is following the right course in buying the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and follow-on frigates based on modified LCS designs.