While the U.S. Marine Corps seems to be generally on the right track with the acquisition of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), there is some risk, the GAO says.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will provide safety training and other support services to the Houston Airport System under a Space Act Agreement signed Nov. 4.
The Spanish government has given the green light to the country’s defense ministry to purchase General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper medium altitude, long endurance UAVs.
The French and U.K. governments have marked the fifth anniversary of the Lancaster House defense treaties by signing an agreement on the creation of missile centers of excellence.
Fernando Alonso, who took over the division in March, says he and his team have stabilized the industrial layout of the A400M, paving the way for increased rates of production and focusing to bring tactical capabilities on the aircraft on stream.
Leaders representing all eight coast guard agencies of the Arctic nations signed a joint statement officially establishing the Arctic Coast Guard Forum.
Australia, finding itself unaccustomedly close to a major theater of potential hostilities, is inclined to offer more support to the U.S., including access to its territory.
The head of Airbus Defense and Space’s military aircraft division says that the aerial refueling of helicopters by the company’s A400M airlifter is now the subject of a research project after admitting it will be impossible to achieve in the aircraft’s current configuration.
This F-35A completed the first three airborne gunfire bursts from its internal four-barrel 25mm Gatling gun system embedded in the left wing of the aircraft.
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Gulfstream G550-based Multimission Airborne Reconnaissance Surveillance System airborne ground surveillance system is now in full development.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has emphasized the need for the “so-called six-party talks to call for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
The head of the company’s military aircraft division, Fernando Alonso, says the aircraft could be used more flexibly while flying racetrack patterns in the sky waiting to provide fighters with fuel.
BAE Systems is partnering with air-breathing rocket developer Reaction Engines as part of an agreement under which BAE will acquire a 20% share of the U.K.-based company for £20.6 million.
Intended to merge the interests of scientists and those responsible for the safety and productivity of the astronauts assigned to the initial year’s long journeys to the red planet, the four-day exercise produced passionate presentations from science teams.
As Adm. Harry Harris, U.S. Pacific commander, prepares to make his first trip to Beijing, relations between the U.S. and China are striking discordant notes.
NASA has released its first images of the geyser-like spray emerging from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, two days after the Cassini mission spacecraft dashed through it.
