The U.S. Defense Department plans to cut down on paperwork, redundant reviews and suffocating oversight that bogs down certain acquisition programs, Secretary Ashton Carter says.
The joint development and deployment of major U.S. military aircraft in the Asia-Pacific could prove vital in securing and strengthening trilateral relationships that tie together America, Australia and Japan, says Andrew Shearer, an expert says.
Airbus Defense and Space says it is working to resolve manufacturing faults affecting propeller gear boxes inside the TP400-D6 engines that power the A400M airlifter.
The U.S. Navy’s recent Ice Exercise 2016 showcased projects sponsored by the Office of Naval Research that included the use of aerial and space ice-measuring radar systems.
Plans to put U.S. government astronauts on commercial crew vehicles are raising difficulties in preparing the vehicles for flight, according to an experienced NASA astronaut who also served as an executive at SpaceX.
It is a spacecraft so huge that it can only be tested in pieces, a flagship astronomy mission so complex and cutting-edge that some of its subsystems have never flown in space.
Following a pat on the back to NASA for continued overall improvements in the cost and schedule performance of its major programs, the U.S. General Accountability Office warned the favorable five-year trend could reverse.
The concept is to launch groups of UAVs from large bomber or transport aircraft, or smaller fixed-wing platforms. These “gremlins” would operate in a distributed and cooperative way, Darpa says.
A webinar has been used to bring together supplier management representatives from Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Tunisian aerospace manufacturers.
The U.S. Navy continues to carve away at the proposed price for its Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), although some later testing and upgrades could boost the cost, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development plans to build an apparently full-scale mockup of its proposed stealthy design, for assessment of radar cross-section, and eight sub-scale test aircraft.
A clear challenge for China in using aircraft carriers in war is that they must be protected against submarine attack. The navy has long been weak in this area.
The Argentine government wants to revive the fortunes of the Fadea aircraft company by focusing on the training market, where the manufacturer has had some success.
Work, Dunford discuss improved intelligence analysis; Senate to ask TSA administrator about airport security; elements of NASA’s SLS face delays and cost growth.
Russia’s Progress 63 resupply mission lifted off for the International Space Station March 31, initiating a two-day journey with 3 tons of propellant, crew supplies and station hardware.
