A series of drop tests of the small Prandtl-M from a balloon at high altitude—to simulate the atmosphere of Mars—are scheduled to begin later this year.
The Defense Department should help small businesses that do work for the Pentagon prepare against cyber threats, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, rolled out his command’s unmanned systems strategy earlier this month at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2015 Joint Undersea Warfare Conference.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts could mean a more balanced and joint Chinese military, says a recent online report posted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Days after the Norwegian air force publicly unveiled its first Lockheed Martin F-35A at Fort Worth, state broadcaster NRK confirmed that the nation’s military is considering a 10-aircraft cut to the planned force of 52 fighters.
South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program is likely to move slowly in 2016, with the finance ministry proposing funding that looks inadequate for beginning full-scale development.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking steps to establish a catalog of prequalified 3U and 6U CubeSat suppliers prepared to furnish their small satellites on a fixed price basis for a range of future missions.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 66 USS Gonzalez conducted testing of a UAV during a Composite Unit Training Exercise (Comptuex), U.S. Navy officials say.
U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) was deficient in its handling of requests for waivers and deferrals from certain operational test requirements for the SM-6 missile and a key system for identifying terrorists, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report says.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole earlier this month, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied, the Coast Guard says.
The recent appearance of the Chinese DF-21D antiship ballistic missile — the so-called “carrier killer” — in the recent parade of military force in Beijing failed to leave much of a mark, at least publicly, on the Pentagon.
Though not finished with formal testing, two new Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites have been used for operations, says Air Force Gen. John Hyten, who oversees Air Force Space Command.
Experts want further research to prevent contamination of the red planet’s little-understood “Special Regions” — areas potentially warm and wet enough for Earthly microbes to proliferate.
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will maintain the lead in air superiority over all comers for the next 20 to 30 years despite aggressive efforts emerging from new fighter technology in China, Russia and elsewhere, program officials claim.
