Defense

Saab wants to re-energize its attempt to join the small club of companies that produce antisubmarine warfare aircraft.

Boeing is urging customers considering ordering the P-8 Poseidon maritime aircraft to move before U.S. Navy contracts for the type dry up this decade, pushing production prices higher.

The world’s most capable thermal vacuum chamber is on track to receive the optical/instrument components of the James Webb Space Telescope for a critical round of early 2017 prelaunch testing.

Asia is showing rising interest in military adaptations of high-performance business aircraft, particularly for maritime missions, Gulfstream says.

Back-to-back launches from Russia and Japan early Feb. 17 deployed a pair of scientific spacecraft for the European and Japanese space agencies that are designed to monitor Earth’s oceans and explore the X-ray universe, respectively.

Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton UAV, built for the U.S. Navy, has successfully completed its Operational Assessment (OA).

The U.S. Navy awarded contracts for work on different surface warships with a potential combined worth of about $3.5 billion earlier this month.

North Korea will continue with missile and nuclear tests, the Pentagon says, but U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the nation is prepared.

On the sidelines of this week's air show, Aviation Week editors discuss whether Airbus really has the edge over Boeing it claims, and what defense hardware is in high demand in the Asia Pacific region.

Saab is unveiling the GlobalEye airborne surveillance system at the Singapore Airshow, and saying a lot more about its technologies and capabilities than was released at the Dubai Airshow.

To understand the future of air-to-air warfare in Asia, take a careful look at the flying and static displays at the Singapore Airshow.

A Northrop Grumman-led team chosen last year to provide the U.S. Air Force’s first Long-range Strike Bombers (LRS-B) enjoyed a political and financial boost Feb. 16 when congressional arbiters of federal contract protests affirmed the armed service’s decision.

Saab is introducing gallium-nitride (GaN) technology to airborne early warning and control (AEW&C), with a multi-mission aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that combines aerial, ground and sea surveillance, with signals intelligence as an option.

Charles Elachi, the longtime director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s National Space Trophy.

U.K. aerospace and defense company BAE Systems has named Charles Woodburn to take on the newly created role of chief operating officer.

Engineers at Millennium Space Systems have started integrating the spacecraft bus that will host an experimental Overhead Persistent Infrared sensor for the U.S. Air Force.

Airbus Defence and Space has secured its first order of the year for the C295W transport and mission aircraft, with Mali becoming the 23rd nation to order.

Using an unmanned aircraft for refueling or tanking missions is a good first step toward more advanced missions for the U.S. Navy, analysts say.

There is growing interest in Aegis Ashore installations on U.S. land and abroad, says U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring.

India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.

National Intelligence Director James Clapper has drawn a new distinction between intelligence satellite images and the intelligence products that are derived from those images.

India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.

At China’s biggest military parade of recent times last Sept. 3, marking the end of World War II, Chinese President and PLA leader Xi Jinping announced that the PLA will shed 300,000 troops, signaling the start of a long-awaited structural reform of the world’s largest armed force.

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