Defense

Dscovr, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s inaugural space weather satellite, is prepared to become an operational solar sentry on July 27.

The U.S. Navy has no choice but to operate in a world where more countries are getting access to anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), says Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations.

The June 2015 launch failure of SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has jeopardized agency ISS program plans to equip the six-person orbiting research laboratory with two docking adaptors for future U.S. commercial crew capsules prior to the first test flight now planned for May 2017, NASA's IG says.

Trustees of The Aerospace Corporation picked Steve Isakowitz as president and CEO of the non-profit corporation which operates a federally funded research and development center in El Segundo, California, that advises the Air Force, NASA and other government agencies on aerospace technology.

The first article in a series, this is a primer on stealth technology, review of the radar cross-sections of fighter aircraft and analysis of how the differences affect detection ranges against state-of-the-art threat radars.

Boeing has tested an approach to active helicopter rotors it says avoids the performance-sapping drawbacks of previous designs.

Tom Gentile’s appointment as CEO of Spirit AeroSystems may be surprising, but it should be the last blast of proverbial fireworks in the company’s turnaround.

Some U.S. politicians are calling for restarting the F-22 line, citing its superiority to the F-35. We weigh the pros and cons of each aircraft.

U.S. Marine Corps and U.K. F-35Bs will land vertically on a pad of AM-2 aluminum matting at Royal Air Force Fairford during the Royal International Air Tattoo.

MDA's directed energy roadmap shows continued investment in an assortment of high-power laser technologies that will be married with an unmanned missile shooter in the fiscal 2021 timeframe.

The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to improve readiness levels for both its AV-8B Harrier jets and its CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters amid an increase in mishaps for the fleets.

CEO and President Eileen Drake is continuing the trimming and reorganization of Aerojet Rocketdyne, with the company announcing June 27 it will consolidate its six business units into two, Space and Defense.

A Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter successfully lifted the equivalent of two up-armored Humvees during recent testing in West Palm Beach, Florida.

NASA’s Curiosity rover, nearing the fourth anniversary of its drama-filled landing on Mars, has detected an unexpected mineral in the rock it is sampling as it methodically climbs Mount Sharp.

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.

The companies that lost out to Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA’s high-speed VTOL demonstrator have taken the wraps off their competing designs.

Air Force Special Operations Command is pushing industry to demonstrate an offensive laser weapon on an AC-130W by the turn of the decade.

The lead aircraft of a U.S. Army program to upgrade Beechcraft King Air 350ER-based MC-12Ws to the multimission Emarss airborne reconnaissance standard has flown for the first time.

The U.S. Navy’s fifth and final Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite is being raised to its final orbit after its June 24.

Pundits fear that British referendum could be catalyst for European disintegration.

The head of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has renewed his commitment to fielding an AC-130 “mini arsenal plane” equipped with a high-energy laser by the turn of the decade.

NASA has awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) a five-year, $196.3 million contract extension for operations of the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) through the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore.

The U.K.’s aerospace and defense industry has been left reeling after voters elected to ditch membership in the European Union.

India’s Nag—an indigenously-made, third-generation, anti-tank guided missile—is being prepared for induction into the country’s military forces, but with a slightly reduced range.