Defense

By Tony Osborne
The decision by offshore helicopter operator CHC to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will impact other industry players, Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense and Space’s electronics and border security (EBS) business will be relaunched under the new brand name Hensoldt in 2017.
Defense

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) and its branch clinics are helping aircraft pilots cut down on the noise and still communicate as needed.
Defense

Naval Sea Systems Command Expeditionary Missions Program Office, Visual Augmentation Systems program recently began to transition Wide Field of View night vision goggles to the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighters, Navy officials say.
Defense

Charles Beaudouin, head of the French army’s procurement arm STAT, focuses on getting what soldiers need when they need it, and not waiting until the technology is most advanced.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The coverage provided by the monthly Defense Technology International edition will be integrated into every issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology and available even more quickly.
Defense

Ground forces upgrade situational awareness and weapons accuracy in asymmetric combat with a range of advanced recon and fire control systems.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Despite potential limitations on exports, South Korea selects GE 414 engine for KF-X fighter.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Motor-glider experience prompts new developments in optionally piloted surveillance aircraft.
Defense

Tom Mayor
The unfolding revolution in the automotive industry is less about research than development—spotting and bringing together an array of externally sourced technologies.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
A fleet of aircraft and an air charter service are part of the Republican presidential candidates long—and very visible—association with aviation.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin is standing up its final assembly and support facility for the T-50A advanced trainer in Greenville, South Carolina, as the aircraft enters flight testing in South Korea ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition, expected to get underway late this year or early next.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The Russian state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, has pushed back the launch date for the next three-person International Space Station (ISS) crew from June 24 to July 7 to further check out a flight control system issue that could disrupt docking operations, the TASS news agency says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Boeing and Sikorsky have laid out their pitches for an expected German procurement of heavylift helicopters.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for a grounding of all European-registered H225/EC225 helicopters after Norwegian investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in a gearbox component from the aircraft that crashed in Norway in April.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army launched the in-development Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on May 25, hitting a moving truck target.
Defense

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) plans to review ScanEagle contract pricing in the wake of a Pentagon Inspector General (IG) investigation into program transactions.
Defense

Airbus Defense and Space is providing systems engineering support to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based startup that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to deliver a rover to the Moon’s surface by the end of 2017.
Defense

European nations seek to rebuild defense capabilities with joint programs and cooperative research.
Defense

A meta-skin developed by university researchers shows promise in suppressing radar signals and rendering objects invisible.
Defense

Contractor Rheinmetall proposes advanced technology as a key asset in countering threats to downsized military forces.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The HTT-40’s first flight | Support contract for aging Kuwaiti F/A-18s | Italian Reaper’s new RecceLite pod | Raytheon and UVision pursue U.S. Army contract
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s entry into DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Piaggio Aero’s prototype P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned aircraft has been lost after crashing into the sea off Sicily.
Defense