Top U.S. officials seek to balance the use of government-made spy satellites with new commercial developments in imagery and intelligence collection and analysis.
Darpa’s new competition to build and fly the XS-1 experimental spaceplane requires bidders to submit a plan to transition the vehicle to a commercial business model.
Approval to begin the definition phase of the Future Fighter Capability program is scheduled for 2017, leading to a request for proposals in 2017-19 and contract award in 2018-20.
Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor have reportedly impounded the third prototype, preventing it from being shipped to the U.S. for flight testing.
Researchers say data from a successful Mach 7.5 flight test will help designers of future hypersonic vehicles and weapons more accurately predict the behavior of the boundary layer, one of the great areas of uncertainty still remaining in the high-speed flight regime.
Flight tests of an extremely high frequency through-weather targeting sensor developed by Raytheon are planned for late this year under Darpa’s Video Synthetic Aperture Radar program
Flight decks of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are to be protected from damage by the exhaust from Lockheed Martin F-35Bs using a U.K.-developed metal coating.
Japan and Italy are partnering with NASA to fly three CubeSats beyond Earth orbit on the U.S. space agency’s inaugural flight of a new Space Launch System (SLS) in 2018.
The U.S. Navy successfully validated significant progression in the Fire Control Improvement Process (FCLIP) program through a live-fire test involving the Ship’s Self Defense System (SSDS) and Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Weapons System at Point Mugu, California, Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) says.
Bitter experience led the U.S. Army to plan a 20-year program to field an advanced high-speed rotorcraft. Industry insists it can move faster—and needs to, to protect the program from budget changes.
Once classified, the U-2’s Senior Year Electro-optical Reconnaissance System—UTC Aerospace Systems’ SYERS—has added capabilities while spawning derivatives that equip a range of platforms.
Raytheon’s MTS is the sensor ball on a wide range of platforms. Now the company is leveraging that real estate to bring onboard new targeting capabilities.
NASA and Bigelow Aerospace halted a first attempt to extend the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module early May 26 when the flexible enclosure grew only a few inches before exceeding the anticipated internal pressure.
The U.S. Navy is struggling to meet traditional service readiness needs for aerial missions, says Capt. Randy Stearns, commodore for the Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic.
General Electric has won the competition to supply engines for the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter, beating rival Eurojet for a program that may require more than 300 combat turbofans.
The U.S. Army should be used for more “coastal artillery” missions, including attacking enemy forces at sea in places like the Asia-Pacific region, says Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the Pacific Command (Pacom).
The first aerospace challenge to be launched by Airbus Group and Local Motors has produced the biggest response yet seen by the U.S.-based global crowdsourced vehicle design specialist.
The winner of the contract, worth $2.9 billion, would be in charge of some of the nation’s most vital national security work —the non-nuclear engineering development of all U.S. nuclear weapons and systems of integration of the weapons with delivery vehicles.
