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.
DARPA uses machine learning advances to improve automatic target recognition, helping pilots make decisions in high-speed combat against enemy air defenses.
Chinese researchers are developing a vision-based system for autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) in which both the tanker and receiver are unmanned aircraft.
Agricultural aviation is a market expected to be affected more significantly that most by growing use of unmanned aircraft for task ranging from aerial mapping to crop spraying.
LCC 20 USS Mount Whitney, the U.S. 6th Fleet’s flagship, became the first amphibious command ship to have an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor land on its flight deck earlier this month.
When a small plastic component broke recently in a vital piece of calibration equipment used to maintain readiness aboard a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship, it looked like the pilots and air crews were out of luck.
A guaranteed funding stream still eludes the Pentagon to develop and build an Ohio-class replacement submarine fleet for the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile boats, and it is putting the whole submarine future fleet acquisition into question.
Boeing moves into development of the Active Parallel Actuator Subsystem to enable Chinook helicopters to be flown to their performance limits while improving safety and reducing wear and tear on components.
The HIFiRE program is designed to explore the fundamental science of hypersonic flight and pave the way for future generations of high-speed propulsion systems, vehicles and weapons.
Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee handed NASA a $223 million increase in its $19.5 billion spending bill for fiscal 2017 Tuesday, generously funding NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion deep-space exploration vehicles.
The transformative CubeSat platform has yet to reach its full space science potential, a goal that can be best achieved through thoughtful oversight at the national level, according to a two-year, multidisciplinary assessment from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
European launch consortium Arianespace successfully lifted two Galileo satellites atop a Soyuz rocket May 24 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, marking another milestone in Europe’s effort to create an autonomous positioning, navigation and timing constellation.
The search may have begun for its replacement, but Textron Systems’ RQ-7 Shadow is set to be the U.S. Army’s primary tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for another 20 years.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (Plaaf) is catching up quickly with Western forces, the Pentagon says in its latest annual report on the Chinese military.
With the U.S. Navy awarding Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) a $152 million contract for advance planning for the construction of the aircraft carrier CVN 80 Enterprise, the company is gearing up to design the ship in a whole new way.
Optimized for U.S. Marine Corps aviation, the amphibious assault ship LHA 6 USS America regained its flight-deck recertification for launching and recovering aircraft earlier this month off the coast of its San Diego homeport, moving one step closer to joining operations with Amphibious Squadron 3 and Expeditionary Strike Group 3.
