Congress plans to raise its NASA appropriation for fiscal 2016 to $19.285 billion, $1.285 billion more than the agency received in fiscal 2015 and $785 million more than requested.
Airbus Defense and Space has received a firm order for an additional eight aircraft from the French defense procurement agency, the DGA, bringing the total aircraft on order from the French air force to nine.
NASA needs more rigor in the selection and funding of the advanced technologies it pursues to achieve its most challenging goals, an audit by the agency’s IG says.
If innovation is the defense buzzword of 2015, Northrop Grumman is eager to point out its strengths in pushing the boundaries of aerospace technologies.
As debate continues about funding for the future American nuclear ballistic missile-armed SSBN armed force, the U.S. Navy is moving ahead with Trident missile acquisitions.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $19.8 million contract, with a potential value of $47.8 million, to develop the replacement inertial navigation system deployed on most Navy combat and support ships.
The U.K.’s new fleet of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft will be delivered in the same vanilla configuration as those for the U.S. Navy, ministers have confirmed.
France’s defense ministry will begin work on three new major space-system developments in the coming year, including an international collaboration with Germany in the area of remote sensing and an operational follow-on to the Elisa signals-intelligence demo.
The DOD increased the size of its acquisition workforce from about 126,000 in September 2008 to about 153,000 in March 2015, the GAO says, while questioning whether the new personnel collectively possess all the skills the department needs.
The International Space Station resumed six-person operations Dec. 15 following the successful launch and docking of Russia’s Soyuz TMA-19M crew transport.
The U.S. aerospace manufacturing industry bounced back from an early year slowdown in orders and monthly backlogs to get into position again to break production records this year, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) reported Dec. 15.
India is considering putting in place an intensive security framework for regulating UAVs to check their misuse by enemies, a top government official says.
Thales Alenia Space has signed a €402 million ($440 million) contract with the European Space Agency to build the Sentinel-1C and 1D radar imaging satellites.
Outside experts advising NASA on safety will recommend that the agency reconsider a decision to drop an integrated flight test of the Orion crew capsule’s launch abort system.
This year shaped up as a momentous one for planetary science, especially for discovery in the outer Solar System, and NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno mission promises to help make 2016 memorable as well.
Northrop hints that if its plan prevails final assembly will occupy the same Building 401 hangar at Palmdale’s Plant 42 site used for the construction of the B-2 stealth bomber in the 1980s and 1990s.
A detailed study of more than 900 unmanned-aircraft sightings reported to the FAA by pilots and air traffic controllers has concluded that 90 involved encounters with commercial aircraft close enough to meet the agency’s definition of a near midair collision.
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with O3b Networks to produce eight Ka-band communications satellites that will expand the fleet operator’s existing constellation of 12 Thales-built spacecraft by early 2018.
