Defense

As the first RQ-21As deploy to Afghanistan, the U.S. Marine Corps is eyeing new payload and fuselage options

The results of the 2014 Top-Performing Companies (TPC) study are heartening but troubling: Industry profits soared nearly 10% but the improvements are concentrated among the largest organizations.

Europe is expediting its plan to boost capability of its aerial refueling tanker

Markets meet for high-end bizjets, combat aircraft

Formal rollout of Sikorsky’s CH-53K brings new visibility to the U.S. Marine Corps’ closely held heavy-lift replacement program

Steven Pifer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former ambassador to Ukraine. Prior to that, he helped negotiate the Budapest Memorandum.

Musk roils launch industry with EELV suit and reports of reusable-launcher success

Troubling trends point to potential problems for industry players who otherwise appear to be firing on all cylinders

Boeing's Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) demonstrator recently completed its first flight to verify airworthiness, an important milestone toward providing a low-risk and cost-effective maritime surveillance solution designed for search and rescue, anti-piracy patrols and coastal and border security.

Cobham has been awarded a 30 month contract by BAE Systems to provide air support to operational readiness training for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).

Multinational defense programs in the West have become 'a horror' for industry, Enders said

Senior defence personnel from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the GCC Secretariat, as well as from international partners such as the United States, France, Sweden, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, and NATO are set to make the 4th edition of Middle East Missile and Air Defense Symposium (MEMAD 2014) a major success

JAXA may get ocean-surveillance job with its new space-law assignments

Higher-than-expected labor rates and overhead contributed to an F-35 price increase last year

Pentagon and primes alike are ratcheting up the squeeze on supply chains

Sub-assemblies come together as Embraer closes on initial airlifter production contract

U.S. Army aviation revamp retains FVL and prompts change in training

Fake secrecy clouds Growler debate

Su-35S features engine and radar improvements

The first aircraft to be fully assembled and rolled out from a Moroccan factory could happen within the next 18 months.

Alenia Aermacchi, and ATK announced today that the demonstrator of a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its first flight from the company's Turin test flight centre.

Pentagon budget squeeze may force primes to support new R&D funding

Textron is hoping to send its Scorpion prototype light attack, reconnaissance aircraft to an international coming-out at the U.K.’s Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Air Show in July. RIAT is set for July 11-13. Farnborough is the following week.

TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Intelligence Community has “reached a consensus” on a recommendation to lift a restriction that forbids U.S. commercial satellite imagery manufacturers from releasing imagery with resolution of less than 0.5 meters. The proposal “bodes well for industry,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told an audience at the 10th annual Geoint conference here. Clapper says the intelligence community has forwarded the recommendations to an interagency group for review.

Denmark has fired the starting pistol in its contest for a new fighter aircraft, sending out requests for information to four manufacturers.