The first of Orbital ATK’s enhanced automated Cygnus resupply capsules departed the International Space Station laden with trash early Feb. 19 for a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after being docked to the orbiting lab’s U.S. segment for nearly 2 1/2 months.
The Defense Department is not conducting oversight to ensure that defense agencies are reporting counterfeit parts as required, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report says.
Responding to a Wall Street analyst’s question regarding a recent Pentagon comment about the construction of the next-generation aircraft carrier thus far being “undisciplined,” Huntington Ingalls Industries CEO Michael Petters says the follow-on ship work will be better.
The radar for the GlobalEye is already running, in rooftop tests at Saab’s Gothenburg site, and the first Global 6000 platform for the UAE is due to arrive in Linkoping soon for modifications.
Saab is proposing a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that it regards as a competitor to Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, at perhaps two-thirds the price.
Experts back idea of carrier-based refueling UAV; McCain presses Obama to stand up to China; U.S. Air Force still working cost growth on GPS ground segment; airlines can apply for flights to Cuba.
Deliveries of the Eurofighter Typhoon to Saudi Arabia and trading of equipment for the fighter to European customers helped boost revenues for BAE Systems last year.
Amid increased U.S. ship and aircraft patrols in the South China Sea, and with Taiwan flexing more muscle in the region, China has deployed surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, adding even greater risk to operations there.
The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division is helping create a virtual cyber testbed ship called USS Secure, designed to make cybersafe warships for Naval Sea System Command.
After evaluating clean-sheet designs for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer requirement, Lockheed Martin decides to stick with Korea Aerospace Industries’ T-50.
Despite China's apparent ambition to control just about all of the South China Sea, only two of the countries adjoining that body of water are clearly reacting with armament efforts—Vietnam strongly and the Philippines much less so.
Boeing is urging customers considering ordering the P-8 Poseidon maritime aircraft to move before U.S. Navy contracts for the type dry up this decade, pushing production prices higher.
The world’s most capable thermal vacuum chamber is on track to receive the optical/instrument components of the James Webb Space Telescope for a critical round of early 2017 prelaunch testing.
