Defense

American aerospace and defense companies are following growth overseas and trying to become just as “local” there as they are stateside.

Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall talks with Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler about challenges keeping existing programs on track while looking to the future.

New Talos combat suit for U.S. special forces would provide ballistic protection as well as monitoring soldiers’ vital signs

The U.S. Navy is moving toward replacing its Ohio-class subs, but funding, production and technology issues still loom

NATO Growler tests Russian SAM capabilities during exercizes in Slovakia

Darpa-led team creates fastest-ever solid-state integrated amplifier

Senior Defense Editor Bill Sweetman talks with Alan Dershowitz, a booster for the Israeli cause, about morality and warfare in general and in that country in particular.

U.S. Navy developing unmanned surface vehicles to defeat growing threat from swarming small boats

U.S. Army, Georgia Tech develop improved testing of software upgrades for Common Missile Warning System

New ability to measure to extremely minute degree the dynamic deflection and failure of ballistic fibers as they deform under high-speed impact has U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists closing in on developing innovative body armor for soldiers that outperforms current versions.

Australia, other nations, mulling tradeoffs of various submarine battery and propulsion alternatives

The future of A&D is looking good judging by the accomplishments and drive of the young innovators—the lifeblood of the next generation—in this Aviation Week-Raytheon feature.

B.S. candidate in Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 2016

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2009; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2015, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Use of innovative contracting techniques encourages competition for U.S. Navy shipbuilding, reducing acquisition costs

Domestic budget pressures are leading Israel to proceed with privatizing government-owned defense companies, despite security concerns

Some industry pundits say Pentagon changes will try to force more buy-in from industry on research and development and more competition between companies, among other elements, as the government tries to stretch scarcer dollars.

Selling military airplanes is not just about hardware. It is the start of a decades-long relationship.

Customer deferrals, trade sanctions and a deteriorating economic outlook have forced Rolls to accelerate a planned restructuring, which will mainly affect its U.K. civil aero-engine workforce, even though many of the issues are afflicting the company’s Land & Sea division, which produces nuclear energy and power systems.

While eyes are on China’s stealth aircraft, much more work is being carried out on missiles and radars. Will that pattern be sustained?

A pair of Lockheed Martin F-35Cs have successfully completed their first series of arrested landings and catapult takeoffs from the carrier USS Nimitz this month, marking the start of the developmental test program for the U.S. Navy’s first stealthy piloted aircraft.

Aviation Week editors discuss the F-35C and its ongoing carrier trials.

A Chinese airlifter as big as the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules will go into service in the 2020s if the factory behind the project, Shaanxi Aircraft, is given a go-ahead, as expected.

Raytheon is upgrading its Tomahawk missile to ready it to compete for the pending U.S. Navy’s Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare requirement.

New launch and recovery system is designed to enable a beyond-line-of-sight, multi-intelligence unmanned aircraft, with 10-12-hr. time on station at 500 nm, to be independent of runways and flight decks.