Defense and Space

France is expanding its skills in the field of loitering munitions with three studies underway to evaluate industry proposals.

UK lawmakers question the Defense Ministry's ability to rapidly deliver lethal aid to the armed forces.

Matthew Doude, Leidos' program manager for LTV Space Systems, outlines the features of the prototype it may use to bid for NASA's Artemis program.

With five Super Heavy boosters and eight Starships in production, SpaceX ramps up flight test program.

BAE Systems is advancing development of a collective training system that could allow the numerous educational devices used by militaries to be fused.

Innovations from the aerospace industry are helping to monitor, manage and mitigate climate change.

The point of the mission is to verify the oceans’ existence, investigate their properties and assess if there are environments where life may exist.

Rain Industries has demoed the capability for automated rapid initial wildfire attack by remotely commanding a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter via satellite.

NASA has awarded Space & Technology Solutions a potential $719 million contract for the support of work on the agency’s Joint Polar Satellite System.

Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.

NASA has selected Aerospace Corp. to run the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities.

GE AEROSPACE has Lockheed Martin contract to provide maintenance/repair of F-35 avionics/electrical power systems.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman says he is starting to define how its personnel will turn satellite data into actionable targeting information.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has an unlikely message to Congress: Give up some of your authority.

GE Aerospace becomes the latest F-35 supplier to be converted by Lockheed Martin to a multi-year performance based logistics deal.

Lockheed looked across the massive company's divisions to understand the needs of platforms that would use TacSat-2.

NASA administrator acknowledges the cost and schedule issues across some of its most challenging human deep-space exploration and space-science objectives.

An allegedly leaked U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency report suggests China has almost or already established its first supersonic UAS unit.

Boeing is pairing its Wideband Global Satellite with Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype so troops remain connected in a contested environment, says Tim Fay.

Russian cosmonauts conducted a nearly 8-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station in which they moved an almost 1,100-lb. radiator.

DMEA’s staff has recently been assigned a new task in response to urgent calls by Ukraine to replenish a rapidly depleting arsenal of air defense systems.

Russia plans to send the Venera-D exploration mission to Venus without NASA participation, albeit with less ambitious scientific goals.

The NRO and Space Force will launch the SilentBarker satellite later this year.

The companies, services and people dependent on today’s promising new generation of aircraft would do well to heed the lessons of the past.

Brazil’s largest defense company studies options for partnering on next-generation fighters and developing light utility transports.