Defense

A 95-page NASA 2023 Spinoff publication was released Jan. 31.

Switzerland has completed a series of avionics upgrades for its McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets.

The investment will support maintenance of the General Electric F414 engines that equip Sweden’s new Gripen E fighters and older F404 engines on its Gripen C/D.

Bell Textron is developing military modification kits for its commercial helicopters, targeting nations with urgent security needs but limited defense budgets.

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were awarded for their 2020 mission under a pioneering NASA flight services contract with SpaceX.

The life-cycle cost for the jet-powered aircraft jumped 68% from 2008 to 2021.

A strong NASA budget request is essential to growing a generation of leaders who can compete globally in technological innovation.

The U.S. Air Force wants an innovative refueling system to better operate in contested environments with a goal of operations beginning in 2040.

A program to develop, field and sustain 300 ballistic missiles with maneuverable reentry vehicles over a 20-year period would cost $13.4 million, CBO says.

France and Italy are jointly purchasing nearly 700 Aster surface-to-air missiles.

The ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield completed an internal critical design review, the company announced on Jan. 30.

Retired NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

NATO has added three more European flight training schools to its Flight Training Europe project.

Defense against both North Korean and potentially Chinese ballistic missiles are among Seoul and Tokyo’s top defense priorities.

South Korea is developing its own satellite-based geo-positioning network covering the Korean Peninsula for use in the event of a GPS-denied environment.

U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to dismiss the possibility of directly providing Lockheed Martin F-16s to Ukraine.

The KC-46’s developmental history is a story of U.S. Air Force work-arounds.

The program should be considered the “most successful hypersonic air breathing flight test program in U.S. history,” DARPA says.

As it currently stands today, all future F-15EXs delivered to the Air Force will look noticeably different than the first two prototypes.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has completed the caching of 10 samples of rock cores gathered from its Jezero Crater landing site.

The flights over water pave the way for the first landings of the VSR700 onto a French Navy frigate, currently planned for the end of Q1 2023.

A decade since first flight in January, 2013, China's AVIC is looking at more missions for the Xian Y-20 strategic airlifter.

ESA member states scramble to protect independent access to space.

Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in Machina Labs, a robotic sheet metal forming startup.

Although any losses remain theoretical, some market analysts no longer expect Northrop to make any profit on early B-21 production lots.