Defense

LOCKHEED MARTIN had $5.7b net income on $66b sales in 2022 vs $6.3b on $67b in 2021and ended year with $150b backlog.

It is time to complete space programs that have been long-standing thorns in the side of the U.S. military, a U.S. Air Force official says.

Despite technical glitches, Ariane 6’s final test campaign is now well underway.

Col. Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Forces Command, said the type of aircraft likely to be provided has been determined.

Canada’s parliamentary auditing agency has launched an independent review of the government’s decision to acquire 88 F-35As.

Raytheon Technologies will merge its two defense divisions under the Raytheon brand.

MightyFly has unveiled its second-generation uncrewed cargo aircraft, the Cento.

The technology is intended to reduce the transit time for human expeditions and science missions to Mars and other deep space destinations.

The survey proposes to save the Navy billions of dollars that would be otherwise spent on qualifying a trainer jet to land aboard an aircraft carrier.

The delayed milestone keeps the program on track for a rescheduled first delivery of the upgraded, single-engine fighter to the Royal Bahrain Air Force.

The delivery comes 44 years after the twin-engine platform was first fielded by the Army and 49 years since the first flight in October 1974.

The 550th Helicopter Squadron will be activated in February at Malmstrom AFB, with a five-year mission to support MH-139 training and testing.

Once returned to Earth in 2033, the samples will join those gathered by the Apollo astronauts at the Moon and those from other destinations.

The propulsion flowpath test announced on Jan. 24 by Blue Force Technologies helps to validate the digital model used to design the Fury fighter.

Daylighting mental health issues is critically important to aviation safety.

The OEM needs to “think globally and produce locally” and modernize its supply chain model in North America.

The solicitation comes four months after the DIU solicited for a modular payload that can be demonstrated at hypersonic speeds within 18 to 24 months.

The military satellite constellation was previously known as the “National Defense Space Architecture."

The spacecraft arrived at Russia’s Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at the end of December.

An archive court documents from a failed lawsuit against offer a rare glimpse into the world of executing offset agreements for international arms sales.

Launched on July 24, 1992, on a four-year primary mission, Geotail was extended multiple times.

The Lockheed Martin’s Block 70s will be Jordan’s first new-build F-16s.

The array failed to deploy fully following the launch of the Lucy spacecraft on the first-ever mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

The agreement comes as research and development intensifies in the U.S. to catch up with hypersonic weapons developments by both China and Russia.

President Emmanuel Macron outlined a range of big-ticket items France plans to buy as he looks to transform the country’s armed services.