Defense

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sage Geosystems a $1.9 million contract to demonstrate geothermal powerplant technology that could power the service’s airfields.

The Mineral Security Partnership will provide targeted financial and diplomatic support for strategic projects along the value chain, the U.S. State Department said.

The UK’s military space efforts are not matching the change in the threat and more may need to happen, a Royal Air Force official says.

The German Space Command is exploring the possibility of launching an active in-orbit space defense project not unlike what France is pursuing.

Responses to the RFI are expected to feature an eclectic mix of solutions to the problem.

The UK Defense Ministry wants to experiment with deployable Enhanced Long-Range Navigation (eLoran) signals.

UK Defense Secretary John Healey has reiterated the new Labour government’s commitment to increasing defense spending to the equivalent of 2.5% of GDP.

StandardAero announced the launch of its initial public offering (IPO) process on Sept. 23, seeking to raise $1.1 billion at a valuation of up to $7.5 billion.

The Japanese Defense Ministry (MOD) has released details of its fiscal 2025 budget request, which called for a further 9.4% increase to military spending—part of Tokyo’s wider Defense Build-Up Program (DBP).

The Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve is a peacetime effort to develop capacity that the U.S. military can tap during times of conflict or crisis.

AAR has 5-year, $1.2b US Navy (follow-on) contract to provide P-8A Poseidon depot airframe maintenance and depot field team support, including scheduled/unscheduled MRO and AOG, for the US Navy, Australia, and FMS customers.

Steve Parker to interim Head of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, replacing Ted Colbert, who has left company.

BOEING completed first flight of first E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft for RAF; aircraft, currently unpainted, is one of three 737NGs on British soil undergoing modification by STS AVIATION SERVICES in Birmingham.

With the global arms market peaking and demand from the Israel Defense Forces expected to surge, state-owned IAI lost 13% of its workforce in a single stroke.

The U.S. and India will deepen defense industrial cooperation, the two countries’ leaders said on Sept. 21.

The flights were meant to show the aircraft could be used for logistics missions in austere environments.

The Italian Navy is studying the long-term concept of employing uncrewed aerial systems as a possible airborne early warning (AEW) platform for its aircraft carriers.

The attack included an unspecified number of 70-km (43-mi.)-range Fadi 1 rockets and 100-km-range Fadi 2 rockets fired into Northern Israel.

Aircraft WT001 got airborne from Birmingham Airport, England, shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 20.

Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s new CEO, announced the move in a statement to employees just before the close of business on Sept. 20.

The fifth T-7A will be delivered from Boeing in St. Louis to Edwards AFB, California, in mid-October.

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry says the unit was established Feb. 1, but its existence was not revealed until Sept. 18.

Iraq is purchasing South Korea's KM-SAM II medium-range, ground-based air defense system, becoming the third Middle Eastern nation to acquire it.

Paris has revealed further details of France and Italy's plans to acquire a new version of the SAMP/T as it rushes upgrade air and missile defense capabilities.

The USAF secretary is targeting an F-22 replacement's per-unit cost near that of an F-35 or F-15EX .