Defense

By Brian Everstine
As U.S. satellites face increasing threats, Washington wants more data-sharing agreements from friendly nations to keep an eye on in-orbit movements.
Space

Alex Krutz
Five initiatives that small and medium-size enterprises can take to improve their cash conversion cycle.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
The move would secure Lockheed’s new-space supplier while putting an end to a dramatic couple of years for the space upstart.
Supply Chain

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By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military in the coming days will start a campaign of air dropping aid to Palestinians in Gaza, President Joe Biden announced March 1.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The public-private fellowship partnership placed officers, enlisted personnel and DOD civilians into startups, accelerators and venture capital firms.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
The American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation has signed a lease agreement with NASA’s JSC to become a second tenant of the center’s Exploration Park.
Space

Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) has named defence minister Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud as the chairman of the kingdom’s defence industry business.
Defense

By William Garvey
With pandemic delays, production halts and divestitures over, the Schweizer 300C/CBi will “start growing.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The country’s ministers, engineers and industry leaders have waited almost 14 years for the 13-min. first flight of the prototype Kaan on Feb. 21.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
An airline operator pre-working group will guide plans for the commercial blended wing body as subscale flight tests pave way for a multirole demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Scrappy Houston startup Intuitive Machines puts the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
GE’s breakup has been years in the making after the erstwhile conglomerate appeared to expand into too many disparate sectors and built up too much debt.
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced Feb. 29 that its XA-67A Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) flew for the first time the day before.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
A long-standing provision in the U.S. code to block investments in retiring weapon systems may negatively impact the ground leg of the nation’s nuclear triad.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Ventures participated in a $15 million Series A funding round for Elve Inc., a startup developing millimeter wave amplifiers.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return mission faces significant obstacles, an IG report says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Launched in September 2016 as Osiris-Rex, the mission dropped off samples from the asteroid Bennu during a flyby of Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Roscosmos’ Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat booster orbited a batch of Russian satellites and an Iranian spacecraft on Feb. 29.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Expected poor weather downrange, a concern in case of a launch abort, has delayed SpaceX's Crew-8 launch.
Space

By Kevin Michaels
Every dollar of aircraft production underpins at least another dollar of supplier activity in all tiers.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin’s team has passed another milestone in a competitive design process with Northrop Grumman for the MDA's Next Generation Interceptor program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Kim Minseok
Korea Aerospace Industries will be investing KRW 8 trillion ($5.9 billion) by 2040 in its High-Speed eXperimental Utility Helicopter project.
Aircraft & Propulsion