Defense

France’s defense materiel agency DGA placed orders totaling €20.3 billion ($22 billion) during 2023, the highest level of spending in 15 years.

The AFWerx innovation unit is focused on cargo applications for advanced air mobility aircraft.

Boeing has told the U.S. Air Force that nonrecurring engineering costs on the E-7A Wedgetail would be double what the service expected.

The preliminary findings suggest a second member of Russia’s hypersonic arsenal has been employed against Ukraine, following strikes by the Khinzal missiles.

Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million to further develop and grow its satellite-to-device network.

Air Force Special Operations Command is reviewing the role of its CV-22 fleet amid a three-month-long grounding of the fleet following a fatal crash.

The supply chain feeding RTX is “broadly” stabilizing and improving, the company’s chief financial officer says.

The downselect will reduce the five bidders for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft to two or three, depending on funding.

NASA and SpaceX are retargeting the launch of the four-person Dragon Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from Feb. 22 to no earlier than Feb. 28.

The aircraft has been delivered to New Braunfels National Airport, Texas.

The Indonesian Defense Ministry has chosen to walk away from its contract to acquire 12 ex-Qatari Mirage 2000-5 citing costs.

Failing again to field the OH-58 Kiowa’s replacement, the U.S. Army will rely on uncrewed aircraft and space-based assets for the armed reconnaissance mission.

The U.S. Air Force will stand up a new command focused on creating requirements for future systems.

NATO is looking to adopt near-term, cheaper options to protect against one-way attack drones.

A future without a new attack reconnaissance aircraft won’t just cause changes for the U.S. Army’s conventional aviation forces.

Beta’s Alia electric aircraft has participated in a U.S. Air National Guard exercise.

Judges at the Court of Appeal in The Hague sided with anti-war campaign groups in a Feb. 12 ruling.

Former NASA shuttle astronauts Dr. Dave Hilmers and Marsha Ivins have been selected as 2024 inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

A Lockheed Air Express flown by Capt. Frank M. Hawks, an aeronautics advisor at The Texas Co., made the cover of our Feb. 16, 1929, edition for setting a new U.S. transcontinental speed record.

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space's new report shows private-sector interest in U.S. National Laboratory ISS assets continues to increase.

Riyadh announced a 3.9% rise for defense spending in fiscal 2024. Three factors likely dictate whether another sizable boost to spending materializes this year.

Pratt & Whitney’s proposed adaptive engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter has moved closer to the detailed design review stage.

DARPA grants under the umbrella of REMA have been awarded to Anduril, RTX, Leidos, Northrop Grumman and SoarTech.

Government-to-government discussions about a potential Saudi Typhoon order are ongoing.

SHOW BUSINESS journalists and photographers had an insightful time at the World Defense Show 2024. Read each day's news in English or Arabic.