Defense

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
Buying counter-UAS as a service is part of the U.S. Army’s plan for more directed energy to target large numbers of attacking drones.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick, Jen DiMascio, Steven Grundman
The differentiator in military programs is shifting from platforms to software. Listen in to hear how this change is transforming industry.
Check 6

By Tony Osborne
Poland has launched negotiations to order 22 Leonardo AW101 battlefield helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Despite developing Parkinson’s disease, one of Virgin Galactic’s first customers boarded the company’s VSS Unity spaceship for a suborbital ride.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is now the acquisition executive for the large-scale plan to defend Guam from air and missile threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to launch the two prototype satellites for its Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor system later this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The THAAD and PAC-3 MSE integration was a long, multiyear effort that was fielded and accepted earlier this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
QinetiQ is adapting the four-engine airliner to become an Airborne Technology Demonstrator to support radar and sensor integration work for future programs.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Baykar’s Akinci drone as well as its associated weapons and sensors will be produced in Saudi Arabia under a new deal estimated at roughly $3 billion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lunar Vertex (LVx) is a joint lander and rover payload combination that will land at Reiner Gamma on the lunar nearside.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two Russian cosmonauts installed three orbital debris shields to the exterior of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment Rassvet.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The digital transfer to the aircraft from the B-2’s Advanced Communications ground station automates a function that required crews to manually input the data.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.
Space

The mission date is to be announced at a later date, and the name of the astronaut awaits approval by NASA and the other ISS partners.
Commercial Space

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Warsaw expects delivery of all four Polish Navy Leonardo AW101s—purchased in a deal worth €380 million ($427 million)—by the end of this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sash Tusa
The rotary-wing industry model is fracturing, and a much smaller U.S. civil rotorcraft industry is likely as civil and military requirements diverge.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The linkup between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems is the latest in Hypersonix’s growth into the U.S. market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Current plans call for the first Romanian F-35s to be delivered by Lockheed Martin in 2030 to replace the country’s F-16 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
New Zealand's temporary flight ban on the NH90s was spurred by the devastating July 28 crash of its Australian counterpart.
Aircraft & Propulsion

During more than three decades in our Washington bureau, Bond wore many hats: reporter, editor, content innovator and mentor to young journalists.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Northrop bids dasvidaniya to rocket’s Russian engines.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).
Commercial Space