Defense

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Commerce Department is ramping up efforts to promote and help U.S. space businesses land work from foreign customers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Commerce Department is ramping up efforts to promote and help U.S. space businesses land work from foreign customers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Major European consulting firm AlixPartners has struck a strategic deal with Cypress International, a Washington, D.C.-based boutique adviser, as AlixPartners looks to increase U.S. federal and military-related council.
Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
Lift Aircraft has been awarded a Phase 3 contract by the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to continue experimentation and flight tests of its single-seat HEXA electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force has ordered long-lead parts to start the production phase of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider program. The $108 million contract
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
After a recent successful demonstration of its Protected Tactical Enterprise Services (PTES) ground system, Boeing is continuing to develop a Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P), leveraging its heritage on the Wideband Global Satcom program and commercial satellite technologies.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Space Command signed two new agreements with partner nations within two days this week as the Pentagon plans to further increase its space information sharing.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force is tracking the development of on-orbit maneuvering and refueling in the commercial industry to inform how the technology could shape its plans for future national security launches.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
Major consultancy Accenture on April 6 said it made an unspecified investment in Titan Space Technologies, which is proffering software in support of in-orbit experiments and demonstrations, starting with adaptive immune response, carbon capture and biomedical applications.
Space Symposium

By Tony Osborne
Airbus says it will draw on a multidisciplined set of technologies in its proposal for NATO’s Alliance Future Surveillance and Control system, which will replace the Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platform in the mid-2030s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
SpinLaunch, which conducted its first test flight from its Suborbital Accelerator at Spaceport America last October, has signed a Space Act agreement with NASA to demonstrate its lofting system this year.
Space Symposium

U.S. Army officials plan to start designing a replacement for the Raytheon Stinger surface-to-air missile next year and begin building an inventory of 10,000 missiles in fiscal 2027.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
NATO foreign ministers have approved the launch of the alliance’s DIANA network for advanced technology development.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has struck an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries to convert passenger aircraft into tankers under the Israeli company’s multi-mission tanker transport (MMTT) program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Spain’s National Institute for Aerospace Technology has placed an order with Airbus to purchase a C295 turboprop airlifter to use as an aerial research platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab has delivered the first pair of serial production Gripen E fighters into Brazil following their passage across the Atlantic by ship.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
After years of wrangling and political discussion, Germany’s parliament has moved ahead with the procurement of weapons to arm its leased fleet of Heron TP uncrewed air systems (UAS).
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
The Japan Coast Guard's MQ-9B SeaGuardian will operate from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Hachinohe Air Base in the northeast of Japan’s main island Honshu.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Buoyed by sales at HAI Heli-Expo, Leonardo Helicopters CEO Gian Piero Cutillo says the commercial helicopter market has turned a corner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Startup space companies raised $15.4 billion in total financing in 2021, double the amount raised in 2020.
Space Symposium

By Tony Osborne
NATO has selected Denmark, Estonia and the UK to host facilities for advanced technology development.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator is being transported back to Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, from its Fort Worth plant after completing structural tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Space Force is preparing to decommission the system that was tracking space activity and transition to a new system by year’s end on an “aggressive schedule,” service and industry officials say.
Space Symposium