Defense

By Steve Trimble
Two different types of air-launched hypersonic missiles appear to be heading in opposite directions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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

By Brian Everstine
$194 billion budget proposes deep divestments to free up funding for research and development.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Hadrian Automation has raised $90 million in Series A and A-Prime rounds to build a second highly automated machine shop.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Despite global tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NASA and Roscosmos continue to weigh a seat exchange agreement that would ensure every launch to the International Space Station by either agency has at least one astronaut and one cosmonaut on board.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
As it awaits its seventh mission via a Falcon 9 launch imminently, Ion Satellite Carrier provider D-Orbit–which is going public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)–expects to have 20 space tugs operational by 2023, a top executive says.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus has been cleared to operationally refuel stealth aircraft, with the tanker now able to top up F-22s and F-35As.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Michael Bruno
Triumph Group, which will soon cap a yearslong consolidation and exit of most of its aerostructures work, on March 31 announced it will launch a new corporate identity and it has reshuffled its leadership ranks, including departures.
Supply Chain

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin conducted its fourth crewed flight on March 31, sending five paying passengers and employee Gary Lai—the lead architect for the New Shepard transportation system—into suborbital space.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) on March 31 announced it has picked David Norquist, the former deputy defense secretary, to be its next president and CEO.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force says its next-generation combat search-and-rescue helicopter has begun initial operational test and evaluation, just days after the service announced it intends to reduce the overall fleet of the aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The third A-29C was delivered in March to the 6th Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Florida, for the Combat Aviation Advisor mission.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Tony Osborne
British intelligence officials say they have seen evidence of low morale among Russian forces in Ukraine, with personnel sabotaging their own equipment and accidentally shooting down Russian aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Highly engineered aerospace products provider Crane said March 30 that it will spin off its payment and merchandising technologies businesses into a separate, publicly traded corporation, in part to better focus on core aerospace and electronics end markets
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A long-term “Aviation Procurement Plan” released by the Navy on March 28 shows no funding for EC-130s through fiscal 2027.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
The Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant X team has made the longest flight yet with its SB-1 technology demonstrator, flying the coaxial-rotor compound helicopter from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, for display at the Army Aviation Association of America (Quad-A) show on April 3-5.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Army and Navy officials plan to buy around 31 prototypes of an upgraded version of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body and incorporate a data link during the next two to three years, a new solicitation document says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

BOEING has NATO contract to lead industry team in conducting E-3 AWACS replacement study; retirements are planned in 2035.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Five bidders have been downselected as potential buyers for troubled Italian aerospace firm Piaggio Aerospace.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
The South Korean Ministry of National Defense said tests verified the large solid-fuel engine, fairing separation, stage separation and upper-stage attitude control technology.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s Roketsan has revealed the development of an indigenous cruise missile for use against land and sea targets.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
PAL Aerospace and Thales have signed a strategic agreement to co-develop new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) mission systems, hoping to entice the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) for its MPA program.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
Canada narrows fighter selection to F-35, begins negotiations for purchase of 88 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau, Graham Warwick
Fiscal 2023 plans set another record for science as the agency places a premium on climate change research.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
U.S. prime defense technology provider L3Harris Technologies and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Shield Capital announced a partnership March 29 to invest in emerging defense and commercial technology startups.
Supply Chain