Defense

A strong NASA budget request is essential to growing a generation of leaders who can compete globally in technological innovation.

The U.S. Air Force wants an innovative refueling system to better operate in contested environments with a goal of operations beginning in 2040.

A program to develop, field and sustain 300 ballistic missiles with maneuverable reentry vehicles over a 20-year period would cost $13.4 million, CBO says.

France and Italy are jointly purchasing nearly 700 Aster surface-to-air missiles.

The ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield completed an internal critical design review, the company announced on Jan. 30.

Retired NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

NATO has added three more European flight training schools to its Flight Training Europe project.

Defense against both North Korean and potentially Chinese ballistic missiles are among Seoul and Tokyo’s top defense priorities.

South Korea is developing its own satellite-based geo-positioning network covering the Korean Peninsula for use in the event of a GPS-denied environment.

U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to dismiss the possibility of directly providing Lockheed Martin F-16s to Ukraine.

The KC-46’s developmental history is a story of U.S. Air Force work-arounds.

The program should be considered the “most successful hypersonic air breathing flight test program in U.S. history,” DARPA says.

As it currently stands today, all future F-15EXs delivered to the Air Force will look noticeably different than the first two prototypes.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has completed the caching of 10 samples of rock cores gathered from its Jezero Crater landing site.

The flights over water pave the way for the first landings of the VSR700 onto a French Navy frigate, currently planned for the end of Q1 2023.

A decade since first flight in January, 2013, China's AVIC is looking at more missions for the Xian Y-20 strategic airlifter.

ESA member states scramble to protect independent access to space.

Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount in Machina Labs, a robotic sheet metal forming startup.

Although any losses remain theoretical, some market analysts no longer expect Northrop to make any profit on early B-21 production lots.

The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command wants a plan within two months to launch 100 UAVs from a single aging KC-135 Stratotanker.

France’s defense materiel agency has cleared a new 1,000-kg (2,204-lb.) version of the Safran AASM munition for use on Dassault Rafale fighters.

Momentum for the handover of fighters to supplement Ukraine’s remaining air defense fleet of Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-27s and RAC MiG-29s is gradually gaining.

The governments of Saudi Arabia and Chad have signed an (MOU) for defence cooperation to develop bilateral relations that promotes international peace and stability.

A Tunisian helicopter unit has been operating for a year in the Central African Republic under the banner of the United Nations multidimensional integrated stabilization mission in the CAR (MINUSCA).

Sikorsky is looking ahead to applying its X2 coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter technology to commercial aircraft.