Defense

Vertex Aerospace, a legacy L3 Technologies unit providing logistics, MRO and supply chain management, has bought up a number of business lines from Raytheon Technologies as it moves into the latter stages of post-merger divestitures.

A contract award puts the Lockheed Martin F-35A on track to reduce cost per flight hour (CPFH) to $30,000 by 2023, still $5,000 short of the U.S. Air

As the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nears the end of his term, he sees several areas for improvement at the Pentagon.

The Missile Defense Agency and Boeing successfully launched a Ground Based Interceptor, to evaluate a new selectable-boost vehicle.

NASA is gradually acknowledging that efforts to return human explorers to the surface of the Moon in 2024 through the Artemis initiative are fading.

The UK Royal Air Force is to spend £400 million ($553 million) on upgrades for its Boeing C-17 Globemaster and CH-47 Chinook fleets.

General Atomics has completed a flight of one of its MQ-9 medium-altitude, long endurance uncrewed air systems over Canada’s High North.

ROLLS-ROYCE agreed to sell its 23.1% stake in AIRTANKER HOLDINGS (air-to-air refueling with 14 A330-200s) to Equitix Investment Management for cash

Northrop’s engineers are actively discussing a new version of the unmanned RQ-4 with the Army that would require substantial modifications to the baseline aircraft.

Virgin Galactic ordered additional inspections after an unidentified vendor contacted the company about a potential problem with its components.

D-Orbit UK is to lead development of a spacecraft “deorbit kit” for the European Space Agency.

North Korea has claimed to have successfully fired a new locally developed cruise missile capable of reaching targets across the Korean peninsula and into Japan.

Equitix Investment Management is paying £189 million ($261 million) for the engine-maker’s 23.1% holding in Airtanker Holdings Ltd.

The tracking service will use laser ranging to monitor objects in low Earth orbit, offering satellite operators the ability to identify collision threats and maneuver accordingly.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the intention to order the six additional aircraft in a speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair on Sept.11.

A company known for bombers has set its sights on future air dominance technology, displaying new UAS concepts that hint at larger goals.

Originally planned for Aug. 24, the spacewalk was delayed when NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei experienced a pinched nerve in his neck and had to be replaced for the excursion.

Woolpert, a century-old mapping and surveying specialist, has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based company that specializes in providing photogrammetric mapping, orthography, lidar and GIS data to defense and intelligence communities.

A group of California lawmakers is pressing the Department of the Air Force to base the U.S. Space Force’s new training command in their home state, while warning that political interests should not influence future basing decisions and pointing to ongoing criticism of U.S. Space Command’s move to Alabama.

The U.S. Air Force is turning the charred remains of a Lockheed Martin F-35A that crashed last year into tools to help maintainers train on the jet.

U.S. Navy F-35Cs and CMV-22Bs are in the South China Sea for the first time as the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and the embarked Carrier Air Wing 2 are operating in the area.

A group of four amateur astronauts poised to become the first privately funded orbital spaceflight crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch at 8 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15.

Airbus Helicopters has selected its site in Broughton, North Wales, as a potential final assembly line for the H175M helicopter being proposed for the UK’s New Medium Helicopter requirement.

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a multifunctional datalink featuring a compact, hexagonal array and a stealthy waveform, with the goal of offering a new retrofit option for existing combat aircraft and a new networking tool for future combat aircraft.

Confirming unofficial reports, Indonesia has ordered Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter.