Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is the rare example of an acquisition style that mirrors the operating concept of the technology being developed.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES, CA completed all permanent financing for pending acquisition of FLIR SYSTEMS, OR (sensors) in cash/stock transaction valued at
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
The UK will invest another £2 billion ($2.77 billion) in the development of its Tempest Future Combat Air System and will purchase more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters beyond the 48 currently planned, a review of the country’s defense posture has determined.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s nearly two-decade-long push to establish game-changing commercial partnerships in low Earth orbit operations to expand human exploration and scientific research and grow the economy is broadening its scope to include a new role for private sector communications and navigation assets and services.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Glynn Lunney, a member of the Space Task Group that launched NASA’s human spaceflight operations and the flight director remembered for leading the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 84.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Eurosam consortium of MBDA and Thales has been contracted to develop a new version of the SAMP/T ground-based air defense system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus and Dassault try to reconcile views in thorny FCAS negotiations as a political deadline nears.
Aircraft & Propulsion

While the performance of defense markets has remained robust throughout COVID-19 the economic and fiscal impact of the pandemic mean that there are
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The anti-surface Joint Strike Missile (JSM) manufactured by Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace performed a series of successful test drops from a U.S. Air Force F-35A at Edwards Air Force Base, California in February.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The first production EA-18G delivered in 2007 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, became the first aircraft inducted into the Operational, Safety and Improvement Program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
International Space Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Kate Rubins boarded their Russian Soyuz MS-17 on March 19 and undocked from the orbital outpost, reparking 34 min. later at a different module to clear the preferred port for the arrival of the next crew.
Space

By Irene Klotz
President Joe Biden on March 19 nominated former three-term Sen. Bill Nelson, (D-Fla.), to serve as the 14th administrator of NASA, succeeding fellow former U.S. legislator Jim Bridenstine, whose nomination Nelson opposed.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has signed a new cooperation deal with Romania’s Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) which could see the Romanian company customize, service and support H145M twin-engine light multirole helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maksim Pyadushkin
The first fully commercial space launch of the Russian Soyuz 2.1a vehicle in 2021, planned for March 20, is expected to orbit 38 various satellites from 18 countries into three different Sun-synchronous orbits.
Commercial Space

The U.S. Navy on March 19 published a sources sought notice to identify potential contractors for integrating hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missiles on Zumwalt-class destroyers.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Belgium’s F-16 fleet has returned to operations after being grounded over engine problems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Sergei Chemezov, Rostec CEO, will personally lead the consolidation process after appointing himself to lead the UAC Board of Directors, Rostec announced on March 18.
Aircraft & Propulsion

TRIUMPH SYSTEMS & SUPPORT has Boeing contract to maintain critical ground support equipment for KC-46 program.
Defense

Senegal’s first CN235 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) has been ceremonially rolled out.
Defense

By Alan Peaford
Ivor Ichikowitz, the founder and executive chairman of Africa’s largest private defence manufacturer talks to Alan Peaford in this special TATV Insight programme.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz
Listen in as Nanoracks CEO Jeff Manber predicts that by the end of the year, private space companies will have more discretionary money to spend than the U.S. federal government.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is diversifying the U.S. early missile warning portfolio with a mix of satellite types and sizes in different orbits to prevent unwanted missile attacks.
Program Management

By Irene Klotz
Suborbital flights, tourist missions are not the allure for this adventure pilot.
Commercial Space

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

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy may expand the mission set of the MQ-25 carrier-based tanker to include electronic attack and strike, according to a service official.
Budget, Policy & Operations