Defense

The U.S. Army is taking the next year to craft a transformation strategy that builds off a modernization plan the service issued in 2016, according to

It was the seventh flight of the booster and capsule, and the program’s 13th launch since the first New Shepard system debuted in April 2015.

The U.S. Navy’s top officer is not convinced the sea service’s sixth-generation fighter needs to be a manned aircraft.

The live-fly demonstrations for the Three-Dimensional Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) keeps the program on track for a follow-on integration and production contract early next year.

Raytheon’s GBU-53/B, also known as StormBreaker, is now operational on the Boeing F-15E fleet, the U.S. Air Force announced Oct. 13. The 250 lb.-class

The SLS’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines will ignite for a full-duration, 8-min. firing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ordered two more (now 27) Beechcraft King Air 350CERs for AMO operations.

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos.

Development of compact, efficient rotary internal-combustion engines able to run on jet fuel has been boosted by U.S. Army contracts to advance the technology for unmanned-aircraft propulsion and rotorcraft auxiliary-power applications.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy’s remarks during a keynote speech at the Association of the U.S. Army’s virtual annual meeting appear to confirm the previously unannounced accuracy results from the Flight Experiment (FE)-2 test.

Hypersonic Production Accelerator Facility would dramatically cut costs and schedule for scramjet propulsion, study says.

What do a startup air mobility company, a major aerospace and defense OEM, a space launch business and a shipbuilder have in common? They must take

In the Lunar Gateway's current form, “Russia is likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale,” the head of Russia's space agency says.

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node is expected to play a key role in the Army's future concept of operations.

Marshall is best known for its work supporting the UK Royal Air Force’s fleet of C-130 Hercules airlifters.

HONEYWELL has 5-year contract to provide T55-GA-714A repair/overhaul at Phoenix for US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

AIRBUS was selected by the Commonwealth of Australia (CoA) to develop a Communications and Mission System modernization upgrade for the Royal

The company is investigating an unexpected pressure rise in a Merlin 1D engine turbomachinery gas generator.

France has contracted the conversion of 10 NH90 helicopters with new sensors for special operations missions.

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This week sees both the International Astronautical Congress (www.iafastro.org) and the Association of the U.S. Army (www.ausa.org) host virtual

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in two versions, intended to fit into vessels with different launch tubes.

The new liquid-propellant weapon appeared to be an enlargement of North Korea’s previous ICBM, Hwasong 15, which implicitly has insufficient payload-range capability for all of North Korea’s purposes.

Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, tells Aviation Week’s Thierry Dubois about the agency’s progress on reusable launchers and other programs in conjunction with International Astronautical Congress 2020.