The failure of the legislation comes two days before a 30-day Congressional notification deadline ends on the late move by the Trump Administration to accelerate the sale of stealth fighters and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the UAE.
With a Cobham drogue pod installed on the left-wing, inboard station for the 2.5-hr. flight, Boeing analyzed the aerodynamics of the company-owned T1 test asset for the MQ-25.
UK venture capital outfit Octopus Ventures and investment firm BGF joined existing Orbex investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor S.A. in a new funding round for the launch company.
UAVs pioneer AeroVironment late Dec. 8 announced it has struck a deal to acquire Telerob Gesellschaft für Fernhantierungstechnik, a German provider of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for defense and security, for about $45.4 million (€37.5 million) in cash.
During his final meeting as chair of the National Space Council, Vice President Mike Pence named 18 astronauts to form the initial cadre supporting crewed flights to the Moon under the Artemis program.
After the SDA agreed to re-evaluate the bids in an effort to resolve the concerns by the contractors, the GAO dismissed Raytheon's and Airbus' initial protests on Nov. 30.
Airbus says it is preparing to ramp up for development of the EuroDrone medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air system after the four nations involved in the project provisionally agreed on a contract for development, production and in-service support of the platform.
The House has passed the fiscal 2021 defense policy conference report by an overwhelming 335-78 vote, a veto-proof majority, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) says.
Textron’s Bell helicopter division has acquired Response Technologies, a Rhode Island-based startup focused on flexible, additively manufactured, textile-reinforced composites and fuel cells.
A spat between Russian and Ukrainian aerospace firms has deepened over accusations that Ukrainian overhauls of Russian-built helicopters could be endangering the lives of U.S. and Afghan personnel.
France’s future aircraft carrier will be nuclear powered, President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed, but there is still no firm decision on whether there will be more than one ship.
The sample container that descended into Australia to conclude a six-year roundtrip mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu has arrived in Japan.
Northrop Grumman announced late Dec. 7 that it will sell its federal information technology and mission support services business to private equity investor Veritas Capital for $3.4 billion.
The NASA astronauts assigned to Artemis III, the first mission to return human explorers to the Moon, should be trained, equipped and supported to carry out a far-reaching science agenda, a new report says.
