Defense

The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded L3Harris and SpaceX contracts to each build four satellites for detecting and tracking ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

Recovering, reflying SpaceX Falcon 9s will save Space Force $53 million.

Interservice Roles Dispute Erupts As Army Defines Vision For Long-Range Targeting

Preparation for the information age means a generational change for the operating concept of the British Armed Forces.

By Bob Hogg, Director A&D Market Strategy - SDL Technical publications supporting the operations and maintenance of complex assets in the aerospace

Washington-based Meta Aerospace has acquired four Boeing KC-135Rs from the Singapore government to offer aerial refueling services to the U.S. government.

A new era of ubiquitous teaming between manned and unmanned military aircraft is not far away.

A Russian military flight test center celebrated its 100th anniversary on Sept. 29 by publishing a video showing the flight of a group of four Su-57 fighters, one of which carried two R-77M medium-range air-to-air missiles that had not been seen before.

ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA has 5-year, $35m US Navy contract to perform LRU repairs for V-22s at Fort Worth and Talladega.

Ask the Editors: Software has made great strides, but pilots are still needed to handle complex missions in the real world.

BOEING selected Queensland, Australia as site to assemble unmanned Boeing Airpower Teaming System.

Safran has added Spain’s ITP Aero to its team developing a new turboprop engine from the Ardiden 3 turboshaft.

Northrop Grumman’s 14th NASA-contracted resupply mission Cygnus capsule reached the International Space Station early Oct. 5, delivering a nearly 7,800-lb. cargo.

A Boeing loyal-wingman drone under development in Australia may be assembled in the northeastern state of Queensland.

Electronic warfare programs feature prominently in the Japanese defense ministry’s request for funding for the next fiscal year.

An inside look into the U.S. Army’s radical experiment, Project Convergence, a sensor-to-shooter demonstration.

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

News in brief

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Northrop Grumman's 14th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply capsule was on course to reach the International Space Station early Oct. 5th with a diverse

U.S. Army Funds Research Into Multifuel Engines For UAVs Graham Warwick, [email protected] Technology enabling unmanned aircraft engines to run on whatever type of fuel is locally available is to be developed under an $11.4 million grant awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

The U.S. is shifting its irregular warfare strategy to a broader approach that includes information warfare and gray zone operations to counter China, Iran and Russia, a Pentagon official says.

A joint venture of the UK government and Indian mobile network operator Bharti Global has won U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to buy aspiring global, high-speed internet-via-satellite operator OneWeb.

The broad agency announcement (BAA) released on Sep.t 28 adds to a flurry of activity by MDA over the past two years as the agency builds a layered hypersonic defense weapon system from scratch.

The U.S. Air Force and Army have signed a two-year collaboration agreement to develop Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities with a focus on defining mutual standards for data sharing on a future battlefield.