Defense

By Graham Warwick
An early leader in the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market, Joby Aviation has been secretive about its progress. But new details emerged during the virtual kickoff event of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program on April 27-May 1.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Ask the Editors: M&A is frozen for now, a lot of consolidation is likely to occur in the lower levels of the aerospace, driven by financial distress.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Lee Hudson
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold an in-person nomination hearing May 7 for the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Navy secretary and deputy under secretary of defense for policy, despite the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The proposed Foreign Military Sales revealed by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency reveal two radically different packages for the Bell AH-1Z or Boeing AH-64E Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

On the 60th anniversary of the U-2 shootdown flown by Francis Gary Powers over Sverdlovsk, USSR, we look back at seven artifacts surrounding the incident.
Defense

By Daniel Urchick
Global MiG-29 Fulcrum fleets by operator, from Aviation Week's Fleet Discovery Database. To learn about our fleet data products and services, go to: pgs.aviationweek.com/FleetDataServices
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Steve Trimble
After a late start, European industry is moving to close gap on high-speed missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Readers write about steadfast AW&ST subscribers, FARA contenders, rocket reusability and advanced propulsion.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Tony Osborne
Embraer’s C-390 should be able to hold its own on the global market, despite the Boeing joint-venture setback.
Supply Chain

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin have conducted the third successful flight test of the Precision Strike Missile (PRSM), intended to replace the Army Tactical Missile (ATACMS), with the first prototypes slated to enter the field in 2023.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will receive nearly $1 billion in NASA funding to hone designs and development plans for lunar landing systems to carry a pair of U.S. astronauts to the Moon’s surface in 2024, a time frame the agency is sticking with despite economic and social upheavals caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

By Graham Warwick
A $707 million contract for F110 engines awarded April 28 to GE Aviation was expedited to help provide relief to a U.S. propulsion industry badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has quietly cleared an important milestone for the MQ-25 Stingray, allowing Boeing to begin production of four engineering development model and three system demonstration test article aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Already cost and schedule challenged across a broad range of space initiatives, NASA faces more stress on both fronts as it surges to achieve an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface with humans in 2024, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two companies have joined forces to spark a pair of competitions for teams of 9th- through 12th-grade students to design and assemble race cars for the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Canadian Air Force is pausing operations with its Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters after a Cyclone crashed during military exercises off the coast of Greece.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
While the Pentagon intends to request billions of dollars in the next iteration of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to support the defense industrial base, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) does not believe the Defense Department (DOD) should receive stimulus funding, setting up a likely debate on which federal agencies should get cash.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

The Canadian Air Force is pausing operations with its Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters after a Cyclone crashed during military exercises off the coast of
Defense

By Steve Trimble
After a late start, European industry is moving to close gap on high-speed missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
The Federal Communications Commission green-lights a terrestrial 5G system opposed by many federal government agencies and aerospace companies.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Standoff program will help give the nation the flexibility it will need to counter a growing Chinese nuclear presence, the commander of Air Force Global Strike Command said April 29.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
Boeing does not anticipate a slowdown of the KC-46, MQ-25 or T-7 aircraft programs even though the company had to close facilities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior executives say.
Budget, Policy & Operations