Defense

The first U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron has received its “safe for flight” operations certification.

An electrical turbogenerator has been test fitted on a Yakovlev Yak-40 flying testbed at a Siberian research institute as part of a Russian project to demonstrate hybrid-electric propulsion for short- and medium-haul airliners.

General Dynamics has become the latest aerospace and defense giant to warn investors that the COVID-19 crisis is a risk to the company.

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British scientists and academics are studying the potential use of diamond batteries to provide long-lasting energy resources that could power small satellites and sensors.

GE Aviation, the leading division within General Electric, is cutting 10% of its U.S. workforce as it anticipates a steep falloff in maintenance, repair and overhaul work for three months, and it will continue to let go outsourced workers in the wake of the novel coronavirus, the company’s head executive said March 23.

Major aviation training and simulator provider CAE said it is temporarily laying off at least 465 staff starting March 27 and cutting staff manager salaries in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

Looking to close dozens of capability gaps for reaching Mars with human explorers, NASA expects to rely on activities aboard the International Space Station and future lunar-orbiting Gateway, as well as terrestrial work in locations that can act as analogs for the red planet.

Embraer has placed all employees at sites in Brazil who cannot perform their jobs remotely on temporary paid leave through March 31 because of the virus causing COVID-19, the company said.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida remained open on March 23 to personnel working on Mars 2020, Commercial Crew and Cargo and other mission-critical programs despite its first confirmed case of the coronavirus COVID-19.

Radar development for the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X is moving toward production of a prototype, following evaluation of a technology demonstrator in Israel and South Korea.

With cases of COVID-19 on the rise, NASA shutters Stennis and Michoud centers.

Addressing a growing demand for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance by the Israel Defense Forces in the 1990s IAI began providing such

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 21 to deliver another 34 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is

The Pentagon will pay up to 90% of billed work immediately for large contractors and 95% for small businesses.

LOS ANGELES -- As part of efforts to sustain operations and increase its chances of receiving a state bailout to offset the devastating impact of the

Marcel Dassault hired Saget as a test pilot in 1955 and later appointed him chief test pilot.

The Pentagon is in talks on invoking the Defense Production Act to support the government’s response to COVID-19.

With the defense industrial base formally declared "critical infrastructure," the Defense Department is emphasizing the supply chain's "special responsibility" to maintain schedules.

Despite COVID-19 Britain is undertaking its biggest defense and foreign policy review since Cold War.

The March 19 test means the technology can transition into weapon systems development for the Army and Navy, the Pentagon says.

A U.S. Air Force active duty member who works for the Defense Health Agency has tested positive for COVID-19.

Two lawmakers are making a bipartisan plea to House Appropriations defense subcommittee leadership for the purchase of two MQ-4C Tritons in fiscal 2021.

A new, low-cost turbojet designed to power future generations of swarming cruise missiles has completed flight testing, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on March 19.

FARNBOROUGH INTL cancelled the 2020 Farnborough International Airshow due to COVID-19; 2022 Farnborough Intl Airshow is scheduled for July 17-24.