A new electronic warfare upgrade for the U.S. Air National Guard and Reserve F-16 fleets establishes Elbit Systems of America in the U.S. market for fixed-wing aircraft survivability equipment and opens the door to follow-on sales, the company’s CEO said during an April 14 interview.
A network of wide-area persistent surveillance missions, executed in large part by unmanned aircraft systems, can help provide an affordable deterrent to Chinese and Russian aggression, a Washington think tank argues.
The U.S. Air Force has started a new phase of integration and electromagnetic interference testing on a $3 billion electronic warfare upgrade for the F-15E and F-15EX fleets, the service announced in an April 14 news release.
More than a dozen companies and government agencies are seeking to use drones in ways that are beyond what is currently allowed by FAA regulations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said April 15.
Osiris-Rex, NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission, successfully carried out a 4-hr. series of spacecraft maneuvers and deployments on April 14, preliminary data show.
The White House has selected the chief executives from General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies to serve on the “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups.”
Howmet Aerospace has eight mostly smaller manufacturing plants that are closed because of the coronavirus, the company’s chief executive said late April 14, and more were shuttered in March when the Pittsburgh-based supplier was still part of Arconic.
Spirit AeroSystems—the primary supplier to Boeing including for much of the 737 MAX and which does substantial defense industry work—warned Wall Street on April 14 it will record a roughly $160 million loss for the recently ended first quarter of 2020, as well as a pretax loss of around $102 million.
Boeing on April 13 completed the first flight of the F-15QA ordered by the Qatari Royal Air Force, passing a key milestone before a scheduled first delivery next year.
Intuitive Machines has selected the planned date and landing site for its first mission to the Moon’s surface under its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services agreement.
Citing the bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite communications company, the U.S. government should consider adding $2.5 billion in funding for space programs, along with multiple policy proposals to maintain the military space industrial base and U.S. strategic dominance in the domain in the face of threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry trade group recommends.
