Defense

The acting U.S. Navy secretary is holding a “Make Ford Ready” summit Jan. 9 that will feature all government and industry stakeholders who will focus on achieving four tasks to ensure the USS Gerald R. Ford deploys on time.

A powered target simulating a cruise missile was shot down by a guided 2.75-in. rocket fired by a Lockheed Martin F-16 to demonstrate a relatively affordable capability to defend bases from attacks by waves of cheap cruise missiles.

Japan will extended local assembly of Lockheed Martin F-35s by at least two years.

The FAA has agreed to pause its evaluation of a commercial space launch site proposed by Camden County, Georgia, on the U.S. Atlantic coast.

Whether more management heads roll at Boeing remains to be seen now that Dennis Muilenburg has been fired as chief executive.

CAPE CANAVERAL — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, a commercial low Earth orbit human transportation system developed in partnership with NASA, returned

LONDON – The British government has approved the £4 billion ($5.2 billion) takeover of defense company Cobham by U.S. private equity firm Advent. Late

WASHINGTON – The U.S. FAA has pledged to release a draft rule prescribing a means to identify drones from the ground by the end of December. After

The U.S. military is immediately assigning over 16,000 personnel to the new entity.

NASA could be a year away from having a cost estimate for accelerating its lunar plans.

The U.S. Air Force has ended its three-month ban on KC-46A cargo and passenger operations.

Argentina will purchase four Lockheed P-3Cs retired by the U.S. Navy.

President Trump is expected to sign two minibus appropriations bills that include a provision allowing NASA to buy more Russian Soyuz seats to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.

The Japanese defense ministry has published a new design for the country’s next fighter.

EMBRAER and BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE signed MOU to study potential development of new light military transport aircraft.

BOEING successfully launched the first Starliner space capsule on Dec 20.

Space launch provider Virgin Orbit says it has delivered a flight-worthy LauncherOne rocket to its Mojave, California facility and is poised to

Local production of the Sikorsky UH-60J has suffered the largest cut in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year OK'd by Japan.

Boeing and NASA were working to preserve as many test objectives as possible for the unmanned orbital debut of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner after a timer issue scuttled the capsule’s engine firing needed to reach the ISS.

Boeing fixing KC-46 issues as deliveries continue; Airbus’ MRTT adds orders.

Following a GAO ruling, the Air Force will have to be more strategic in pairing up best offerings for launch service contracts.

From fighters to helicopters, tanker/transports to trainers and special mission aircraft here are more details about key contests.

From environmental pressures to transformational technologies, significant changes lie ahead for the aerospace and defense industry.

Fighter/attack aircraft costs, F-35 and A400M snapshots, combat aircraft to watch and military transport aircraft marketshare.

A look back at aviation and aerospace milestones that occurred over the last 10 years.