Defense

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to reduce defense spending by 8% in 2020.

The U.S. government and Sikorsky have solidified a production fix for the CH-53K King Stallion exhaust gas reingestion problem.

More highly integrated composite structure is a possible technology for a future Chinese fighter.

Private equity-backed Shimtech Industries has purchased Fastener Technology Corp.

Airbus is beginning talks with workforce representatives to address cost structure and boost the division’s long-term competitiveness.

Plans to buy new fighters, helicopters, tankers and tiltrotors are on hold until a new government can be formed.

Rocket Lab looks for up to a dozen payload launches a year, while the spaceport is in talks to bring in more launch providers.

Turkey’s defense ties with Russia are causing problems with NATO and the U.S., while local weapons development continues.

Continuing Middle East instability prompts capability-strengthening and local defense industry growth, especially in the Gulf states.

A year of change is in store for the military organizations tasked with intercepting missiles launched from another continent. In the U.S., the $160

The Pentagon’s vast hypersonic investment strategy will finally enter the flight-test stage in 2020.

Even flagging helicopter products are finding customers in the midst of defense spending hikes.

AIDC of China and LOCKHEED MARTIN signed agreement Dec. 17 to establish F-16 maintenance hub in Taiwan, China News Agency says.

The deal gives Leidos an instant foothold in Huntsville, increasingly the epicenter of U.S. missile and military space work

NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force is gearing up for the first flights from its Italian base.

Lockheed Martin has extended its long-running hypersonic links with Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Congressional appropriators approved a $310 million budget in fiscal 2020 to jump-start a competitive development process for a Next Generation Interceptor.

Lockheed Martin formally opened a new assembly line for F-16 Block 70 aircraft in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 17.

Funding for space situational awareness and position, navigation and timing were the biggest losers for space in the fiscal 2020 defense appropriations minibus.

The head of the U.S. Air Force’s space acquisition enterprise admits the establishment of a Space Force as a sixth armed service poses a challenge for

Lockheed Martin F-35As previously designated for Turkey will be converted to the U.S. Air Force fleet, congressional appropriators said on Dec. 17.

The bill would support the creation of a Space Force but cut roughly $32 million from standup costs.

A minor flight test incident in October did nothing to dampen enthusiasm for the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie in Congress.

House appropriators have agreed to partially reverse a proposed 50% cut to the USAF's requested fiscal 2020 budget for the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

A conference agreement by the House and Senate on Dec. 16 inserts at least three-quarters of a billion dollars in fiscal 2020 budget accounts linked to the U.S. military’s bulging hypersonic weapons portfolio.