With no winner in its Launch Challenge, DARPA is now looking at the possibly of staging the demonstration of a flexible, responsive launch of a small satellite during a major military exercise.
The service has launched the Agility Prime program with the goal of accelerating the FAA certification of commercial eVTOL cargo and passenger vehicles.
U.S. defense officials are considering a “broad set” of scramjet-powered, hypersonic cruise missiles as the U.S. Air Force focuses in the near term on preparing a follow-on program to DARPA's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept.
President Donald Trump has nominated Gen. Charles Brown as U.S. Air Force chief of staff. If confirmed by the Senate he will be the first African-American officer to serve in the role.
The most contentious U.S. defense issue lawmakers will debate before crafting the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill is nuclear modernization, a senior lawmaker says.
Small-satellite manufacturer GomSpace last year cut more than 100 workers from its staff—which numbered 231 at the start of 2019—as it sought about $6.3 million worth of cost savings while wrestling with “the loss of the large Sky and Space Global order.”
Private equity investors are combining Aero Precision and Kellstrom Defense, both military aircraft MRO specialists, to become “one of the largest privately owned military aftermarket distribution businesses in the industry,” the companies said March 2.
Four companies have joined the Saab Gripen E’s proposal for the C$15-20 billion Future Fighter Capability contract in Canada, which remains in a recently extended competitive phase.
Luxemburg-based SES, which operates and is planning a multi-orbit constellation of satellites including the medium Earth orbit O3b system, will look to spin off its data business with a remaining, restructured company to focus on video services to airliners, ocean liners and the direct-to-home market, executives said March 2.
As Boeing begins to manufacture T-7A Red Hawk engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) aircraft for Air Force testing, the company still is using its two production-representative jets to collect data.
After December's troubled flight test, Boeing says it will adopt a more thorough approach as it continues to pursue certification for its Starliner capsule.
The U.S. Air Force terminated one of two hypersonic missile prototypes a year before a planned decision point to divert funding for other priorities and preserve funding for the more advanced high-speed missile, the top acquisition official said Feb. 28.
Small Diameter Bombs and Miniature Air-Launched Decoys will demonstrate a new semi-autonomous weapon technology later this year, an Air Force Research Laboratory official says.
Despite ongoing problems with the Boeing KC-46, the U.S. Air Force is likely to continue to purchase the flawed aircraft at a rate of 15 per year, the service’s acquisition chief says.
