Defense

A global contract for development, production and introduction into service is close to signature.

Ryan Aerospace Australia has been awarded a contract to supply the U.S. Army with 31 Helimod Mark III helicopter simulators.

The brain trust behind the Gabelli investor conference and the erstwhile L-3 Communications may be making a new C4ISR giant.

The Falcon 9 launch—the company’s first since August and 11th for the year—was the fourth flight for the rocket being used and demonstrated the first reuse of a payload fairing.

The U.S. Air Force is using virtual reality technology for helicopter pilot training to increase throughput as it prepares for the arrival of the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter.

As key crewed flight tests of Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon slip into 2020, NASA is taking measures to ensure it maintains a minimal U.S. presence aboard the International Space Station.

Retired five-time NASA space shuttle astronaut Bonnie Dunbar leads an effort she describes as “a bit science fiction” to improve future spacesuits.

An inside look at what it takes to get the world’s most expensive warship into shape for its first deployment.

L3Harris Technologies and Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) are collaborating to establish a rotary and fixed-wing flight training and aircraft maintainer programme for the Royal Saudi Armed Forces.

Space-based analytics startup Ursa said it raised $15 million in Series B venture capital funding led by Razor’s Edge Ventures, a backer of several space and defense upstarts.

Despite two recent setbacks, Kratos’ top executive hasn’t changed his positive outlook on two of the company’s unmanned aircraft system programs.

The Air Force has described MSDM as a small missile interceptor about one-third the size of the 9-ft.-long Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder.

The potential 10-aircraft order by the UAE could be the first in a series of international orders.

Madrid’s decision to make Indra the lead for FCAS in Spain has dismayed Airbus, prompting it to question whether the Spanish company has the “necessary skill set ... to ensure the success of the program,”

Two Zephyrs have been lost in weather-related incidents since Airbus began testing production-standard air vehicles at Wyndham, Western Australia.

HAPSMobile says its AeroVironment-built Hawk30 solar-powered, high-altitude unmanned aircraft has completed its second flight at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

Germany’s diamond shaped LO demonstrator could be the jewel that shapes a future combat aircraft.

Boeing quickly homed in on the cause of the failure: a misconfigured rigging line between the main parachute and the pilot chute that pulls it out.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin are now the two confirmed bidders for Canada's Future Fighter Capability program, with the F/A-18E/F and F-35A as the eligible candidates.

The demonstration keeps Lockheed’s technology in the Air Force’s field of view as competitor Raytheon's laser technology prepares to enter a year-long operational assessment overseas.

OneWeb says it is delaying launch of its next batch of 30-plus spacecraft from December to January to allow time for additional testing.

Andrew Adams will oversee strategy and operations for Lockheed’s campaigns to win contracts under the Defense Department’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative.

Details of an early upgrade program that could begin on German EF2000s as soon as mid-2022 have been revealed by Airbus.

The Pentagon has issued a laundry list of items that are “most in peril” during a potential six-month continuing resolution.

“We will purchase the newest type of Block 72 Viper,” Marshal Yuyu Sutisna told the Antara news agency, referring to the informal nickname of the single-engine fighter.