Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center intends to unveil a Space Situational Awareness Marketplace later this year to help satisfy the military’s insatiable appetite for data.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Belgium will receive new fighters, airlifters and intelligence-gathering capabilities during the 2020s.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
With gradual funding secured, Europe moves ahead with reusable launcher demonstrators.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Elbit will fly several different unmanned aircraft systems for the maritime demo, including its 1.2-metric-ton Hermes 900.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A manned EA-18G controlled two other Growlers in flight as part of a joint Boeing/U.S. Navy demo of manned-unmanned teaming by a carrier-based fighter aircraft.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
CP Technologies, a subsidiary of Israel’s Aeronautics, has established a business unit to pursue U.S. defense and civil markets for the parent company’s range of unmanned aircraft systems.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
After a tough year in 2019, Maxar Technologies has secured a trio of contract awards.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Special Operations Command has revived the Defense Department’s on-again, off-again pursuit of a light attack aircraft fleet by announcing plans to acquire a new fleet of manned aircraft to perform the “armed overwatch” mission.
Defense

ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX (AEDC), TN plans in 2H20 to reopen 16-ft supersonic wind tunnel at Arnold AFB; it closed in late 1990s.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Leidos, a giant provider of technology and services to U.S. government agencies, is buying two airport security and services units from L3Harris Technologies for $1 billion.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force’s first Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has touched down on British soil.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Operators say more spaceports will be needed to support launch demand.
Air Transport

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

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News in brief
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The €3.6 billion ($4 billion) final agreements that Airbus has reached with French, UK and U.S. authorities to resolve a corruption case, although colossal, are in fact a satisfactory outcome for the company.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The show may go on at the upcoming Singapore Airshow, but not for some companies and foreign delegations.
Singapore Airshow

By Tony Osborne
Germany has terminated plans to develop a signals intelligence platform based on Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4 Triton high-altitude, long-endurance platform.
Defense

Stew Miller to Executive Vice President-Strategic Systems of Aerion Supersonic, Reno, NV.
Defense

AERION SUPERSONIC began initial concept development for first in family of high-altitude supercruise aircraft for the US defense market.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy has moved to greatly expand the role of P-8A maritime patrol aircraft by proposing to integrate several new types of missiles, bombs, mines and advanced decoys.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The government of Ghana has been drawn into the controversy surrounding the Airbus bribery probe after it emerged that payments were made to secure the sale of C295 turboprop airlifters to the African republic’s military.
Defense