With the defense industrial base formally declared "critical infrastructure," the Defense Department is emphasizing the supply chain's "special responsibility" to maintain schedules.
Two lawmakers are making a bipartisan plea to House Appropriations defense subcommittee leadership for the purchase of two MQ-4C Tritons in fiscal 2021.
A new, low-cost turbojet designed to power future generations of swarming cruise missiles has completed flight testing, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on March 19.
U.S. defense primes are increasingly securing billion-dollar sums of new debt financing as companies large and small manage a liquidity crisis stemming from the COVID-19 virus and the collapse of air travel.
Organizers of July’s Farnborough International Airshow and the Royal International Air Tattoo have decided to cancel the events in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Trump administration UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned from aerospace and defense giant Boeing’s board of directors in opposition to the company’s $60 billion bailout bid, the company said March 19.
Aircraft repairs continue as normal despite the novel coronavirus scare at the three sprawling Air Logistics Centers (ALCs), where about 25,000 workers maintain the bulk of the U.S. Air Force aircraft fleet.
Launching the Mars 2020 rover, recently named Perseverance, this summer remains among NASA’s highest priorities, despite agency-wide shutdowns of its facilities due to health concerns over the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program, which provides ground processing and launch facilities for the integrated Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, is in better shape now than when the program was last audited in 2016, but the agency needs to improve cross-program integration and testing, the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) said March 19.