“This is a terrific endorsement and a transformational capital infusion which enables us to go full speed ahead towards our goals of commercial service and building additional spaceships,” Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides says.
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification worth more than $7 billion before finalizing a much larger bundle of contracts and agreements to buy more than 470 F-35s for delivery between 2020 and 2022, fulfilling the last three years of low-rate production.
Lockheed Martin has started talks about expanding the capability of a helicopter-borne radar decoy and jammer designed initially for defending U.S. Navy ships from missile attacks, the company says.
Lockheed Martin is building the first pod selected by the U.S. Army to demonstrate a signals intelligence and electronic attack capability on an MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system ahead of a planned competition.
U.S. Delta Force special operators and at least one dog were ferried by a mix of eight Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and Boeing H-47 Chinook helicopters to raid a compound housing the founder and leader of ISIS.
Airbus Helicopters is looking to combine artificial intelligence with its manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) technology to address concerns over pilot workload.
“We expect to monetize Forcepoint to create value for our shareholders,” Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy said during a quarterly update from company leaders.
NASA’s Mars InSight lander is once again hammering its way into the crust of Elysium Planetia, a stretch of smooth plain on the red planet’s northern equatorial belt.
The last RAF Tucanos performed a 10-ship formation flight over RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, on Oct. 25, marking the end of the last basic fast jet training course to use the platform.
Northrop Grumman “looks forward” to submitting its bid for the U.S. Air Force’s Ground-based Strategic Defense intercontinental ballistic missile replacement program in December,
First it was hypersonic missiles, now the U.S. is reacting to advances in directed-energy weapons by potential adversaries by exploring ideas for countering high energy laser (HEL) systems.
FAA and the German Aerospace Center have signed a memorandum of cooperation to identify data that should be shared when space launch and re-entry operations traverse the airspace of different countries.
The cabin electronics branch of Thales and telecom operator SES have demoed the use of a hybrid geostationary and medium Earth orbit sat network for improved inflight connectivity.
As the U.S. military grapples with the global pilot shortage, the armed services are adopting various retention methods, from incentive pay to retiree recall.
U.S. Air Force adversary air providers; European tanker requirements; Russia seeks MiG-35 customers; and the U.S. is now operating polar protected satcom satellites.
“Politicians do not have all the right answers,” he argues. “We need to fight for our real business interests and not be shy to lock horns with governments.”
