Seven weeks after calling for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024, President Donald Trump announced the price tag for expediting the program: an extra $1.6 billion for fiscal 2020.
After 30 years at Raytheon and Hughes in electro-optical imaging and Applied Signal Tech, Stefan Baur recently over the firm's Electronic Warfare Systems product line.
The USAF has described a possible new approach to rescuing down pilots and wounded soldiers: Air-drop an autonomous aircraft to pick them up and fly them to safety.
The U.S. Air National Guard is to conduct trials with Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable active decoy as part of the U.S. Foreign Comparative Testing program.
Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.
Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.
Turkish industry is responding to local and export needs for longer-legged, more capable drones. Two twin-engine MALE UAVs are currently in development.
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, today inaugurated the advanced technology conglomerate, EDGE, set to reposition the UAE as a global player in advanced tech and evolve national security solutions and industries beyond defence.
A contract signing by July would break a string of protracted negotiations between Lockheed and the Joint Program Office over each annual production lot.
Two of Britain’s new E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning radar aircraft will be converted from secondhand Boeing 737-700s, a ministerial letter has revealed.
As a member of the F-35 global partnership, Canada has agreed to terms that rule out offsets. But the Future Fighter Capability in Canada requires all bidders to submit proposals that comply with a policy which call for a 100% spending match on the value of the fighter contract.
An ex-U.S. Navy acquisition executive argues the bill to refuel the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman is not a large one in fiscal 2020, but the DOD will have to rework its fiscal 2021 draft request.
The top two leaders of major A&D supplier TransDigm Group will testify to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform panel about defense supply prices, along with defense officials.
NASA is assessing what specific activities would be expected of astronauts on the surface of the Moon during the 2024 return called for by the White House before it forges ahead with the development of new lunar spacesuits.
A two-year contract to design a 10 MWe-class, mobile nuclear reactor to power remote U.S. military bases and electricity-hungry weapons, such as high-powered lasers and microwaves, is now open for bidding.
