Defense

The Pentagon would focus on developing payload sensors in fiscal 2020 for a future satellite constellation intended to track hypersonic glide vehicles to combat China and Russia, a senior official said.

U.S. defense officials have confirmed a proposal to buy at least 144 new F-15EXs, and potentially scores more of the latest version of Boeing’s strike fighter.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Corp. have agreed to accelerate cooperative efforts to develop a pressurized, fuel-cell-powered lunar rover for human explorers.

DOD would save $3.4 billion in procurement funds and $1 billion yearly in the operations and maintenance account by retiring the USS Harry Truman early.

The U.S. Marine Corps wants to purchase three MQ-9A Reapers in fiscal 2020 to build a cadre of unmanned aircraft system operators.

The Marines want to buy fewer F-35Bs in fiscal 2020 because a future backlog was identified for the aircraft’s C-model, the service told Aerospace DAILY.

The Pentagon is defending its unusually large $165 billion fiscal 2020 overseas contingency operations (OCO) account request.

Norway’s Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace has received its first export order for the Joint Strike Missile, with a contract from Japan for deliveries to arm its F-35As.

U.S. defense officials are accepting an overall reduction in aircraft unit procurement in the fiscal 2020 budget request, as interest rises in the next generation of hypersonic, fixed-wing and rotary-wing capabilities.

The Trump administration's "masterpiece" defense budget request already is receiving blowback from lawmakers who say the nascent request is “divorced from reality.”

The U.S. Navy's procurement request is $61 billion, a portion of which will purchase 148 aircraft.

Australia could decide this year whether and how to proceed with a mid-life update of its six Boeing 737 Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft, according to Boeing.

The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office hopes to gain airline maintenance best practices to reduce sustainment costs and improve readiness of its C-5 Galaxy fleet.

Japanese operator Nakanihon Air Service is the latest operator to begin evaluating the potential of the commercial tiltrotor.

On time, budget and specification, the program has prepared the aircraft for training pilots of Super Hornets, Growlers and Lightnings.

The U.S. Air Force resumed accepting deliveries of KC-46 tankers on March 11 after a 12-day hiatus caused by the discovery of foreign object debris on completed aircraft. on Feb. 28, followed by a sixth delivery on March 1.

The Trump administration’s $21 billion, 2020 NASA budget proposal seeks to achieve a 2028 return to the lunar surface with astronauts while working with global partners to reach Mars and other deep-space destinations.

Urban air mobility and electric propulsion are high on NASA’s plans for aeronautics research in fiscal 2020.

The DOD is submitting a fiscal 2020 budget requesting $546 billion in base spending and a contentious $165 billion overseas contingency operations account.

Autonomy, artificial intelligence and universal connectivity feature heavily in a vision for aerospace's future from the Aerospace Industries Association.

Algeria and Egypt have ordered the Sukhoi Su-35S multi-role fighter (known to NATO by the reporting name ‘Flanker-E’), risking incurring the wrath of the USA. Jon Lake reports.

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Defense Department will begin fabricating components for new ground-launched cruise missile systems formerly banned under the terms of the now-suspended Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.

By rejecting a “top-down” approach, the U.S. Transportation Department has allowed a new era of aerospace innovation to flourish.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says she may resign after being named the sole finalist for president of the University of Texas at El Paso.

The U.S. will withhold F-35s from Turkey if the country accepts an advanced Russian air defense system, the DOD says.