Defense

The need for faster, longer-range, more survivable rotorcraft is taking on increasing urgency within the service.

The USMC has been working with the DOD's CAPE office to determine whether buying the CH-47 instead of the CH-53K King Stallion is a viable option.

Raytheon has detonated the warhead of a proposed surface-launched missile for the U.S. Army for the first time, moving a step closer to a planned flight test later this year.

Saab is preparing to flight test a new jammer pod using the technologies from the electronic warfare system fitted to the new Gripen E fighter.

Britain has deployed six of its nine UK-based F-35s to Cyprus for the type’s first overseas exercise.

Infrastructure for standing up a new land-based, intercontinental missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle has been deployed in southwest Russia, the Ministry of Defense announced in Moscow on May 22.

Saab plans to have eight of its new-generation Gripen E combat aircraft flying by the end of this year as it ramps up flight testing.

Sikorsky can deliver the first CH-53K heavy helicopter to the Israeli Air Force (IAF) 36 months after a contract is signed.

Evidence for significant amounts of water ice in the permanently shaded polar regions of the Moon has become a significant lure for a sustained NASA led-human return.

Crane is going public with a hostile takeover attempt to buy Circor for $1.7 billion in cash.

India’s space agency has launched its latest Earth observation satellite, Risat-2B.

The service launches a prize challenge in search of payload technologies for a shipboard unmanned aircraft before nailing down an air vehicle design.

Debate on a House Appropriations Committee bill to provide $690 billion to the Pentagon for fiscal 2020 included words of warning by the defense subcommittee chairman over the creation of the Space Force.

NASA plans to decommission the Spitzer Space Telescope in January 2020 after attempts to find a university or research agency to take over operations of the bellwether infrared observatory failed.

A government watchdog organization has recommended that the DOD conduct an independent schedule assessment for the USAF next-generation ground control system for GPS III sats, but the military disagrees.

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Barbara Barrett, former chair of the Aerospace Corporation, to be the next Air Force secretary.

A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier crashed May 20 near Havelock, North Carolina, and the pilot ejected safely from the aircraft.

Scientists from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) have compiled a widely accessible topographical map of the Moon’s south pole.

The idea that a jet's flight controls could be hijacked in flight by hackers continues to capture public imagination. Aircraft manufacturers insist it is impossible. But this does not mean that aircraft are immune from cyber attacks.

The idea that a jet's flight controls could be hijacked in flight by hackers continues to capture public imagination. Aircraft manufacturers insist it is impossible. But this does not mean that aircraft are immune from cyber attacks.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has advised organizations of “inherent risks” associated with using unmanned aircraft systems manufactured in China.

Textron Aviation is expanding its platforms for special mission capabilities as it marks delivery of its first Citation Latitude configured for medevac applications.

Advances in waveform-shifting and digital radars push the Navy to invest in EA-18G modernization.

Bell has demonstrated that the V-280 Valor tiltrotor has low-speed agility that matches or beats the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk.

A newly published unit cost estimate by the U.S. Army of $43 million for a proposed high-speed rotorcraft is an encouraging sign that service officials are entering the program with realistic expectations, a senior Boeing executive says.