Defense

The $517 million contract preserves GE’s role as the dominant U.S. supplier of turboshaft engines for current and future military helicopters.

A German and an Israeli company on Jan. 29 signed a teaming agreement to offer commercial Lunar Surface Access Service.

Photos posted on Twitter show bureau officials posing with a DJI Phantom on a table, while another small quadcopter is shown in a plastic bag.

The Israeli Defense Force’s long-term plans call for buying missiles to add firepower to ground units if the Air Force’s firepower is limited.

A keel beam corrosion scare earlier this year caused the USAF to briefly ground 396 KC-135s for a fleet-wide inspection that identified 15 affected aircraft.

“We’re very confident about our aero outlook for 2019,” Honeywell Chairman and CEO Darius Adamczyk said Feb. 1.

NASA has selected the Atlas V for the 2021 launching of Lucy, a 12-year mission to explore the Trojan asteroids that accompany Jupiter as it orbits the Sun.

The U.S. and Russian militaries will be free to develop ground-launched, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic and cruise missiles after Aug. 2.

Germany has excluded the F-35 as a potential replacement for the Panavia Tornado and shortlisted both the Eurofighter and Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet.

UK lawmakers warn that the affordability gap in the country’s defense spending plans could widen to $20 billion if it does not bring its planning under control.

Northrop Grumman saw higher 4Q 2018 revenue from a black program in its Manned Aircraft business unit, but expects 2019 revenue for the program and unit to be flat.

After the delivery of the KC-46A tanker, the service is looking to detach itself from future, platform-centric plans. Listen in as our editors discuss.

Malaysia has begun a quest to purchase light combat aircraft (LCA) and unmanned surveillance and attack aircraft.

In the service’s second air accident in a week, an Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 trainer has crashed in the south Indian city of Bengaluru, killing two pilots.

The U.S. Air Force chief of staff discusses plans for the future force and the services’ light attack experiment.

The U.S. Navy should acknowledge a new cost overrun and a schedule delay on the Sikorsky CH-53K development program to fix multiple design problems, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester says.

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $14.9 billion contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding to finalize a two-ship aircraft carrier buy.

A U.S. defense budget expert says proposals to dramatically increase the size of the USAF and Navy should be sacrificed for higher spending on modernization.

Raytheon is seeing astronomical growth in classified military orders, but it could also spur some near-term disappointment with investors and financial analysts.

Some clever repurposing of a navigational device on NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is helping scientists unravel the mysterious past of Mount Sharp.

Boeing delivered two more KC-46 tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 31, less than a week after handing over the first two jets, the company said.

Two pioneering U.S. and Japanese sample return missions now closely surveying two near-Earth asteroids are paying wide-ranging dividends.

The Russian Aerospace Forces will receive the first new Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber in 2021

Nanoracks logged five CubeSat deployments from the International Space Station’s Japanese Kibo lab module on Jan. 31.

India’s national space agency has set up a human spaceflight center as its gears up to launch the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, by 2022.