Defense and Space

Canadian aerospace and defense training leader CAE will use proceeds from the sale to pay off debt and invest in its core training and simulation markets.

Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to extend their JDAM wing kit partnership through 2028.

Aging fleets and regional instability are making Gulf Cooperation Council member countries prime marketing opportunities for airlifter OEMs.

The company is developing a large spacecraft to transport, host, refuel and provide data and other services for multiple payloads.

Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.

The UK has been OK’d to purchase up to 3,000 Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) to equip its new Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters.

The Biden administration is standing up a technology center of excellence around Spokane, Washington.

Airbus and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to bid on the modernization of the UK’s Skynet military communications satellites.

Pakistan and Belarus have joined the China-led International Lunar Research Station program, according to the China National Space Administration.

The Pentagon is surging additional advanced air defense systems to the Middle East amid an increase in attacks on its forces in the region.

Airbus will pursue the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 recapitalization program on its own without prior partner Lockheed Martin.

Airbus Defense and Space has agreed to upgrade France’s A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports.

A company has announced a “record-setting” $100 million “seed” round of venture capital investment toward its proposed platform for lunar transportation.

A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.

A 10-year-old Poway, California-based company says it has applied for an export license for a synthetic pilot that can command a simulated weapon system.

NASA is addressing two issues with its 1970s-era Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes.

Studies are underway to fulfill another unnamed customer's export requirements for the FA-50, according to a KAI update at the Seoul ADEX airshow.

Combat aircraft procurement among the Gulf Cooperation Council states is in constant flux, given the geopolitics and threats faced in the region.

Boeing on Oct. 20 resumed deliveries of its KC-46 tanker to the U.S. Air Force following an almost two-month pause due to red-tape issues.

NASA intends to develop a spacecraft that will rendezvous with, refuel and relocate Landsat 7, an Earth-observation satellite, to extend its life in LEO.

The UK has issued a new policy framework for its pursuit of a positioning, navigation and timing framework to guard against an outage during an emergency.

Space economy venture-capital investments rose 17% year-on-year to $3 billion across 103 companies in the third quarter of 2023.