Defense

The CPS program leads a new wave of spending on seven different offensive prototype weapons or demonstrators spread across three different services and DARPA.

The U.S. Air Force plans to deploy a new version of Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) missile on the F-35A.

The USAF’s new Skyborg project has a five-year deadline to produce a “fighter-like” prototype of an unmanned aircraft that uses a software-controlled “brain.”

The Israeli Ministry of Defense successfully completed a series of intercept tests of an advanced version of the David’s Sling long-range rocket interceptor.

The New Mexico congressional delegation is urging the Pentagon to establish the Space Development Agency (SDA) in its state.

An Australian company is working to set up a polar-orbit launch base on the southern edge of the continent.

The launch of India’s Emisat advanced electronic intelligence (Elint) satellite has been postponed until April to allow for more testing.

Differences in foreign policy, arms-sales practices and industrial incentives could kill the aircraft before it gets off the ground.

The manufacturer remains committed to developing new military aircraft after commercial merger with Boeing.

Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva will step down as chief executive of Embraer on April 22.

Twelve Joint Strike Fighter-related military construction projects may be delayed or canceled, including an F-35 maintenance hangar, to pay for U.S. President Donald Trump’s barrier projects on the southern border.

A disposable unmanned cargo glider designed to enable aircraft to resupply fast-moving ground forces over greater distances has entered a new phase of flight testing.

Israeli intelligence is closely following the production sites of Iranian-made missiles in Syria.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV delivered the USAF's 10th WGS satellite to geosynchronous orbit March 15 following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral.

Egypt has signed an agreement to buy about 20 Russian-made Su-35 fighter jets for nearly $2 billion, Russian news outlets say.

Japan has begun the process of acquiring Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightnings by preparing to issue a request for proposals for STOVL fighters.

Australia is acquiring a second pair of Gulfstream G550s modified by L3 for vaguely described electronic warfare missions.

If the climate change saga has a sequel, it might be planetary defense from a large meteor, asteroid or comet.

Singapore is updating its F-16s to an advanced standard, but they will be out of service within a decade.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS) late March 14.

It looks like Mauritania is about to receive a second Basler turbo-Dak intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, writes Jon Lake.

Construction is due to begin next month on an equatorial space launch base in northern Australia, with initial suborbital shots planned for this year.

The five-year spending plan stops short of establishing a traditional program of record for a hypersonic vehicle.

Air navigation service providers in the UK and Canada will soon start a joint trial of space-based surveillance of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic.

A U.S./Russian two-man, one-woman crew launched March 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a fast-track to the International Space Station.