Defense

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Defense Management System Modernization will be at least six to eight months late.

A House Republican is answering Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s call to repeal legislation so that the DOD can establish a combatant command for space.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is reopening the question of whether astronauts could fly on the debut mission of the Space Launch System (SLS).

The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.

Aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence algorithms could be flying operational demonstrations within three years, a senior U.S. Air Force official says.

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 helicopter is returning to Japanese army service after more than three years on the ground caused by engine unreliability.

The contract sheds a little more light on Raytheon’s closely held work developing technology for hypersonic weapons.

U.S. Navy plans to save by retiring Truman carrier; MDA delays kill-vehicle program; Philippines chooses MBDA missiles, and Australia may buy Amraams.

The RAAF’s Wedgetails have been fully operational for only four years, but a midlife update already is due.

NASA is considering the use of commercial rockets for what was supposed to be the agency’s Space Launch System debut, Exploration Mission-1, Administrator Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers.

The first task for the DOD's Space Development Agency is to design the architecture of a highly proliferated low Earth orbit sensor and communications transport layer to defend the U.S. from hypersonic missiles.

Archinaut, an effort by Made In Space, Inc., to advance 3D printing and robotic assembly capabilities, has achieved a new milestone.

The USAF secretary blasted Congress for not creating its own disaster supplemental funding plan to repair Tyndall AFB after it suffered heavy hurricane damage.

A senior Republican senator is calling the U.S. Air Force’s approach to light attack procurement “schizophrenic” and says the service’s approach is “backwards.”

An air inlet design issue on the Northrop Grumman B-21 is resolved and the secretive development program is “on the right course,” a U.S. lawmaker said.

Singapore will retire its 60 F-16s by 2030, a government presentation suggests, implying that acquisition of F-35 Lightnings will be completed in the 2020s.

Two U.S. senators have established a bipartisan artificial intelligence caucus to complement the White’s House’s AI initiative.

U.S. Air Force officials say the roughly $360 million reduction in this year’s budget reflects changes in the timing of planned investments.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will delay the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) by two years.

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.