Defense

Britain’s decision to pursue a potential sole-source purchase of Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft was based on the risks and incompatibilities associated with the potential competitors.

The operational addition of the Raytheon-built derivative of the 500-lb. Paveway series improves the F-35’s ability to hit moving targets.

Bahrain has become the second export customer for the Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter after firming up a $916 million Foreign Military Sale.

Australia has chosen the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper for an armed drone requirement intended to support expeditionary operations.

Russia’s Progress MS-10 cargo capsule is on course for a Nov. 18 docking with the International Space Station.

NASA’s looming top management and performance challenges are hardly unfamiliar, according to an annual assessment provided by the agency’s inspector general.

India’s national space agency has issued a global call for proposals to perform experiments on its Venus probe scheduled for launch in mid-2023.

NorthStar Earth & Space, which aims to provide satellite-based Earth observation and orbital debris tracking, has raised C$52 million ($39.5 million).

Days after delivering a payload of cubesats into orbit, U.S. smallsat launch firm Rocket Lab has closed on an additional financing round of $140 million.

Airspace Technologies, a startup pitching proprietary software for time-definite logistics in air cargo, has raised $20 million in venture capital funding.

The Botswana Defence Force Air Wing has acquired a second-hand Airbus CAS C-212 light turboprop transport aircraft to replace one similar that crashed in 2017.

Nanosatellite startup AST&Science says Midland, Texas, will be the site of its proposed high-volume North American sat manufacturing plant and corporate HQ.

An industry-wide call for proposals for a small, inexpensive unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for U.S. Army platoons will close on Nov. 18.

Bangladesh to reduce dependence on foreign supplies; Bahrain welcomes two C-130Js; Elbit Asia-Pacific deal; Philippines receive Japanese helo parts.

The Pentagon will present its fiscal 2020 budget request that includes the White House’s mandated 5% spending cut to President Donald Trump the week of Nov. 26.

Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan and U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson disagree over the cost of a U.S. Space Force.

A petition for exemptions from FAA rules governing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) reveals rotorcraft developer Bell plans to use a large commercial multicopter drone, the xFold DragonH, for research and development flying.

The Pentagon has failed its first large-scale audit, but a senior official said the department never expected to pass.

The U.S. Air Force has downgraded two Category-1 deficiencies for the KC-46A Pegasus

The UK Ministry of Defense has reaffirmed plans to order 17 more Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters as part of a three-year block buy currently being negotiated.

IAI's G550 CAEW aircraft pioneered the current worldwide trend of using high-performance fuel-efficient business jets for Airborne Early Warning and other special missions.

Astronics, an Upstate New York supplier of aircraft passenger seat power and other products to the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, as well as technologies for the semiconductor sector, said it would move away from the latter to focus more on its growing A&D business.

NASA and Northrop Grumman have delayed for a second day the company’s 10th agency contracted resupply mission launch to the International Space Station.

ArianeGroup will look to cut its workforce by 2,300 workers over the next four years as the European rocket company tries to transition into profitable operations of its new Ariane 6 space launcher.

The Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operated by the British Army is scheduled to achieve full operational capability (FOC) in early 2019.