Defense

While endorsing NASA’s deep-space exploration plans, Senate panel members urged the agency not to abandon the International Space Station before 2029.

A USAF probe of a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 crash has faulted procedures that undermined the quadruplex redundancy design of the UAS's onboard navigation system.

Boeing’s effort to sell KC-46 refueling tanker to Israel may have received a lift after objections raised by an Israeli company seem to have been resolved.

The U.S. Marine Corps is awaiting defense secretary approval to take the Boeing Compact Laser Weapons System to the field, the service’s program manager says.

Leonardo’s offer for Japan’s nascent AH-X attack helicopter program includes technology transfer and local manufacturing, the company says.

A $19 million Series B venture capital round will allow Capella Space to go ahead with the planned November launch of its first small sat, executives said.

CAE was previous a subcontractor to Lockheed, which has been prime contractor for the C-130H aircrew training system since 1998.

Canadian space boosters and industry are trying to raise public awareness about securing the country’s role in future Western space projects.

Aviation services and MRO giant AAR expects to sell its Afghanistan war-related contractor-owned, contractor-operated aviation services business by next May.

The US Army is carrying out market research to find a contractor that can deliver a level 5 flight-training device (FTD) to Kenya, with a potential option for an additional Huey II FTD for the Republic of Uganda, writes Jon Lake.

The Japanese defense ministry hopes to get funding to Subaru to begin production of UH-Xs in the fiscal year beginning in April 2019.

It could come down to a matter of timing, as the U.S. Army balances its requirements for new armed reconnaissance and long-range assault rotorcraft.

“Northrop Grumman intends to be a dominant player in the counter-hypersonics space or lead it,” Vice President of Missile Defense Solutions Kenn Todorov told Aerospace DAILY.

The U.S. Marine Corps is assessing various acquisition methods to purchase the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX).

India’s decision to buy 36 Rafale fighters from France has resulted in a political fight.

A NASA report foresees a human return to the lunar surface by the late 2020s with an evolving U.S. commercial and global partnership that opens the way to Mars.

The incident involving the Lockheed Martin-built, single-engine fighter resulted in no damage to the aircraft or injury to the pilot, says a spokesperson for the VFA-125 naval strike fighter squadron.

All indications point to a massive Israeli air campaign against Iranian efforts to build a missile production facility in Syria.

A new look at the origin of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, using data gathered by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), supports an impact theory.

High-profile drone and software provider Airobotics of Israel has opened an office in Scottsdale, Arizona, that will become the startup’s global headquarters.

India’s national space agency is working to usher in an era of high-speed internet connectivity with the launch of three heavyweight comms satellites by 2020.

Sat tracking, data and comm provider Blue Sky Network has acquired Applied Satellite Engineering, a designer and manufacturer of advanced sat comm equipment.

NASA’s budget represents one half of one percent of the federal budget, Administrator Jim Bridenstine says. “If we had a full 1% of the federal budget you can imagine the impact we would have.”

Boeing has received the first installment of $2.38 billion the U.S. Air Force will spend on the Huey replacement effort.

Defense Secretary James Mattis says the S-300 missile system keeps Assad in a position of obstruction.