Defense

A Bell-led team has been selected to conduct a flight demonstration as part of NASA studies on integrating unmanned air systems into nonsegregated airspace.

Turkish Aerospace has performed the first flight of its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter.

PGZ could be involved in the support, sustainment and upgrade activity for the Apache if it is selected for Poland’s Kruk attack helicopter program.

Lockheed and Tata potentially to make F-16 wings in India; Russia to reengine Su-30SMs; India, Israel to make high-altitude UAV; Sierra Nevada bags A-29 pact.

Pentagon leaders want 3-5% budget growth after inflation. The next White House budget probably won’t give them that.

Nuclear mission is likely to be a critical element in Brussels’ future fighter thinking.

So-called boost-glide systems most likely are the intended target of Darpa's Glide Breaker program, which seeks to demonstrate defenses against hypersonic weapons such as those being developed by China and Russia.

The Pentagon is standing up a new office to help it figure out all the changes Congress has made to defense acquisition reforms, an assistant secretary of defense for acquisition enablers (ASD), according to a leading Pentagon acquisition official.

The DOD's acquisition chief says the U.S. must be transparent with the U.S. military services, international partners and foreign military sales customers on the F-35's steep sustainment cost.

Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) supports a Space Force that is a similar model to how the U.S. Marine Corps is organized.

NASA should develop an advanced space observatory capable of directly observing Earth-like extrasolar planets to seek evidence for life on a cosmic scale, a new study says.

Boeing’s KC-46 program received an STC from the FAA that verifies the platform’s refueling and mission avionics systems meet requirements.

The U.S. State Department has OK'd a possible foreign military sale to the Netherlands for the recapitalization of four Patriot Fire Units.

The Indonesia air force, seeking greater regional collaboration, is considering an offer from Singapore to train pilots of unmanned aircraft.

ArianeGroup is maintaining its goal of July 2020 for the first flight of the Ariane 6 launcher.

India’s indigenously developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has performed its first dry-contact aerial refueling test.

The Russian military plans to re-engine its two-seat Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter.

Northrop designed the Vanguard architecture to support a shift to a modular approach that reuses the same software and hardware on a range of products spanning airborne, ground and surface platforms.

The U.S. Navy has picked a winner for its hotly contested, unmanned, carrier-based aircraft, but will the losers go away quietly?

Aeronautical researcher and engineering test pilot Robert Harper, co-developer of the Cooper-Harper pilot rating scale, died on Aug. 23.

An emerging architecture for a space-based sensor layer could use multiple types of observation tech to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles, U.S. defense officials say.

The German defense ministry has begun a radical restructuring of the country’s armed forces to better prepare it for modernization and an uptick in defense spending.

Lockheed Martin Corp. soon could start making wings for its F-16 fighter in India with the help of local partner Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL).

Northrop Grumman has revealed the details of a production-ready new radar called Vanguard that its Mission Systems division launched about five years ago.

Air Force National Guard Brig. Gen. Edward Vaughn was selected by the active duty component to aggressively respond to pilots’ reporting of physiological events.