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By Tony Osborne
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has outlined plans to raise Spain’s defense spending to 2% of GDP.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s second-ever Carrier Strike Group with Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers has set sail for the Asia-Pacific region.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Anna Sliwon-Stewart
Recent Peruvian Air Force shifts in recapitalization plans reflect the service’s effort to balance long-term modernization with immediate operational needs, emphasizing combat effectiveness and national emergency response as top priorities.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center has signed an MOU with France’s Space Command on global space security.
Operations & Safety

By Michael Bruno
Super Tier 1 suppliers are dusting off their pandemic playbooks over cost escalations during that crisis in order to manage the next wave of challenges.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin will not protest Boeing’s victory in the competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next fighter.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
DARPA is soliciting a lunar orbiter capable of flying in the Moon’s unstable low orbit.
Space Exploration

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman is continuing to eat cost overruns on the initial production of its B-21 Raider and is changing its manufacturing process.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea launched the fourth of its five military satellites into space on April 22.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The African Space Agency became operational on April 20.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
Edge Group is seeking to win business for its HT-100 uncrewed helicopter system in Brazil.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
German startup ATMOS Space Cargo is assessing what changes it may make to its cargo return system due to fly next year after the first test of the Phoenix.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Boeing has divested Jeppesen, ForeFlight, AerData and OzRunways to software-focused private equity investor Thoma Bravo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX's 32nd Cargo Dragon spacecraft successfully docked autonomously to the seven-person International Space Station early April 22.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
The European Union wants to broaden the scope of some technology research funding efforts as part of its push to bolster the region’s defense industrial base.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman lost an extra $477 million on early B-21 production, raising red ink on the first five annual lots of fixed-price contracts to over $2 billion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Startup Beehive Industries is on track to start ground tests of its additively manufactured Frenzy engine next month, ahead of planned altitude tests with AFRL.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
DARPA launched a program on April 17 to develop a new solid rocket motor with a burn surface area that can be altered after manufacturing.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office successfully launched the intelligence agency’s NROL-145 mission on April 20.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket early April 21, loaded with extra supplies for the International Space Station crew.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
Electra.aero has secured $115 million Series B funding to move the EL9 aircraft into the pre-production and certification phase.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
The coming defense earnings season that effectively kicks off April 22 is expected to be somewhat underwhelming.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Lucy, NASA's mission to explore an asteroid family known as Trojans that accompany Jupiter, made its second close approach to a main-belt asteroid.
Space Exploration

By Chen Chuanren
The AVIC AG600 has attained type-certification from the CAAC; at a MTOW of 60 tons, it is the world’s largest commercial amphibian aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation