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By Lee Hudson
Lawmakers are becoming more stringent with how the Pentagon can spend future funding, included on the services’ unfunded requirements list, according to a joint explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Congress is allowing the U.S. Air Force to say farewell to 17 B-1Bs and the RQ-4 Block 20 fleet, but is blocking the retirement of KC-135s, KC-10s and A-10s in the latest fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The latest challenge from Raytheon again risks delaying the schedule for fielding the first tranche of the SDA’s Tracking Layer of missile-warning satellites in low Earth orbit, but agency officials say the program remains on track.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Despite the U.S. Air Force demonstrating earlier this month how a piece of the Advanced Battle Management System might work, the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations compromise bill would drastically reduce the program’s funding.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The Space Launch System’s Exploration Upper Stage that is to support NASA’s Artemis initiative goal of establishing a permanent human presence at the Moon has cleared the Critical Design Review phase of its development.
Space

By Graham Warwick
UK start-up Faradair Aerospace has partnered with Honeywell and MagniX on development of its multirole Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft, designed to carry 18 passengers or three LD3 cargo containers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian military has placed its first order for 10 re-engined Ilyushin Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
In an ignominious end for the fleet, the five Sentinels “are not for reuse” the defense ministry stated, as it called for expressions of interest in the disposal of the radar reconnaissance platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Competitors wasted little time taking advantage of the U.S. Commerce Department announcement that it had added Chinese drone manufacturer DJI to its export blacklist.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billion cash takeover of aerospace and defense propulsion stalwart Aerojet Rocketdyne–already a key supplier–fits well within Lockheed and will secure the Pentagon’s leading contractor as a hypersonics, rocket and military space leader for decades to come.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
Easy Aerial and the U.S. Air Force’s 60th Security Forces Sqdn. started the first automated drone-based perimeter security and monitoring system for a U.S. Air Force installation, Travis AFB in California, on Dec. 11.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Passage of the $696 billion spending bill for fiscal 2021 completes the final appropriations cycle of the Trump administration with a slight uptick in funding for the DOD alone, which received $693.3 billion in fiscal 2020.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
With both the platforms and weapons for the future nuclear enterprise set, the U.S. Navy and Air Force are now plotting the future of the airborne command and control systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and prime contractor Boeing are probing the premature shutdown of a simulated countdown sequence during the Dec. 20 Wet Dress Rehearsal for the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Jaunt Air Mobility has signed a memorandum of understanding with propulsion developer VerdeGo Aero to study a hybrid-electric version of Jaunt’s planned Journey urban air taxi.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Nanoracks’ commercial airlock, which was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month aboard the first launch of SpaceX’s upgraded cargo version of the Dragon capsule, has been successfully removed from the freighter’s unpressurized trunk and berthed to the port side of the orbital outpost’s U.S. segment Tranquility module.
Space

By Guy Norris
The missile forms a critical element of the Pentagon’s fast-track plan to develop a range of high-speed stand-off strike and cruise weapons to counter new Chinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX’s second mission for the NRO lifted off at 9 a.m. EST Dec. 19 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Irene Klotz
The launch of 36 OneWeb satellites follows the company's emergence from bankruptcy.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris a $496 million contract to launch the four-year engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the NGJ-LB program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Epirus, a startup building high-power microwave (HPM) applications for UAV deployment, closed a $70 million funding round that included an investment by L3Harris Technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A small team at Hanscom AFB developed a new way to transmit video from the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to a ground-based terminal.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
The “Space Prime” office would provide military certification for satellite payload replenishment, on-orbit refueling and other new-space advances.
Space

By Bill Carey
The U.S. Commerce Department on Dec. 18 added 77 mostly Chinese companies, including small drone manufacturer DJI, to its Entity List of companies subject to export restrictions “for actions deemed contrary” to U.S. interests.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

South Korea's defense acquisition agency may opt for a private prime contractor and promote the effort as an international joint development project.
Missile Defense & Weapons