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By Lee Hudson
Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned April 7 after a recording revealed that Modley called the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s fired captain “naïve or stupid.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Technology that enabled a manned helicopter to be converted into an autonomous cargo resupply vehicle has been scaled down and tested in a small unmanned logistics aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army’s future aviation fleet could fly with a newly-developed electronic countermeasure suite.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Howmet Aerospace, formerly the aviation and defense-focused assets under the Arconic brand, said April 6 it will work to save about $100 million in costs as its OEM customers halt production of large commercial aircraft due to COVID-19 fallout.
Marketplace

By Mark Carreau
The last of the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsules launched to the International Space Station (ISS) under an initial round of NASA commercial resupply contracts returned to Earth on April 7.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Discovered on Dec. 28, 2019, the puffy greenish Comet Atlas C/2019 Y4 rapidly brightened in the northern night sky near the Big Dipper as it raced toward the Sun.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The first aircraft carrier equipped to embark an F-35C, the USS Carl Vinson, completed its 14-month maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (IMF) in Washington state, a hot spot for the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has joined a chorus of Democrats calling for the removal of Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly over remarks to sailors on the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt that referred to the fired captain of that aircraft carrier as “naive or stupid.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Boeing says it will fly a second uncrewed flight test of its CST-100 Starliner, following a troubled orbital debut in December.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Japanese startup SkyDrive has conducted manned flights of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has published its first view of how the use and control of drones in an urban environment could be regulated, presenting an opinion to the European Commission that sets out how drones could co-exist with current airspace users.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Selected U.S. military contracts for March 30 U.S. NAVY The Boeing Co., Seattle, has been awarded a $1,554,398,639 modification (P000170) to a
Defense

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Responding to a congressional directive, the FAA has proposed noise certification regulations for new supersonic aircraft. The proposed rules cover

By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales has committed to providing $106 million in accelerated payments to suppliers, up from $53 million it promised March 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
S7 Space Corp. has completed the relocation of the Sea Launch complex from Long Beach, California, to Russia’s Far East.
Space Symposium

By Graham Warwick
The first proposed guidelines to ensure the safety of machine-learning systems in aircraft has resulted from a joint study by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Swiss artificial-intelligence (AI) startup Deadalean.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The UK has formally restored its fixed-wing submarine-hunting capabilities after the Royal Air Force declared its new Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers operational.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bradley Perrett
Subaru will set up a unit to develop technology for Japan’s Next Generation Fighter, anticipating a role in a program for which Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is the presumptive prime contractor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Boeing has delivered the first of 14 new-build CH-47F Chinooks to the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is reviving its stylized “worm” logo, the popular version of the acronym for the agency’s full name that was retired in 1992 following a 17-year run.
Space Symposium

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems says it sees “significant disruptions” to trading in the second quarter as governments tackle the impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Budget, Policy & Operations