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By Graham Warwick
Japanese suborbital spaceflight startup PD AeroSpace plans to fly the latest in a series of the subscale company’s first suborbital test vehicles.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The strategy aims to correct a longstanding problem for the Pentagon—that its communication networks use thousands of disparate terminals that are not compatible with each other.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps now is pursuing an unmanned family of systems for its Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft Expeditionary (MUX) effort.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Marine Corps is joining the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to accelerate commercial development eVTOL vehicles, with a view to using them for logistics.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The F-15 fleet is expected to enter qualifications by the end of 2021, to be followed by the F-16, F-22, A-10 and B-1.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Boeing has started delivering a new version of the Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kit with improved resistance to GPS jamming.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Thierry Dubois
Record deliveries of the Rafale fighter helped Dassault Aviation’s revenues reach unprecedented heights last year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Startup vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is poised to start flight tests of a revised scaled version of its tiltwing Vy 400 intercity transport vehicle
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Russian private military company used a “sophisticated Russian air defense system,” according to U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Stephen Townsend's testimony to the HASC.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Battery thermal-management company Kulr Technology Group has developed a design for lithium-ion batteries that prevents cell-to-cell propagation of a thermal runaway.
Emerging Technologies

By Lee Hudson
“Soon we will release an inaugural doctrine” for the Space Force, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said March 10 in Washington.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Finnair will work with Finnish oil company Neste to increase the airline’s use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and boost production capacity in Finland.
Sustainability

By Jen DiMascio
Rocket Lab will launch its second mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office during a 14-day launch window that opens March 27.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Russian aerohydrodynamic institute TsAGI has completed a new series of wind-tunnel tests on a low-drag, low-noise concept for a short-range airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force has a new launch goal, dubbed “Set the Pace for Space,” which aims to make launch on demand available for commercial and military customers.
Space

By Tony Osborne
MBDA says it has completed the first qualification firing trial of its Anglo-French Sea Venom/Anti-Navire Leger anti-ship missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris
Boeing has asked co-workers of an employee at its Everett facility who tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus to stay at home and self-monitor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

The American Astronautical Society’s annual Goddard Symposium, which was set for next week, has been postponed due to recent cases of COVID-19 in

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
"Ames Research Center is temporarily on mandatory telework status with restricted access to the center until further notice,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said March 9.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Sikorsky has sent CH-53K King Stallion training devices to a U.S. Marine Corps base in preparation for receiving students to learn how to fly and repair the heavy-lift helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
BWX Technologies, Westinghouse Government Services and X-energy each received contracts to start a two-year design phase under Project Pele.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Thanks to an emerging global geostationary satellite alliance among NASA, ESA and South Korea, experts will be able to obtain hourly measurements of atmospheric pollutants.
Space