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By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon will launch a Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program and build out its command-and-control system as part of a budget request that seeks $20.3 billion for “Missile Defeat and Defense activities.”
Defense

By Mark Carreau
President Trump’s proposed 12% boost in overall NASA spending for fiscal 2021 includes a roughly proportional decline in science spending.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Artemis initiative to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface in 2024 is expected to cost about $35 billion going forward, Douglas Loverro, NASA’s new associate administrator for human exploration and operations, told a Feb. 10 news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Collins Aerospace has named Stephen Timm as president in place of Kelly Ortberg, who is leaving his CEO’s role to become a special advisor to the chief executive of United Technologies Corp. as it merges with Raytheon.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.
Defense

By Sean Broderick
Iran’s initial formal investigative update on the Jan. 8 downing of a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 sheds little new information on the disaster and stops short of confirming what its government has admitted: anti-aircraft missiles fired at the aircraft, seemingly in error, brought it down.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Defense Department plans to increase spending on hypersonic offensive and defensive capabilities in fiscal 2021.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department (DOD) plans to acquire five light-attack aircraft in fiscal 2021 to support the Special Operations Command’s newly launched Armed Overwatch program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
NASA has substantially increased funding requested for aeronautics research in fiscal 2021 over the spending level envisioned a year ago.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps is halving its planned 2021 buy of F-35Bs to 10 jets, while the Navy is purchasing three fewer F-35Cs than in the previous year’s budget projection.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Boeing's jet-powered MQ-25 will embark on aircraft carriers “to conduct aerial refueling as a primary mission and provide some ISR capability as a secondary mission,” according to fiscal 2021 Navy budget documents.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Austria has stepped into the controversy surrounding the Airbus bribery case after documents confirmed unfair conduct in the sale of Eurofighter jets there.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The biggest change is in procurement of the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk, which is reduced as planned to 36 aircraft from 74 in 2020.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
President Donald Trump is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, a whopping 12% budget increase in an attempt to bankroll a fast-track mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Croatia hopes to make a decision on the procurement of a new fighter aircraft before year’s end, defense officials say.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett, Guy Norris
Boeing plans for the Airpower Teaming System drone to fly for the first time this year, aiming at the global defense market, with Australia as the potential launch customer.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The rescheduled launch of Northrop Grumman’s 13th Cygnus re-supply mission to the International Space Station now is planned for no earlier than Feb. 13 at 4:06 p.m. EST.
Defense

By Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force’s latest five-year budget plan retires significant numbers of RQ-4s, B-1s, KC-10s and non-stealthy fighters and eliminates funding
Defense

The release of the White House fiscal 2021 budget request is scheduled for this coming Monday, Feb. 10. To allow us to bring you comprehensive

By Tony Osborne
The British Maritime and Coastguard Agency has inducted a pair of Beechcraft King Air 200 turboprop aircraft to support its search-and-rescue, fisheries and pollution detection missions.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

By Irene Klotz
NASA and Boeing will review all 1 million lines of code following errors found during the CST-100 Starliner's troubled uncrewed orbital flight demonstration mission in December.
Defense

Calendar of upcoming events of interest to the aerospace & defense industry.

By Michael Bruno
Canadian pilot training specialist CAE expects increasing demand for its simulators for Boeing 737 MAX and continues to make so-called “white tail” systems ahead of actual orders.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
From the rise and fall of research dollars to signs of a successful reorganization of space acquisitions, experts at the Center for Strategic and
Defense