Budget, Policy & Operations

The KC-46’s new remote vision system will not be operational until October 2025, a 19-month delay from the previous plan as the U.S. Air Force and Boeing negotiate subcontractor development timelines as well as both service and FAA airworthiness processes.

The transformation of the Army’s fixed-wing intelligence fleet is about to transition from the experimental to the acquisition phase.

Ready or not, the next era of space exploration is upon us. The Moon and Mars are calling, and through advancements in key technology the means exist

Parker Hannifin has plenty of opportunity to change and improve Meggitt operations while still upholding promises Parker made to the UK government to sustain core Meggitt operations in the country, Parker leaders told Aviation Week.

The U.S., Japan and South Korea are responding to increased tensions following multiple North Korean ballistic missile launches this week with a series of air drills and missile defense exercises in the region.

The Nordic country follows a growing trend of European nations strengthening their defense budgets to reflect the new regional security situation.

The U.S. Army and defense industry is eagerly awaiting the outcome of an extended bidding war for a long-range, high-speed rotorcraft.

The U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based, autonomous refueling aircraft has had “growing pains,” a Boeing executive says, as the production phase begins.

The U.S. Air Force wants to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2046 and is looking to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuel, more electric vehicles and the quick development and testing of a blended wing body mobility aircraft by 2027 to help get there.

The arrangements will lead to the creation of a working group that will examine if the UK and Polish armed forces could cooperate on the so-called Future Common Missile.

A South Korean lawmaker says that the Republic of Korea Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-35As were classified as “operationally unready” on 234 times over an 18-month period ending in June.

As the European Commission and ESA rally to support reusability concepts, research and technology projects slip to the right.

SLS debut launch is scuttled by an approaching hurricane.

The action comes despite recent market turmoil that plunged the pound to near parity with the U.S. dollar.

For aid to Ukraine, the industry has struggled to ramp up production despite Pentagon funding.

A baseline estimate released on Sept. 30 by the F-35 Joint Program Office proposes a sharp drop in new orders for the single-engine stealth fighter in production lots beyond Lot 17.

The sailing of the long-delayed aircraft carrier is a trial run ahead of its 2023 operational deployment.

Senior U.S. Air Force leaders in recent days have weighed in on China’s advancements in its fighter force, criticizing Beijing’s technical prowess but offering some praise for its inventiveness ahead of the upcoming 20th National Congress and the Zhuhai air show.

The Spanish Defense Ministry has awarded local industry with contracts to investigate “possible evolutions of the challenges of national defense, the air domain, and will detail possible solutions to face them.”

The Osprey’s flight crew had made an emergency landing after the 15th confirmed case of a slipped slag clutch inside the tiltrotor's engine nacelle.

U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.

European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.

Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.

All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.

Ground-launched Brimstones have been successful against Russian tanks in Ukraine; MBDA hopes the success attracts the British Army, too.