Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASA’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion capsule programs, will face tougher standards for award fees as part of ongoing talks for current and future work on the deep-space human launch system.
Airbus is forecasting a need for 39,210 new passenger and cargo aircraft over the next 20 years, an increase of around 4% over its prediction a year ago.
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines has been testing the use of drone technology to inspect paint and structural damage on its fleet of 36 Airbus A320 family aircraft.
Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is developing a an algorithm to eliminate imperfections in carbon fiber composites for materials used in the production of propellant tanks and other spacecraft components.
Six weeks after deciding not to submit an independent proposal to the U.S. Air Force, Boeing has opened discussions with Northrop Grumman to create a combined team to win the $85 billion Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program.
A coalition of 28 environmental and public-health groups is protesting FAA’s push to provide regulatory relief for the civil supersonic aircraft industry.
Airbus has extended a contract to include the T3CAS integrated surveillance system as a standard, line-fit system on A320-family airliners, supplier ACSS announced Aug. 26.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has canceled the Redesigned Kill Vehicle subsystem and will kick off a competition for a new, next-generation interceptor.
NASA has issued a request for proposals from U.S. companies capable of carrying out up to $7 billion in re-supply missions to its planned lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Bell has secured its single-engine Instrument Flight Rules spurs for its Model 407GXi helicopter, paving the way for the aircraft to compete in the U.S. Navy’s rotary-wing trainer competition.
The inevitable spike in capacity when the Boeing 737 MAX returns to service will be absorbed by a combination of demand and more retirements, analysts at Canaccord Genuity conclude.
The DOD is conducting a “zero-based review” of all department functions and activities to identify time, money and manpower funding that can be reallocated to its high priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.
Boeing may temporarily pause its 737 MAX production line if circumstances continue to delay the narrowbody’s return, the company’s chief executive said July 24.
The U.S. government will compensate F-35 suppliers for any financial costs caused by the expulsion of Turkey from the program, a Lockheed Martin executive says.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) says the upcoming launch of a Delta IV rocket with a GPS III satellite will be retargeted for no earlier than Aug. 22 to allow time for technicians to replace and retest a faulty component in the booster’s upper stages.
“The committee denies the proposed $15 million increase to SDA Space Technology Development in its entirety,” HASC leaders wrote in a July 3 letter to Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist obtained by Aerospace DAILY.
United Airlines has removed its Boeing 737 MAXs from its schedule through Nov. 3—a move United projects will result in 5,000 flight cancellations in September and October.
The British defense ministry is widening the scope of its directed energy weapons research with plans for three new demonstrators to help accelerate the introduction of the technology to the front line.
