Program Management

Visiting near-Earth objects with multiple smallsats is to serve as a pilot run for a shared mission.

Airbus delivered 67 commercial aircraft to 25 airlines and 13 lessors in September, about 2.2 aircraft per day, up 29% from August, and nearly returning the Toulouse-based manufacturer to its prolific 2.7 aircraft-per-day output of June and July.

Northrop Grumman plans to wrap up its first round of ISS cargo delivery missions for NASA with a year-long demonstration of its Cygnus freighter’s abilities.

Fears of rocket attacks and use of incendiary, explosive-carrying balloons is prompting new interest in laser defense systems by the Israeli defense ministry.

The Pentagon will finalize the Joint Strike Fighter acquisition strategy in a few weeks, and the service acquisition executives have signed the document.

Airbus and partners aim to stimulate tech development for sustainable lunar exploration and development with a new international competition called The Moon Race.

Transcend Air defines an approach to intercity air travel that combines schedule services with tiltwing VTOL aircraft.

Boeing has received the first installment of $2.38 billion the U.S. Air Force will spend on the Huey replacement effort.

L3 Technologies continues to invest in the unmanned maritime systems space, acquiring ASV Global, LLC, an unmanned surface vessel and autonomous vessel control systems company.

The additional funding allows ATEC and GE to keep a small number of engineers working over the next six months on minor improvements to their competing engine designs.

The U.S. faces an uphill battle for hypersonic supremacy, warns Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.

Rolls-Royce is completing development of a suite of modifications designed to resolve the reliability issues plaguing a large portion of the Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787 fleet and is confident the final changes will be cleared for introduction in the next few months.

Revised compressor blade design nears certification as Rolls uses flying testbed to validate durability of Trent 1000 with cracks still in place.

Lockheed's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared System will make up the first block of the missile warning constellation that will replace the current Space-based Infrared System.

Boeing’s upcoming decisions will be an indication of how it plans to curb the NMA’s life-cycle cost.

The agency is prioritizing discoveries that keep existing platforms lethal, even if an opponent has equivalent or superior technologies.

A look at some of the world’s up-and-coming positioning, navigation and timing constellations.

The DOD will begin having “consultations” with congressional leadership on establishing a unified space command, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.

The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.

Boeing will integrate the Lockheed Martin Legion Pod on U.S. Air Force F-15C fighters under a $208.3 million contract award from the service on Sept. 5.

Explore the shift to model-based engineering, the tools and technology available to support engineers, and the benefits to be seen in this white paper.

Here is a sampling of some of the major satellite missions being taken on by smallsats.

Tactical boost glide hypersonic developments accelerate as Pentagon ponders space-based surveillance and warning system.

Boeing is preparing the KC-46A tanker for the start of initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) in 2019.

Turkey threatens to look for allies elsewhere as it wrestles with unrest at home and spat with U.S. deepens.