Program Management

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.

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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.

The emerging technology of Generative Design, especially Topology Optimization, is gaining interest in product development communities. Product development teams face numerous challenges when it comes to modern product design.

Stratolaunch Systems rolled out its giant twin-fuselage, air-launch rocket carrier aircraft in California for more preflight tests on Aug 3.

Combining Japan’s aircraft-building businesses would save engineering, equipment and marketing costs, MHI says. Management expenses might be reduced, too.

Gulfstream Aerospace said its G600 business jet has begun FAA certification field performance testing.

Boeing is storing up to 40 unfinished aircraft on a taxiway at Renton, Washington, airport, which puts limits on Runway 16/34.

The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.

The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.

Cumulative problems with late and incomplete fuselages, a shortage of skilled mechanics and the late arrival of CFM engines are continuing to cause production problems for Boeing’s 737, deliveries of which are not expected to recover until the end of the year, the company said.