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The latest test phase was divided into six main stages—or “decks”—to verify engine and systems performance.

A new kind of air vehicle is entering the U.S. military arsenal, capable of performing several roles including strike, reconnaissance and target decoy duties.

The SDA is embroiled in a lawsuit related to two contracts worth $424 million each, awarded last Aug. 16 to York Space Systems and Tyvak International.

“I need additional supply chains. I need additional manufacturing sites,” Lockheed Martin's Tim Cahill says here in Abu Dhabi.

After losing the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft and scout programs, Sikorsky is pinning its development hopes on two competitions.

The risk of financial losses on a classified aeronautics program is “pretty well contained” after a fourth-quarter charge, says Lockheed Martin's CFO.

Apollo 17's commander once called the dust “probably one of our greatest inhibitors to a nominal operation on the Moon.”

Researchers appeal for new aerial gunnery requirements to unlock development of hypersonic ammunition.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

A joint effort between Lockheed Martin Australia and the University of New South Wales is underway to develop a hypersonic flight testbed.

The Denver-based company’s sales rose 36% annually to $828 million in the fourth quarter while adjusted earnings per share reached $0.14.

The company plans to hand over the second Orion spacecraft to the agency in April.

The Trident IID5LE2 is expected to enter service in the 2030s on Columbia-class and future Royal Navy submarines as a virtually new long-range ballistic missile.

The Bethesda, Maryland-based company reported a $1.3 billion reach-forward loss on a classified program within the Missiles & Fire Control (M&FC) business.

Lockheed Martin is preparing to ship its newly completed Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center for its planned launch next month to map water deposits on the Moon.

The agency released a draft solicitation dated Jan. 22 related to the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Saudi Arabia is the second nation to express interest in ordering Turkey’s Kaan fighter after Azerbaijan made similar overtures last year.

DARPA and NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion project will miss its scheduled 2027 testing time frame, as its development has proven trickier than anticipated.

With the potential revival of an F-35 sale to Morocco, the Lockheed Martin program could be in for an exciting 24 months.

The connection took place Dec. 18 and is the only optical link attempted thus far, an SDA spokesperson said in a Jan. 15 email.

Major U.S. defense contractors are reportedly in talks with the owner of a large mine in Greenland to source critical minerals, Reuters said in a Jan. 9 report.

LRASM is already integrated on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1B Lancer and the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

The latest totals mean that historical F-35 deliveries now exceed 1,100 production aircraft over a 15-year span.

Artificial intelligence shows great promise, but safety and ethical considerations are a major challenge in aerospace.

Quantum entanglement is perhaps a fitting metaphor for the NGAD Platform.