Senators want a U.S. Space Force program executive office to manage the acquisition of satellites that can track both air and ground moving targets from orbit.
When it comes to speed and payload, there is a large gap in the transport network between the capacities of fixed-wing aircraft and ships, trucks and trains.
Out of 48 proposals for less-expensive, faster options for returning samples from Mars, NASA selected seven ideas from companies for 90-day study contracts.
Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to use the company’s AI software to speed up development of the defense prime’s “most advanced systems.”
The U.S. Air Force will not repair and instead will divest one B-2 stealth bomber that was damaged in a ground accident, shrinking an already small fleet.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency seeks to field an “interim capability” against hypersonic glide vehicles by 2029 as the Glide Phase Interceptor slides to 2035.
About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.
Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.
