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Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has partnered with Pyka to offer the startup’s electric uncrewed cargo aircraft to U.S. Defense Department customers.

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

Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.

The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a major sustainment contract for its future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) fleet.

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.

Reengining the C-17 and adding low-cost connectivity upgrades emerge as top priorities for Air Mobility Command.

Ahead of an expected major award for a new fleet, delays hit prototypes that had been expected to be fielded in January 2024.

The U.S. Army on Jan. 3 announced it ordered one Bombardier Global 6500, with options for two more.

NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.

A potential mandatory cut in addition to ongoing continuing resolutions have military officials blasting congressional inaction on Pentagon plans.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has won the latest prototype award, facing off against a team led by L3Harris Technologies.

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

The U.S. Army has selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to provide two contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.

Private midtier bets that its post-production modification and communications expertise could give it a shot over defense giants and OEMs.

Leonardo UK and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Leonardo Electronics US, signed a memorandum of understanding with SNC.

The U.S. Army has moved into the second phase of a competition to build the next tactical-sized uncrewed aircraft system with four competitors.

A second Great Observatory catches the eye of the fledgling in-space services industry.

The U.S. Army is setting the requirements and looking to release a request soon for the second phase of the high-altitude ISR prototype program.

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s new, small fleet of future contractor-owned, contractor-operated surveillance jets is taking shape.

Balloon industry says it can survey the Earth better than satellites and for less cost.

Stratospheric balloon operator World View will aim to become a publicly listed company via a reverse-merger deal with Leo Holdings Corp. II.

Dream Chaser spaceplane tests in 2023 mark first operational steps toward development of Sierra Space’s orbital ecosystem.

The owners of aerospace and defense group Sierra Nevada are creating an independent company to take over the former’s space business, to be called Sierra Space, which will sell to the burgeoning low-Earth-orbit and Moon commercial space markets.

Just over a week after NASA outlined renewed plans to foster the development of U.S. commercial low Earth orbit free flyers to succeed the International Space Station, Sierra Nevada Corp. has unveiled ambitious plans to develop an orbital ecosystem based on its inflatable habitat design and Dream Chaser lifting body space vehicle.