U.S. Army

By Tony Osborne
Boeing is looking to advance the installation of an AESA radar onto the Apache, as the airframer and the U.S. Army seek to expand the rotorcraft’s situational awareness.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A top U.S. Army official named Anduril as a potential hypersonic weapons supplier on July 14.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has kicked off a competition to build an interceptor with a goal of testing within the next several months and possibly fielding it within a year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
As a first generation of hypersonic weapons in the U.S. nears fielding, the Pentagon has adopted a different set of goals than range and speed for the next.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Army plan to accelerate delivery of the first Bell MV-75 tiltrotor prototype came after a review identified increasing schedule risks, with the new plan potentially exacerbating the issue.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Thousands of drones and increased aircraft range are changing the airborne division’s tactics.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Collaborative combat R66; NASA open-fan demo; quantum heads to the field; and Sora’s subscale eVTOL bus.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s first division to get the Bell MV-75 Cheyenne II has been practicing with Bell’s MV-22 tiltrotor ahead of the fielding in the coming years.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Army plan to start early procurement of the Bell MV-75 might be slowed under new legislation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military was poised to respond to Iranian forces on June 9 following the downing of a U.S. Army attack helicopter and rescue mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army’s new Amazon.com-like website for drone acquisition is challenging industry business models and supply chains.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin said June 4 that it completed a final ground test of a U.S. Army surface-to-surface missile project before the government sent a stop-work order.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
New procurement plans for executive airlift and support bring opportunities for special mission providers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
A new Pentagon document shows the U.S. Army plans to cull its AH-64E fleet even as it retires all its AH-64Ds.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
TAMPA, Florida—U.S. Special Operations Command is urging the U.S. Army to continue with its effort to re-engine Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawks, with its own upgrade plan hinging on what happens with the GE Aerospace T901.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
In a rare move, U.S. military leaders are proactively reversing or reconsidering spending decisions made only two months ago.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Quantum sensing technology that a DARPA official described as the “end of stealth” is moving out the laboratory and into operational testing.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army’s top general said May 19 that the army also is reviewing proposed steep cuts for aviation procurement in fiscal 2027, following a separate review announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
SOCOM seeks long-range UAS with rapid deployment timeline for testing within months.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall, Brian Everstine
Business jets used to fly military VIPs. Now they are being pressed into front-line duty.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Contenders for a possible U.S. Army contract to build interceptor missiles at a cost of less than $1 million each need to be able to demonstrate the full system by the end of the fiscal year, the Army said on May 15.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Staff
Readers write about out-of-sequence U.S. military aircraft designations and NASA’s Artemis II mission. Plus: Behind the scenes at Unither.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

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Ocean Ships, Inc. has been awarded a $1,114,495,567 contract for the operation and maintenance of seven government-owned Oceanographic Survey vessels.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army on April 30 released a 3 1/2-year schedule for reselecting a supplier for the Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) Increment 4 program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
Rolls-Royce says endurance and altitude testing of the engines for the U.S. Army MV-75 Cheyenne II are due later this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion