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Mar 18, 2024
The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry for multiple categories of propulsion to power future tankers.
Dec 19, 2023
The new Contested Logistics System-300 Nautical Miles (CLS-300) will enter propulsion tests before June and flight tests by the end of 2024, the company said.

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Aircraft & Propulsion

Mar 18, 2024
The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry for multiple categories of propulsion to power future tankers.
Mar 18, 2024
European industry could fly a rotorcraft technology demonstrator for a future military helicopter in the next phase of a European Union (EU)-funded research activity.
Mar 15, 2024
Spirit AeroSystems will build and test a large, experimental wing to support high-speed aircraft applications under a new DARPA program.
Mar 15, 2024
Swiss commanders have outlined plans to retire the Northrop F-5 Tiger combat aircraft in 2027, bringing to an end its famous international aerobatic team, the Patrouille Suisse.
Mar 15, 2024
Japanese lawmakers will revise the country’s arms export restrictions, a key step to enable the export of the trilateral GCAP.

Space

Mar 19, 2024
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet cosmonauts, has died.
Mar 18, 2024
The launch will be part of Ariane 6’s development and remain under the ESA’s responsibility.
Mar 18, 2024
Tournear says while the test did successfully transmit data, transmissions were only successful about half of the time.
Mar 18, 2024
NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.
Mar 15, 2024
NASA must establish a more integrated, top-down management approach to its supercomputing assets, an agency IG report says.

Missile Defense & Weapons

Mar 18, 2024
European Union and national government investments in Norway’s missile and ammunition industries are being focused on building increased production capacity.
Mar 18, 2024
A new kind of hypersonic vehicle could infiltrate an enemy’s most defended area, strike a target and then return to base to fight another day.
Mar 18, 2024
The announcement means Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman will be selected two years early for the next intercontinental ballistic missile-class interceptor.
Mar 15, 2024
A company-led test at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah in September demonstrated the armed, propeller-driven Altius-700M striking a tracked armored vehicle.
Mar 14, 2024
Denmark is to acquire new ground-based air defense systems and create an anti-submarine warfare capability as part of a buildup of the country’s armed forces.

Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Mar 08, 2024
The announcements came during a visit by Defense Minister Bill Blair to CFB Trenton, the main operating base for the CE-145C Vigilance and a hub for CC-330s.
Mar 07, 2024
A new U.S. Army cross-functional team will be created to usher in a new stratospheric layer of aerial sensing platforms.
Mar 06, 2024
Palantir will build 10 prototypes of the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground stations.
Mar 04, 2024
Emirati defense group Edge has teamed with Spain’s Indra to create a “major industry player” in the development and production of radar systems in the UAE.
Feb 20, 2024
The members of the North Atlantic Council have jointly agreed to a report by national armament directors from NATO countries.

Supply chain

Mar 13, 2024
A U.S. startup promising to drastically cut the time required for engineering design and analysis by providing cloud-based access to massive computing power.
Mar 12, 2024
The Pentagon is stepping up efforts to develop a domestic rare earths supply chain for the permanent magnets used in key defense systems.
Mar 06, 2024
Engineered parts provider Barnes Group has settled with an activist hedge fund and will change its board of directors.
Mar 05, 2024
The plan also includes the creation of a European Defense Industry Program.
Mar 04, 2024
A Boeing acquisition of all or part of Spirit AeroSystems could be, if consummated, a surprise coup for the former’s defense business.

Budget, Policy & Operations

Mar 18, 2024
The Pentagon appears to have reached peak spending and will have to determine how to meet its strategic objectives through redistribution and reprioritization
Mar 15, 2024
While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.
Mar 15, 2024
France has become the world’s second-largest arms exporter after sales by Russia plummeted in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mar 15, 2024
Japanese lawmakers will revise the country’s arms export restrictions, a key step to enable the export of the trilateral GCAP.
Mar 14, 2024
The venerable C-130’s cargo capacity, lower speed threshold and commonality across the region make it ideal for relief operations over the Gaza Strip.