President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy prioritizes sustaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal and building up capability in missile defense, space and cyberspace....More
Stratolaunch Systems successfully conducted the first taxi tests of the company’s enormous six-engine, air-launch rocket carrier aircraft on Dec 17....More
Bell Helicopter’s third-generation tiltrotor prototype, the V-280 Valor, achieved first flight at the company’s plant in Amarillo, Texas, on Dec. 18....More
The Swedish government has signed a $47.5 million contract with Saab to ensure that more of the country’s new fleet of Gripen E fighters are new-build aircraft....More
British parliamentarians say a lack of transparency over costs and a poor response to media reports could undermine confidence in the UK’s purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter....More
BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have test flown a UAV demo that uses wing circulation control and fluidic thrust vectoring for flight control....More
The International Space Station received new opportunities to display its versatility as an orbiting testbed early Dec. 17, with the berthing of SpaceX's 13th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply vessel and 4,800 lb. of crew supplies, science experiments and technology demonstrations....More
ULTRA Electronics Advanced Tactical Systems Inc., Austin, Texas, is being awarded a $26,328,344 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, commercial, firm-fixed-price contract (N6523618D1002)....More
