CommercialBoeing Buys Millenium Space Systems for SmallSat Solutions Boeing, which filed with government regulators in 2016 for a potential network of thousands of small satellites to provide global Internet access, has agreed to acquire Millenium Space Systems, a developer and…
CommercialL3 Forms ISR Segment out of Aerospace and Sensor Systems After Q2 L3 is consolidating its Aerospace Systems and Sensors Systems business segments into one focused on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) solutions for customers worldwide. The new Texas-based ISR Systems segment supplies sensor…
MilitaryDOD Focused on Beating Russia, China in Hypersonics The Pentagon’s effort to build hypersonic weapons by the early 2020s and ahead of near-peer competitors will require the services to be more direct with their industry partners to make improved use…
MilitarySenate Wants More Oversight of F-35 Sustainment Costs The U.S. Senate has approved a proposal that would require the Pentagon to regularly brief lawmakers on efforts to contain sustainment costs for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The measure would require…
MilitaryUS Customs Wants New Early Warning Radar for P-3 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week issued a request for information to industry for market research on new airborne early warning (AEW) radar for some of its P-3 surveillance aircraft typically flown…
MilitaryF-35 Development Contract Pushed Back The U.S. Department of Defense plans to award a major follow-on development contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in June 2019, about 10 months later than previously planned, according to a…
MilitaryF-15 on the Cusp of Overdue Upgrade to Digital Defense System The Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS), which is intended to improve the ability of U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets to detect and counter air and ground threats, is on track…
MilitaryUS Navy Sinks Unmanned Systems Office, Rethinks Approach The U.S. Navy has disestablished the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems (DASN UxS) a mere two and a half years after standing it up in October 2015. Assistant…
MilitaryNew No-Drone Zones Hone DOD Counter-UAS Authority Responding to a request to enhance unmanned aircraft flight restrictions over military bases, the FAA recently made the airspace over three new U.S. Defense Department facilities no-drone zones and extended the restricted…
MilitaryUS Air Force Studying F-35 Management In Preparation for JPO's Dissolution The U.S. Air Force is exploring how it will oversee its share of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program in light of the U.S. Defense Department’s recent decision to give the military…