MilitaryContinuing Resolutions Have Cost Billions In Inefficiency For DOD With the U.S. debt sitting over $20 trillion and the Defense Department on the Government Accountability Office’s annual "high-risk list", efficient use of money is wise. “About $4 billion burned in a…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Successfully Tests Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Lockheed Martin successfully tested a production-configuration long-range anti-ship missile (LRASM) from a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber. This marked the LRASM's sixth successful test. During the test, a B-1B from the 337th…
MilitaryF-35 Costs a Continuing Concern at US Congressional Hearing The U.S. “can’t risk the F-35 program being like the F-22 program,” declared Chairman Mike Turner of Ohio, referring to another Lockheed Martin fighter project that became synonymous with cost overruns and…
MilitaryBoeing to Refresh Super Hornets for US Navy The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a contract worth up to $73 million to modernize the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The refresh is expected to add 50% to the fighter’s flight hours, from…
MilitaryGeneral Atomics Opens Up About its MQ-25 Submission General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has revealed information on its entry to the U.S. Navy’s call for submissions for an MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial tanker, including a plethora of partnerships. GA-ASI…
MilitaryAirbus Can Focus on Avionics Tests as NH90 Prototype 2 Takes Off Airbus Helicopters is “convinced” it can deliver NHIndustries NH90 Sea Lions to the German Navy on schedule. The program has a “demanding timetable,” Airbus said, but the second prototype just reached a…
MilitaryNavair Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor Onboard Drone A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor has successfully completed testing onboard a Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. TigerShark unmanned aircraft system (UAS), Logos Technologies said. The test of the company’s Redkite sensor was…
MilitaryGPS-Based Precision Landing Can Help US Navy Drones, Fighters The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been designed to land itself, using Raytheon’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS), Raytheon said. The Navy hopes to use the MQ-25…