Air Force

By the end of the summer, GE Aerospace [GE] plans to conduct a full-scale test in Evendale, Ohio of the company’s dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) hypersonic engine with rotating detonation combustion (RDC) […]

The Navy on June 2 awarded RTX [RTX] a $1.1 billion modification award exercising options to production and delivery of many more AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder Air-To-Air Missiles in Lot […]

EVENDALE, Ohio—GE Aerospace [GE] is expanding its work with Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] on low-cost, small turbofan engines, announcing plans to develop a new 1,500-pound thrust capability aimed […]

More than 100 small quadcopter kamikaze drones hidden in trucks took off on cue on Sunday to destroy dozens of Russian Tupolev strategic bombers inside Russia. Ukraine’s Pavutina–“Spider Web”–operation points […]

ELKTON, Md.—Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] propulsion systems and control (PS&C) business expects to build 440 solid rocket motors (SRMs) here annually by 2027–up from the current 90–as part of a $100 […]

The Department of the Air Force did not include disruption to operations as a factor in its decision criteria for choosing a permanent base for U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM). Pres. […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (USSF SSC) is exploring the possible lease of commercial small and medium satellites able to maneuver in geosynchronous orbit to detect threats and speed […]

U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Littleton, Colo., site a more than $509 million contract for Global Positioning System Follow-On (GPS IIIF) satellites 21 […]

Congress is awaiting the arrival of a fiscal 2026 National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) budget request that may slice $300 million to $400 million for commercial imagery out of a $1 […]

China’s development of “high ground” space systems, including anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, that can reach geosynchronous orbit 23,000 miles above Earth is a concern for the U.S. Space Force (USSF). “The […]