Engineers developing the Bell [TXT] Nexus air taxi are helping drive innovations that may lead to hybrid electric military air vehicles in the near term and all electric military air vehicles further down the line, Bell CEO Mitch Snyder said on Aug. 1. While companies’ defense and commercial ...

DIU Space Station? The Pentagon’s experimental technology unit is seeking industry input for an “Orbital Outpost” program that would look to build a mini space station to test autonomous and robotic capabilities. While DIU’s request for “solution brief” calls for a small capability that� ...

The still-experimental VH-92 Presidential Helicopter will make its first official public appearance during President Trump’s July Fourth extravaganza, according to multiple reports. Several of the Sikorsky-built aircraft are in flight test at Naval Station Patuxent River in Maryland, south of ...

PARIS AIR SHOW—Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] signed a teaming agreement here on June 18 to build hypersonic weapons under the $200 million Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force. The ...

PARIS AIR SHOW–U.S. officials have raised the possibility of blocking European defense companies from U.S. competitions, if the European Union does not relax the proposed rules of the $14 billion European Defense Fund (EDF) and Permanent Structured Competition (PESCO)–an initiative to ...

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky [LMT] has received a $542 million Navy contract to build six low-rate initial production VH-92A presidential helicopters as part of the Marine Corps’ plan for 23 aircraft to replace the current White House transport fleet of VH-3D “Marine One” Sea ...