The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to use a Bell-made unmanned tiltrotor aircraft for efforts to protect naval ships, according to officials, Military.com reported Wednesday. Read more
Raytheon plans to equip military aircraft with an identification friend or foe interrogator system to comply with an IFF mandate by June 30, 2020, Avionics International reported Wednesday. Read more
Boeing has secured a five-year, $30.9M contract to set up a system for repairing automated test equipment used to evaluate components of the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft. Read more
Electric Power Systems, a manufacturer of high-power energy storage systems, has secured Series A funding from Boeing and Safran to help further the production of next-generation battery tec... Read more
Elbit Systems’ U.S. arm has agreed to provide certain technologies for a Boeing-made pilot training aircraft. Read more
Boeing’s Millenium Space Systems subsidiary conducted environmental tests for an early warning satellite used by the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center. Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne is developing a propulsion technology as part of a cruise missile development partnership with Lockheed Martin, Military.com reported Monday. Read more
Executives from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Thales Alenia Space and other satellite manufacturers said software-defined or “flexible” satellites that can redesign capacity and... Read more
Boeing has tapped Wencor Group’s Kitco Defense subsidiary to provide sub-assemblies, supply kits and related parts to support the development of wing sets for the U.S. Air Force's A-10 T... Read more
Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the company thinks some civilian space and defense programs could be in jeopardy if a new president is elected in 2020, SpaceNews... Read more
Morf3D, a metals additive manufacturing firm in El Segundo, Calif., has received additional funding from Boeing’s venture capital arm to expand its production footprint in order to meet the... Read more
Boeing has won a 30-month, $33.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee contact from the U.S. Army to install turbine engines on AH-64E Apache helicopters. Read more
Ahmed Jazzar, president of Boeing’s business in Saudi Arabia, will manage the aerospace company’s defense business in the Middle Eastern country as part of the expansion of his leadership re... Read more
Boeing plans to conduct the first unpiloted flight of its Starliner spacecraft this October, and SpaceX is working towards the end of an investigation on a ground test mishap with the Crew D... Read more
Boeing Receives Navy F/A-18 Mission Computer Procurement Contract
Boeing has received a $51.6M contract to obtain advanced capability mission computers for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 combat jets. The service branch is obligating the full contract amount at the... Read more