Air Force Awards $766 Million for B-52 Upgrades Beyond 2050
The B-52’s latest technology is being purchased for a service life stretching beyond 2050, but it is entering a modernization…
Pentagon’s 21-Day Missile Directive Confronts Years-Long Production Schedules
The Pentagon has given U.S. weapons manufacturers 21 days to propose faster deliveries, higher production of critical missile capabilities or…
F-35 Block 4 Shrinks, Slips to 2031, Adds at Least $6 Billion
The F-35’s next major capability expansion is getting smaller even as it becomes later and more expensive. The reduced Block…
Two LaGuardia Controllers Could Be Fired After Reported Early Departures Before Fatal Collision
Two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers could be fired after reportedly leaving the tower about an hour early on the…
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 1.7 Million Fire-Risk Recalls Mostly Hit Gas Vehicles
Gasoline and diesel vehicles not electric vehicles account for most vehicles in the recent surge of federal recalls instructing owners…
Pentagon Withholds Entire F-35 Oversight Report After 20 Years of Public Scrutiny
The Pentagon has blocked public release of the entire annual review of F-35 production and modernization, ending more than two…
Patriot and THAAD Missile-Defense Deals Target Threefold, Fourfold Output
A seven-year production commitment can give a missile supplier enough confidence to hire workers, order materials and expand a factory….
Lucid Recalls 27,185 Air EVs, Tells Owners to Park Outside
An exterior-lighting circuit ordinarily seems far removed from the systems associated with an electric vehicle fire warning. In 27,185 Lucid…
NOAA Says Northern Lights May Reach Parts of 10 States Thursday
The northern lights may be visible from parts of 10 states Thursday night, even though NOAA is not forecasting a…
Ukrainian Adviser Says Interceptors Trail Reported 600-Kilometer-an-Hour Geran-5, Leaving Costlier Defenses
Ukraine’s effort to build an inexpensive defense against fast attack drones has run into a basic constraint: the interceptor must…
Ukraine Tests Four Interceptors but Lacks Mass-Produced Answer to Faster Drones
Ukraine has field-tested four prospective interceptors for Russia’s faster, jet-powered Shahed-type drones, but it has not confirmed that any candidate…
NASA Launches Roman Telescope to Survey Cosmos 1,000 Times Faster Than Hubble
NASA has launched the $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, beginning a mission expected to survey broad regions of…
USS John F. Kennedy Completes Sea Trials, but Delivery Work Remains
The U.S. Navy’s delayed newest supercarrier has completed acceptance sea trials, but USS John F. Kennedy is not yet delivered,…
Rainmaker Says Alaska Drones Triggered 19 Million Gallons of Precipitation
Rainmaker says its cloud-seeding drones caused approximately 19 million gallons of precipitation during a three-hour operation on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula….
Army’s $46 Million Chaparral Contract Shifts Focus to Field-Ready Autonomy
Elroy Air’s Chaparral cargo drone is moving beyond the basic question of whether an autonomous vertical-takeoff aircraft can transport a…
Modified Gulfstream IV Returns After Seven-Year Overhaul for 30-Year Mission
A Gulfstream IV has returned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory after a seven-year conversion that turned the business jet into a…
General Dynamics’ $533 Million Army Factory Reportedly Produced No Usable Shells
The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics $533 million for an automated artillery factory in Texas that reportedly failed to produce…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Again Hits 430,000 MPH, Future Under Review
At about 430,000 mph, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe covers roughly 120 miles every second. The spacecraft matched that record during…