NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams became the first people to launch to orbit inside a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Starliner, lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:52am ET and embarking on a 25-hour flight to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch begins the NASA-Boeing StarlinerContinue Reading
The Piemonte site, the heart of the F-35 programme‘s European production activity, was chosen by the United States government and Lockheed Martin as the aircraft’s only Final Assembly and Check-Out (FACO) line in Europe, the second wing assembly line (the only one outside the U.S.) and the Euro-Mediterranean regional heavy airframe Maintenance,Continue Reading
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $677 million contract to continue producing AN/SPY-6(V) radars for the U.S. Navy. This is the third option exercised from the March 2022 hardware, production, and sustainment contract, which is valued up to $3 billion over five years. Under this contract, the U.S. Navy will receiveContinue Reading
Continuing its Eastern European push, Lockheed Martin and local Aerostar S.A. have inaugurated Europe’s first certified HIMARS Sustainment Centre. This new facility strengthens the existing relationship between global defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin and Aerostar S.A., which have partnered on similar sustainment activities for Romania’s Black Hawk and F-16 fighterContinue Reading
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible emergency Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Ukraine of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and related elements of logistics and program support for an estimated cost of $30 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification, notifyingContinue Reading