Aerospace-Defense News

Years of U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq should eventually mean increased business for Heroux-Devtek Inc.

Pratt & Whitney Canada and MTU Aero Engines GmbH signed today a memorandum of understanding to jointly pursue business opportunities in the growing unmanned aerial vehicle market in Europe.

Michael Griffin, the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, placed an essay in 2007 on the NASA Web site in which he answers the question "Why explore space?" It's still there if ...

General Electric Co said its GE Commercial Finance unit will acquire Banco Santander SA's Italian banking arm Interbanca, while the Spanish bank will buy several GE Money businesses in Europe.

Alliant Techsystems announces that the Ultraflex Solar Arrays deployed and now provide power to the Mars Phoenix Lander.

President Bush, center, shakes hands with Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman and Chief executive Officer of General Dynamics and Vice Chairman, Ford's Theatre's Board of Trustees, as he arrives to attend Ford's ...

The U.S. space agency says it has selected six mission proposals for further evaluation as part of its Small Explorer space program.

NASA Spacecraft will Study Water-Ice on the Northern Plans of Mars NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars.

Jun 1, 2008 9:53 AM By MALIN RISING, AP 12 mins ago: Pension fund pulls out of cluster bombs Swedish pension fund AP7 said Sunday it will sell all its holdings in companies making cluster bombs and nuclear ...

The U.S. space agency said it's seeking ideas for its lunar surface systems concept to help it develop plans for a return to the moon by 2020.

Eclipse Aviation formally announced its intention to begin production of a $1.35 million single-engine jet called the Eclipse 400.

Hagel to replace Larsson later this year William D. Larsson is retiring from Precision Castparts Corp, where he has been senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Boeing Co. , the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, said global orders for its 767 tanker plane will depend on the U.S. government's ruling on a $35 billion Air Force contract lost to Northrop Grumman ...

A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace rocket launch company said ...

An experiment to develop a salmonella vaccine aboard the US space shuttle Discovery could pave the way for a gush of commercial biotechnology research in space, NASA and biotech industry officials said Friday.

By christopher p. cavas Published: 30 May 17:27 EDT Both competitors in the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program submitted their plans to build more ships by the May 30 deadline.

Geraldine Marquez died last year in a suicide bombing at age 31 while she was working as a civilian contractor at an air base in Afghanistan.

Eclipse Aviation Corp. has raised the price for the Eclipse 500 jet by more than $500,000 to $2.15 million.

Northrop Grumman expects to begin work in two weeks on a renovation at the old Naval Station Pascagoula on Singing River Island.

Bath Iron Works hasn't built a Coast Guard ship since the 1930s, but it's made the list of finalists vying to build a fast-response Coast Guard cutter.