The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday evening approved the acquisition by Northrop Grumman of Orbital ATK contingent on Northrop Grumman agreeing to operate its new solid rocket motor (SRM) ...

Performance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to supercharge its capacity and capabilities for making key drone components, expects ...

A-BPSK aviation binary phase shift keying—a form of phase-shift keyed modulation with shaped filters especially adapted to perform in an RF environment subject to fading A-QPSK aeronautical quadrature ...

Securing aircraft and associated systems against potential cyberattacks ensures the safety and integrity of communication, navigation and operational systems. In 2015, Chris Roberts, a cybersecurity ...

For over a decade, the U.S. has been facing a persistent and growing shortage of air traffic controllers. The problem has ballooned into a full-blown crisis, straining airport operations, triggering ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II’s calling card is being a mobile sensor package that can the effectiveness of an entire fleet — an entire military front — by sharing data and coordinating ...

Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...

The Airbus A350 and the Boeing 787 are the two most technologically advanced commercial airliners in the aviation industry today. What’s always difficult to measure about aircraft technologically and ...

We have all seen the dramatic air combat sequence in movies—with a target sight, virtual guides help the pilot aim his weapon and lock on before firing. Those on-screen guides appear in the ...

For all the advances aviation has made over the past century, one challenge has never gone away: weather. Storms, turbulence, icing, wind shear, and rapidly changing conditions continue to shape every ...

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) on July 1 said it invited 19 companies to compete in the final stage of its second challenge round in August with a chance to win production orders worth a ...

The Air Force’s fiscal 2027 future years defense plan (FYDP) contains more than $1.7 billion to retrofit 181 Lockheed Martin F-35As in Lot 17 and prior with the future Northrop Grumman AN/APG-85 radar ...