The State Department last Friday approved a potential $2.2 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to the Netherlands for RTX [RTX] Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the sale on April 25. The Netherlands is seeking to buy 163 Tomahawk ...

Boeing [BA] on Wednesday reported significantly lower losses in its first quarter as losses narrowed in its Commercial Airplanes segment and the defense and services segments notched modest gains, while sales were strong on an increase in commercial aircraft deliveries. Boeing’s earnings ...

FMD + Hyundai. Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries this month to explore opportunities to collaborate of future international Navy initiatives. The MoU signing occurred during the annual Sea-Air-Space expo on ...

Golden Dome Summit Delay. The Missile Defense Agency updated a federal notice that an upcoming summit on Golden Dome-affiliated next generation missile defense technologies has been pushed back “due to overwhelming response from industry.” MDA last week said the summit is being moved to a later ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Astroscale U.S. has contracted with the U.S. Space Force to conduct the first ever refueling missions of Defense Department assets in space, and the first time hydrazine refueling operations will be done above geostationary orbit (GEO), the company said on Tuesday. Under ...

Pentagon officials have said that the speed and "end game" maneuverability of Chinese hypersonic missiles are concerns in setting up U.S. defenses against them, but Space Force/Missile Defense Agency Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) satellites under development by Northrop ...

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] expects the U.S. Navy to begin fielding the company's Shipboard Panoramic Electro-Optic/Infrared (SPEIR) system in 2027--operations that will begin with an Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer. "There is a DDG that's designated to receive the SPEIR system, and it will ...

The United States Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Northrop Grumman two in-space refueling contracts, the company said on Wednesday. "These contracts build on Northrop Grumman’s proven on-orbit satellite servicing and refueling innovation, including first-of-its-kind mission ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday announced the U.S. and Philippines agreed to several defense cooperation measures, including deploying a new Marine Corps anti-ship missile system. "The United States has been fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the Philippines since World War II. Our ...

F-47 Contract. The Air Force award to Boeing to develop the F-47 manned Next Generation Air Dominance fighter is a cost-plus incentive-fee contract the service said last week, that includes production of “a small number of test aircraft.” The fact that the engineering manufacturing and ...