SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has signed a Foreign Military Sales contract with the U.S. Air Force for Belgian Ministry of Defense to acquire the MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS).

The contract covers the design, development, integratio…

For the first time, the Defense Department and the entire federal government will have access to secure, trusted, and American-made commercial drones on the General Service Administration schedule, Acting Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Kratsios announced at a virtual …

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and her cabinet colleagues will in future travel on their official business in a modified Airbus A350-900. The Defense Minister took over the particularly innovative long-haul aircraft at a ceremony at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg Airport.

“I’m definitely looking forwar…

For a variety of reasons, while many of the microelectronics available in the United States are designed here, they are manufactured overseas. This presents problems for national security, and for the Defense Department, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment said.

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On August 24, the Belgian naval ship M917 Crocus will set sail towards the Baltic Sea for three months. Under the command of Lieutenant 1st Class Marie-France Godeau, the ship will be deployed within one of NATO’s four permanent naval squadrons, the Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group1 (SNMCMG…

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — The United States military has used unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for decades, and increasingly counts on them to perform dangerous missions that save Soldiers’ lives.

Among these flying wonders is the Aerosonde, a catapult-launched and net recovered aircraft used p…