Will Roper, assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force, has said he sees hypersonics as another program that goes through prototyping and “embraces the potential for failure†upfront
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The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act is set to establish a program to develop technologies to intercept hostile ballistic missiles at the boost or initial stage of flight, Defense News reported Monday.
More Several U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained satellite images that suggest North Korea is developing new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S., the Washington Post reported Monday. The National Geospatial-Intelligence
More The Government Accountability Office called on the Defense Department to collect and consolidate agency-wide knowledge about hosting government payloads aboard commercially manufactured satellites. GAO said Monday it found that, although multiple offices within the
More Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel members are cautioning NASA that the schedules for upcoming crew test flights in August are too soon, Space News reported Monday. Patricia Sanders, who chairs ASAP, said at
More Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, is due to retire in September after three years in the position and four decades of military service. Pawlikoski has led an
More The National Counterintelligence and Security Center recently described Russia, Iran and China as “the most capable and active†among the foreign entities that pose a cyber intelligence threat to the United States.
More The Agriculture Department has begun to ask for public comments on a new pilot program that aims to expand the delivery of broadband services to remote areas in the U.S. through private
More Jody Singer, deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has been appointed as the acting director of the research facility to replace Todd May, who recently retired from the space agency.
More President Trump intends to nominate James Paul Gfrerer, an executive director at Ernst & Young, as assistant secretary for information and technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Gfrerer, a graduate of
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