Sierra Nevada Corp.

By Brian Everstine
The Survivable Airborne Operations Center award was a major coup for SNC, which for decades has focused on smaller commercial-derivative modificationprograms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Sierra Nevada Corp. confirmed it will start work on the next-generation Doomsday aircraft for the U.S. Air Force with five Boeing 747s from Korean Air Lines.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has partnered with Pyka to offer the startup’s electric uncrewed cargo aircraft to U.S. Defense Department customers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick, Joe Anselmo
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.
Army Aviation Association of America

By Brian Everstine
Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a major sustainment contract for its future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) fleet.
Army Aviation Association of America

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
Reengining the C-17 and adding low-cost connectivity upgrades emerge as top priorities for Air Mobility Command.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Ahead of an expected major award for a new fleet, delays hit prototypes that had been expected to be fielded in January 2024.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army on Jan. 3 announced it ordered one Bombardier Global 6500, with options for two more.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.
Space

By Brian Everstine
A potential mandatory cut in addition to ongoing continuing resolutions have military officials blasting congressional inaction on Pentagon plans.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Sierra Nevada Corp. has won the latest prototype award, facing off against a team led by L3Harris Technologies.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to provide two contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Private midtier bets that its post-production modification and communications expertise could give it a shot over defense giants and OEMs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Leonardo UK and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Leonardo Electronics US, signed a memorandum of understanding with SNC.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army has moved into the second phase of a competition to build the next tactical-sized uncrewed aircraft system with four competitors.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
A second Great Observatory catches the eye of the fledgling in-space services industry.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is setting the requirements and looking to release a request soon for the second phase of the high-altitude ISR prototype program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Sierra Nevada Corp.’s new, small fleet of future contractor-owned, contractor-operated surveillance jets is taking shape.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Balloon industry says it can survey the Earth better than satellites and for less cost.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Stratospheric balloon operator World View will aim to become a publicly listed company via a reverse-merger deal with Leo Holdings Corp. II.
Commercial Space