Company test pilot Fred Madenwald makes the first flight of the McDonnell Douglas F/A- 18E Super Hornet carrier-based fighter attack aircraft at the company’s plant in St. Louis, Mo.
The Pentagon's research labs are ramping up their search for munitions that can be mass-produced—an effort likely to be buoyed by billions of dollars in the department's new fiscal 2027 budget request and tens of billions in the upcoming years. While the topline information shared about the President’s defense budget…