Next Month.

MQ-25 Stingray

* The Navy plans to award a contract later this year to develop the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial vehicle after years of changing requirements and false starts. Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Atomics are competing for the potentially lucrative deal to build the service's first unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft.

UAS Export Policy

* President Donald Trump has tasked federal agencies to develop an implementation plan for his new initiative to facilitate U.S. sales of unmanned aerial systems and other military equipment to overseas partners. What are the implications of these changes? And will they have the desired effect?

Space Launch

* The national security space enterprise wants to leverage the private sector's new wave of reusable and affordable satellite launch technology for lower prices and more agile schedules.

Space Acquisitions

* The Air Force took a bold step when it declared that it would develop a next-generation space-based infrared radar satellite in five years...