Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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General Electric will develop Huntsville, Alabama-based production facilities dedicated to making materials for the ceramic matrix composites (CMC) that will feature in the new generation of CFM Leap and GE9X engines.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to keep a close watch on several major defense acquisition programs, including the Long-Range Strike Bomber.

Two spacewalking NASA astronauts resumed efforts to prepare the International Space Station for future dockings by U.S. commercial crew transport vehicles on Oct. 28.

Croatia is once again looking at the possible procurement of Saab’s Gripen fighter jet.

Overcoming planetary protection concerns presents just one of many significant challenges involved in putting humans onto the Martian terrain.

South Korea’s defense ministry is due to decide soon between Korea Aerospace Industries' Surion helicopter and a competition for imports for the country's navy.

Paris-based fleet operator Eutelsat has ordered an all-electric communications satellite in development at spacecraft manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.

U.K. aerostructures manufacturer GKN has completed the acquisition of Fokker Technologies.

The world’s last flying Avro Vulcan has performed its final flight, eight years after the aircraft was returned to the sky by volunteers.

LOCKHEED MARTIN and NASA completed most of Orion spacecraft’s

This week the defense industry waits to find out whether Northrop Grumman or

KDH Defense Systems Inc., Eden, North Carolina and Point Blank Enterprises Inc., Pompano Beach, Florida were awarded

LRS-B was once deemed a tipping point for Northrop Grumman Aerospace’s future, but the shape of the industrial base is not likely to change soon after the award announcement.

Northrop Grumman is the winner of the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) contest, beating a rival team with six times its annual sales.

The 30-min low-speed flight of the first engineering development model (EDM-1) begins a three-year, 2,000-hr. flight test program.

The Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program and today’s source selection cannot be understood without looking at LRS-B’s roots.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active electronically scanning array radar.

A NAS report says NASA’s Earth Sciences Division budget is constrained and in need of a framework for prioritizing its choices for space missions.

Kansas State University and Westar Energy have partnered to create what they call one of the country’s largest enclosed unmanned flight facilities.

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to be the first deputy assistant secretary of the navy (DASN) for unmanned systems.

U.S. Navy officials have made it clear they expect to rely on the Growlers more, even as the F-35C carrier-variant Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) come on line.

A U.S. guided missile destroyer has passed within 12 nm of Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands, which are under dispute by China and its neighbors.

Controllers operating the New Horizons Pluto probe have confirmed that the nuclear-powered spacecraft completed the second of four maneuvers designed to take it past a lone Kuiper Belt Object at the beginning of 2019.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active, electronically scanning array.