Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Development of a new powerplant for Boeing AH-64 Apache and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters has been launched formally by the U.S. Army.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.K. is extending the intelligence gathering mission of its Raytheon Sentinel radar-reconnaissance aircraft against the Islamic State for an extra year.
Defense

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has U.S. Army indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to develop

Support in Congress is building for passage of a short-term spending bill, or continuing resolution, that would fund

In a U.S. Navy field test, Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24B mine-hunting system successfully demonstrated the ability to perform synthetic aperture sonar
Defense

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Defense

First flight for the KC-46 tanker is a major milestone to kick off testing of the refueling systems in the jet.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
AeroVironment says it has been dropped from Darpa’s Tern program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
A series of drop tests of the small Prandtl-M from a balloon at high altitude—to simulate the atmosphere of Mars—are scheduled to begin later this year.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Watchkeeper X (WKX) will integrate different sensor packages into technology originally developed for Britain.
Defense

The Defense Department should help small businesses that do work for the Pentagon prepare against cyber threats, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Defense

Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, rolled out his command’s unmanned systems strategy earlier this month at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2015 Joint Undersea Warfare Conference.
Defense

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts could mean a more balanced and joint Chinese military, says a recent online report posted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Defense

ROCKWELL COLLINS has $141m U.S. Navy contract for AN/ARC-210 electronic protection equipment for domestic/foreign

Yemeni officials say Patriot batteries deployed by the United Arab Emirates intercepted

Days after the Norwegian air force publicly unveiled its first Lockheed Martin F-35A at Fort Worth, state broadcaster NRK confirmed that the nation’s military is considering a 10-aircraft cut to the planned force of 52 fighters.
Defense

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E crashed earlier this month, marking the third Class A flight mishap for Super Hornets since July, according to service reports.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program is likely to move slowly in 2016, with the finance ministry proposing funding that looks inadequate for beginning full-scale development.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking steps to establish a catalog of prequalified 3U and 6U CubeSat suppliers prepared to furnish their small satellites on a fixed price basis for a range of future missions.
Defense

The guided-missile destroyer DDG 66 USS Gonzalez conducted testing of a UAV during a Composite Unit Training Exercise (Comptuex), U.S. Navy officials say.
Defense

U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) was deficient in its handling of requests for waivers and deferrals from certain operational test requirements for the SM-6 missile and a key system for identifying terrorists, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report says.
Defense

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole earlier this month, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied, the Coast Guard says.
Defense

The recent appearance of the Chinese DF-21D antiship ballistic missile — the so-called “carrier killer” — in the recent parade of military force in Beijing failed to leave much of a mark, at least publicly, on the Pentagon.
Defense

The U.S. Navy could be on a revolutionary path for surface-ship missile defense, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $180m U.S. Air Force contract for Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile