Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Engineering development tests of modified Longbow Hellfire missiles for use on Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were successfully conducted in June, the U.S. Navy reports.

Central to both proposals is allowing private-sector entities, rather than the FAA, to manage airspace operations.

U.S. NAVY and U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY tested RAYTHEON-built Standard Missile-6 in its first intercept of a ballistic missile target at sea as part

The Iran nuclear deal continues to dominate discussion in Washington. On Tuesday both the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign Relations

SYDNEY — While most of the international attention this month has focused on the Talisman Saber exercise in Australia, other recent joint training

NEW DELHI—India and the U.S are working together to develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar), expected to be launched in 2021.

Selected aerospace and defense contracts for July 27 U.S. ARMY L-3 Communications Corp., Systems Field Support, Madison, Mississippi, was awarded a

While it sizes up high-value landing site candidates for its next Mars rover, NASA is developing strategies for protecting dozens of potential rock and soil samples cached on the red planet for harvest and return to Earth at some time in the future.

Boeing is facing another delay for first flight of its first fully outfitted KC-46 tanker due to a testing foul.

Canadian space company Thoth Technology has received a U.S. patent for a 20-km (12-mi.) space elevator tower that would replace the first stage of a rocket as a means of lowering cost to orbit.

The British government has committed to continue its involvement in the ongoing U.S.-led air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State militants into 2017.

Australia has moved forward construction of its next frigate class by three years to 2020 and confirmed its plan to maintain a permanent naval construction industry fed with continuous orders.

The U.S. “will be the 20th country to sign up for a commercial launch by India,” says an official at the Indian Space Research Organization.

The U.S. Navy still has a technical edge in its undersea capabilities, according to Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations.

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser CG 54 USS Antietam participated in an air defense exercise (Adex) with the Australian Defense Force last month in the Timor Sea during the Talisman Sabre (TS) 2015 exercise.

A U.S. Navy task group comprising ships, aircraft, sailors and Marines arrived in Indonesia earlier this month to commence the 21st annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) Indonesia 2015.

Facebook’s Connectivity Lab says the solar-powered Aquila flying-wing UAV — which has a span of 140 ft., comparable with a Boeing 737, but weighs less than 1,000 lb. — has been completed in the U.K. and is ready for flight and payload testing later this year in the U.S.

Two missions will be selected in 2017 for final development, with launch set for no earlier than 2020.

After years of the U.S. Army dithering over requirements, Lockheed Martin finally has received a formal development contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), which will replace Hellfire and TOW missiles on rotary wing and unmanned aircraft.

The next test will take place in Israel. If successful, it will be followed by a test aboard an Indian warship in October.

The company faced a €290 million ($316 million) charge on the troubled airlifter, which suffered a crash in early May that significantly affected flight-testing and delivery progress.

U.S. AIR FORCE declared initial operational capability for the Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman Advanced Extremely High Frequency system on July 28. First three satellites are in orbit; AEHF-4 will launch in 2017, AEHF-5 in 2018, AEHF-6 in 2019. FERRA ENGINEERING, Brisbane, received first Australian supplier contract from Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton UAV, for mechanical subassemblies for the first four air vehicles, including structural components.

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To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) July 28-30—Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Management Convention (UTM) 2015, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. For more information go to aviationsystems.arc.nasa.gov/utm/utm2015.shtml or svc-auvsi.org/attendee-information

Five years later than planned, billions of dollars over budget and despite multiple attempts to kill it, the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is finally beginning its operational use with the U.S. Marine Corps.