Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A major operational test series planned for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been abandoned in an attempt to protect the schedule for delivering a fully operational aircraft, according to the just-released fiscal 2014 report on the program from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.

In putting together its package to win the vaunted U.S. Navy Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), Raytheon bet it could do the job in rapid time – and so far the contractor has been able to keep the odds in its favor.

Plans for the first one-year missions to the International Space Station by U.S. and Russian astronauts seem well-timed from the long view.

Supplier woes are forcing Airbus Defense and Space to revise delivery plans for the A400M tactical transport aircraft this year.

Some details of the so-far highly classified Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) could be unveiled late this year, an Air Force official says.

After a delay of more than two decades, India’s indigenously made Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has finally been inducted into the Indian air force.

Eurojet – the consortium that builds the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter Typhoon – has agreed to collaborate with Turkish defense electronics firm Aselsan.

Protecting U.S. cyber networks could create some turf conflicts, suggests a recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

To realize its dream of putting laser weapons on its surface warships, the U.S. Navy may have to redesign the vessels, a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report says.

The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC) has opened talks with undisclosed foreign counterpart organizations with the aim of supporting Japan’s entry into the arms export market.

The 10-year contract, beginning in April 2016, will see AAR and BIH operating a mixed fleet of upgraded Sikorsky S-61s for logistics and transport missions while the AgustaWestland AW189 will be employed on search-and-rescue (SAR) duties

The Swedish government has acknowledged it carried out a second submarine hunt in the waters near Stockholm. The second search, revealed by the

BOEING delivered Chinook Maintenance Trainer to Royal Canadian Air Force for new facility in Garrison Petawawa, ON. ATAC, VA was selected by U.S.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $963.5m USAF contract for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ground subsystems support; work to finish by Jan. 31, 2020

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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.) Jan. 20-22 — Sixth AHS International Specialists’ Meeting On Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems: Platform Design, Autonomy, Operator Workload Reduction and Network Centric Operations, Chandler, Arizona. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/unmanned-rotorcraft-systems

Mikhail Pogosyan, general director of Russia’s United Aircraft Company since January 2011, was removed from office on Friday Jan. 16 by the company’s board.

Flight tested in the company’s Boeing 727 test bed, the APG-79(V)X has a slightly smaller antenna to match the volume, power and cooling available in earlier F/A-18 Hornets now equipped with Raytheon’s APG-65 and APG-73 mechanically scanned radars.

"We have to bring more discipline to this," says Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, commander of the Naval Surface Force and the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

The U.S. Navy is sending the guided-missile cruiser CG 62 USS Chancellorsville to join the Forward Deployed Naval Forces in Yokosuka, Japan.

The Navy simply cannot afford to build other ships while developing and building the new strategic submarine force, says service secretary Ray Mabus

The budget includes sizable commitments from the European Commission (EC) and Europe’s EUMETSAT meteorological satellite organization.

The International Space Station has an ambitious schedule of research and reconfiguration ahead as it soon becomes home to its first two crewmembers prepared to spend a year aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory.

Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by human activity made 2014 the warmest year on record, NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Friday.