Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

An autonomous electric cargo transport ground vehicle is to be tested at the UK’s East Midlands Airport.

This budget is in line with the French Military Programming Law, which provides for a total budget for the armed forces of €413.3 billion between 2024 and 2030.

France's “historic” performance, as described by the report, is largely due to the sale of 80 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters and associated weapons to the UAE.

Jaunt Air Mobility has confirmed plans to sell its quarter-scale air taxi technology demonstrator as a standalone product.

The U.S. Navy has not decided whether the competition will be managed at the all-up round level or with subcomponents.

A final upgrade for the Lockheed Martin U-2S is moving forward.

Zero-trust architecture is an approach to information technology security that emphasizes constant reverification of device identity and integrity.

Hypersonic test company Stratolaunch has mated the first full rocket-configured Talon vehicle to the Roc carrier aircraft and is poised to begin a series of ground and flight tests aimed at attempting the first Mach 5 test before year’s end.

A consortium of companies led by Swedish drone and vertiport startup Kookiejar plans to demo drone delivery of goods from Monaco to a superyacht.

Senate Republicans are continuing to evaluate Michael Whitaker, President Biden’s nominee for administrator of the FAA.

The Czech government has approved the acquisition of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics have for the first time demonstrated the ability of a heavy lift uncrewed multicopter to drop a torpedo.

Romania’s defense ministry has launched the process to acquire as many as 48 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

Rocket Lab warned investors on Sept. 26 that it had to lower its financial expectations for the current third quarter ending Sept. 30.

The capsule touched down at 7:17 a.m. EDT, about 90 mi. southeast of Dzhezkazgan, and was met within minutes by recovery team members.

Prague-based Stratosyst wants to offer a fixed stratospheric capability with SkyRider, its helium airship

Advancements in commercial space tech helped the U.S. Space Force, Millennium Space Systems and Firefly Aerospace pull off the Victus Nox rapid launch demo.

Thoma Bravo is selling its aerospace and defense consultancy Exostar to Arlington Capital Partners.

Instead of operating from a large aircraft carrier, a U.S. Navy request seeks concepts for ships with flight decks between 50-200 ft. long and 40-100 ft. wide.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is lobbying German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow a potential sale of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

Textron and Griffon will compete for the Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft System development contract after the U.S. Army has eliminated three other teams.

The Program Executive Office - Fixed Wing and SOFWERX, the command’s rapid prototyping agency, plan to host a series of demonstrations of loitering munitions.

An Icelandic startup is attempting to develop an uncrewed aircraft system that will mimic the flight of a bird.

The vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS is designed to provide the Singapore Armed Forces command post last-mile intelligence of areas of interest.

A Japanese partnership of MUFG Bank, Kanematsu and Tokio Marine & Nichido led the Sierra Space funding round, which will fund space station development.