Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

BOEING has $21.3m U.S. Air Force contract for Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 sustainment.

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U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) deployed one P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime aircraft to Punta Arenas, Chile, on Dec. 10.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is suffering delays getting the threat assessments it needs to make informed acquisition decisions, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.

LOCKHEED MARTIN Corp. has $18m U.S. Navy contract for maintenance and operation of the Australia, Canada, United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory (ACURL) for the F-35.

The Czech Republic signed an agreement at the Pentagon Dec. 12 to buy eight UH-1Y Venom and four AH-1Z Viper helicopters.

Recovery teams have found components of the aircraft’s landing gear.

NASA on Dec. 12 cleared Boeing for an uncrewed trial run of its CST-100 Starliner space taxi to the ISS.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team has selected the primary and backup collection sites on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

The U.S. military on Dec. 12 lofted an intermediate-range, ground-launched ballistic missile traveling more than 500 km.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 4,257 new rotary-wing aircraft will be built and delivered to military operators and 1,453 will be remanufactured or re-engined.

Although the House has OK'd a bill to set up a Space Force, the military will not be able to implement it until a fiscal 2020 approps bill is passed, the DOD says.

Although the House has OK'd a bill to establish a Space Force, the military can't implement it until a fiscal 2020 approps bill is passed, the DOD says.

Flight operations with the Elbit-made UAVs reportedly are likely to be delayed around six months.

Ships and aircraft scouring the Drake Passage between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic peninsula have recovered components of the aircraft’s main landing gear and elements from the fuel system.

The U.S. military lofted an intermediate-range, ground-launched ballistic missile traveling more than 500 km.

Northrop Grumman, one of four companies vying for a pair of national security space launch service contracts, has signed an agreement with Delaware

A NASA-led group is addressing the threat posed by space junk to a growing, more diverse space economy.

Northrop Grumman has signed an agreement with startup Saturn Satellite Networks for the first flight of its Omega rocket.

Drone traffic management system developer Altitude Angel will provide an unmanned aircraft system traffic management platform for the Netherlands.

CEO Dan Jablonsky confirmed the company is exploring a wide range of possibilities. “We continue to get asked what else we might do," he says. "We continue to look at all alternatives.”

CEO Dan Jablonsky confirmed the company is exploring a wide range of possibilities.

The introduction of a VTOL unmanned aircraft to each platoon will be staggered monthly beginning in April.

The introduction of a VTOL unmanned aircraft to each platoon will be staggered monthly beginning in April and each unit will operate only one system.

AUSTRALIA received seven more F-35A Lightning IIs at RAAF Base Williamtown, bringing total fleet operating at the base to 13.