Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

DTechLogic LLC, a joint venture, Huntsville, Alabama, has been awarded a competitive cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-reimbursable contract.

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) for the U.S. Air Force has passed 30 hr. of flight testing.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Providing constant, predictable federal appropriations for the U.S. human space exploration effort is the most important message Congress needs to hear, legacy contractors responsible for the late and overbudget programs told Capitol Hill aides recently.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
NASA has hired Bechtel National of Reston, Virginia, to design and build a second mobile launch platform for the long-delayed Space Launch System.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Satellite communications provider Viasat and avionics manufacturer Teledyne Controls have partnered to support inflight streaming of flight deck data for airline operational and maintenance uses.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault Aviation wants a large share of the Space Rider program, a reusable spaceplane that may be given the go-ahead.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian Defense Ministry has kept its promise to reveal the new Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik (Hunter) UCAV at its Army 2019 military exhibition.
Defense

India will buy 10 more Boeing P-8I Poseidon long-range maritime patrol aircraft through the U.S. foreign military sales program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky has transitioned its S-97 Raider tech demo to the team developing its proposal for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Competitive Prototype program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return team has decided to touch down on the surface of Ryugu for a second time on July 11.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on June 25 to deliver 24 payloads into three different orbits during a trial run for the U.S. Air Force.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Three International Space Station crewmembers ended a 204-day mission late June 24.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Britain has carried out the first operational missions of its Lockheed Martin F-35s flying with Eurofighter Typhoons over Syria.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
As the costs and complexity of such an effort become fully understood, some “gnashing of teeth” is expected that could prevent the Air Force from implementing the plan across the entire combat fleet.
Defense

By Bill Carey
In a June 24 letter to the Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, DJI protested testimony delivered by some of the witnesses who appeared at a hearing days earlier.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The latest MBDA and Lockheed Martin submission was announced June 24, four years after MEADS was selected over Raytheon’s Patriot.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The June 21 delivery of the A319OH (OH - Offenen Himmel, German for Open Skies) restores a capability lost 22 years ago.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Potential performance specifications are included in a request for information released by Army Contracting Command on June 18 as service officials seek to learn what possible bidders can offer.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
While NASA embarks on an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface in 2024, perspective partners hope to encourage a deeper search and perhaps even prospect for ice on the lunar surface.
Space

KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES and SAFRAN signed memorandum of understanding for space, commercial and military collaboration.

Supersonic airliner developer Boom has slipped first flight of its XB-1 demonstrator to 2020, but says the follow-on full-size airliner is still on track to debut in the 2025-2027 timeframe.

By Graham Warwick
This experimental vertiport is to test the components of an urban air mobility service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, to be hosted in Paris.

By Tony Osborne
Bangladesh has already purchased two former Royal Air Force (RAF) C-130Js, both of which are currently undergoing refurbishment with Marshall Aerospace and Defense in Cambridge, UK.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
An appeal by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade concluded that ministers had made no assessments on whether the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen had committed violations of international humanitarian law, Court of Appeals judges said June 20.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The company looks to resume operations, having entered extraordinary receivership at the end of last year.
Defense