Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Testing of two Airbus electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) concept vehicles is set to pass key milestones.

BOEING has $40m U.S. Air Force contract for Infra-Red Search and Track Block II Ship Sets.

London police are investigating two small improvised explosive devices (IEDs) sent to administrative offices at two of the city’s airports.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has prepared a list of Israeli-made weapons and other systems it wants the F-35 Adir to carry.

Robinson Helicopter has ground tested a modified R44 with a variety of diesel engines and says work continues toward a lower-fuel-burn, longer-range derivative of the popular piston-powered light single.

Boeing says it has completed the acquisition of ForeFlight, a provider of mobile and web-based aviation applications.

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has paused efforts to pry into the planet’s subsurface with the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) for about two weeks.

India will launch three defense satellites over the next six months aimed at boosting the strategic communications and networking potential of its military.

Boeing is laying groundwork for a possible sale of T-X trainers to Canberra, briefing the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on the type.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $30.8m U.S. Navy contract for initial lay-in of repair material for ten F-35 Lightning IIs.

This week SpaceX is due to conclude its Demo Mission-1 to the International Space Station with the departure and Atlantic Ocean splashdown of its Crew Dragon spacecraft on Friday.

RiverTech, LLC,* Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $34,513,979 firm-fixed-price contract for command and control technical support.

MD Helicopters has revealed it has entered the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) technology demonstration contest with a platform that will use the company’s NOTAR anti-torque system.

The U.S. should withhold F-35s from Turkey if the Eurasian member of NATO accepts delivery of an advanced Russian air defense system, the head of U.S. European Command told Congress March 5.

After two years away from operational service, including 18 months of overhaul and upgrade, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has left Toulon, France, for a wide-ranging mission.

Raytheon, now the second company on the TBG program after Lockheed Martin, has released a new artist’s impression of its concept.

Switzerland’s Kopter Group plans to carry out helicopter assembly in the U.S. by moving into a Louisiana facility originally built for Bell.

Organizers of the Farnborough Airshow have decided to halt its public weekend air show days.

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) became House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee chairman in January, after serving as ranking member.

Following up on the legacy of NASA’s aging Great Observatories may depend on breaking a cost spiral that has delayed the JWST and threatened the WFIRST.

The U.S. Commerce Department will lead an investigation into whether titanium sponge imports into the U.S. threaten national security.

The JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission team thinks there is “high potential” that the first attempt at a sample collection from the surface of the near Earth asteroid Ryugu was successful.

Mars’ northern hemisphere was dotted with at least two dozen large craters that appear to have been filled by groundwater about 3 1/2 billion years ago, and possibly part of a global subsurface aquifer, according to observations gathered by Mars orbiters.

Acknowledging the reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the U.S. Air Force has dropped the word “expendable” from the name of its orbital launch services acquisition program.

The U.S. Army is considering extended-range, maritime strike versions of the Precision Strike Missile as the U.S. government negotiates a withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.