Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Cutting defense spending will not close the U.S. government’s spending deficit, and doing so would be a dangerous disservice to U.S. troops and the American people, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Dec. 1 here at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum.

SIKORSKY has $15m U.S. Navy contract for VH-3D/VH-60N executive helicopter special progressive aircraft rework.

In response to a Nov. 21 item on Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) future business jet work, IAI sent the following official comment: “IAI would like to clarify that it is fully committed to its partnership with Gulfstream and to the G280 project.

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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $655m Foreign Military Sale to Poland of 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) M142 Launchers and other related equipment.

South Korea plans to purchase two Green Pine Block C radar warning systems made by Israel Aerospace Industries’ Elta division in a deal worth an estimated $292 million.

The "coastal patrol" UH-60 would be a low-cost alternative to the U.S. Navy’s more advanced MH-60R.

Lockheed Martin Space will demonstrate a new booster for a submarine-launched, intermediate-range hypersonic weapon.

Honeywell said Nov. 30 it plans to move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Morris Plains, New Jersey.

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Honeywell said it has started testing commercial microfabricated trapped-ion qubit devices as the company spins up a quantum computing-related business line.

Subaru is aiming for large cost reductions in production of a new version of the Bell 412 that the company will build for the Japanese army and civil customers.

Japan’s prospective requirement for attack helos is likely to include shipboard operation and entry into service no later than the mid-2020s.

UAS specialist General Atomics Aeronautical Systems wants to grow ties and work with defense suppliers and related businesses in Japan, the company said.

India’s national defense agency has successfully tested a new Stand-off Anti-Tank missile meant to bolster the military’s multi-platform launch capability.

DHS has developed a new low-cost antenna and has already transferred the technology to three unidentified companies for commercialization.

A Japanese final-assembly plant for Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings has capacity for continued and faster production after the country’s current order is complete.

GENERAL ATOMICS opened new office in New Delhi and appointed Pratesh Gandhi director of the company’s business in India.

The U.S. Navy is seeking an autonomous cargo-unmanned aerial system and will host an experiment in March to transport a 50-lb. payload.

A USAF plan to grow by 74 operational squadrons over the next 12 years may include a 400% increase in units dedicated to the electronic warfare mission.

A new Russian anti-ship missile and one of its likely U.S. countermeasures are racing to be fielded at sea by the end of next year.

NASA has selected nine companies eligible to fly small payloads to the surface of the Moon.

With a combined annual supply chain and outsourced budget of $9 billion, the leaders of the future L3 Harris Technologies defense and aerospace services giant will rein in those costs to help reach at least $500 million in savings over three years, the company’s COO-designate said Nov. 29.

German air rescue organization ADAC Luftrettung is to study the feasibility of using Volocopter eVTOL aircraft as air shuttles for emergency doctors.

Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a cooperative agreement that covers commercial and military aviation, in Israel and globally.