Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing has delivered the interim fix, known as a fail-safe collar, to the U.S. Army and half of the program’s international customers so far to ensure the helicopter's rotor blades don't separate from the aircraft.

NASA has established an anomaly review panel to investigate a gyroscope issue that triggered the 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode late Oct. 5.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students verified the accuracy of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals at high altitude in research supporting the integration of rocket launches and suborbital spaceflights in the U.S. airspace system.

The U.S. Army’s recently opened Futures Command in Austin, Texas, is aimed at fixing the service’s notoriously laborious weapons acquisition process.

A Sikorsky/Boeing team says the high-speed SB-1 prototype “remains on a path” to achieve first flight by year’s end.

As the Pentagon forms its next budget request, U.S. Army acquisition officials have asked Boeing to describe the impact of delaying the initial operational capability milestone for the CH-47 Block II by five years, the company says.

This week the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual symposium is underway near Washington.

FRENCH AIR FORCE marked formal service introduction of PILATUS PC-21 trainer Oct. 2.

Onvoi LLC, De Funiak Springs, Florida, has been awarded a $39,951,581 contract for base operating services at March Air Reserve Base, California.

Aerospace manufacturing and the supply chain continue to grow in South Carolina, economic boosters claimed Oct. 8.

The competition is between the Boeing CH-47 Chinook and Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion.

Investors see rotorcraft prevailing over legacy ground vehicles in long-term Pentagon planning.

The General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range UAV has completed operational testing and evaluation.

Airbus is completing its ongoing leadership transition by naming Guillaume Faury its new CEO.

L3 Technologies on Oct. 6 celebrated the opening of its expanded L3 Arlington Training Center facility in Arlington, Texas.

SAFRAN subsidiary ROBONIC LTD. OY delivered third-generation Kontio pneumatic UAV/target drone launcher to Leonardo.

The U.S. government has approved the sale of three intelligence-gathering King Air 350ER aircraft to the Canadian military, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Oct. 4.

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The Houston Airport System’s commercial spaceport license features a constraint—horizontal launches and landings only. But HAS seems willing to embrace this limitation.

Aerospace features high on the list of potential applications for technologies to be developed under the latest round of tech projects announced by the LIFT manufacturing institute.

Chinese state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November.

The U.S. Army’s selection eliminates rival bids by Northrop Grumman and newcomer Technovative Applications to develop a significantly improved radar system for Patriot.

BAE Systems has unveiled a next-generation threat management technology that can work with fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to dispense countermeasures.

Boeing has teamed with Robotic Skies, a brokered global network of more than 160 independently-owned and operated repair stations providing MRO on commercial UAVs, including to offer supply chain management and analytics.

The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $454 million, five-year contract to supply Wescam MX-10D sensor systems to upgrade the service’s RQ-7B UAVs.