Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Airware, a company working on cloud software to manage drone operations and data that became a darling of the UAV-oriented startup scene, reportedly has closed its doors.

By Tony Osborne
The company has spent £2 million ($2.6 million) on a new training facility in Lincoln, UK, that will triple the company’s training capacity for both cyber activities and electronic warfare.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has signed a new agreement to fly on SpaceX's BFR along with six to eight artists of his choosing, in a flight targeted for 2023.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Fledgling firefighting company Seaplane Global Air Services has outlined plans to lease out waterbombing aircraft, especially the amphibious Beriev Be-200.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA is re-assessing plans for a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to upgrade its solar power generation system with more efficient lithium ion power storage batteries.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The decision to upgrade to the AH-64E makes the Netherlands the second European nation to follow this path, after the UK.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
“The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
Defense

India’s space agency has successfully put into orbit two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—in a rare night launch for the country.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
Lockheed Martin anticipates exporting the cruise missile in three years.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
BAE Systems is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to cut the cost of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Sean Stackley, best known as Washington’s naval acquisition czar under the Obama administration, has become L3's corporate senior vice president and president of Communications & Networked.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Saudi Arabia currently has 10 MH-60Rs on order through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Rockwell Collins is promoting a digital upgrade of the HGS-6000 Head-up Guidance System on the C-130J Super Hercules that will combine enhanced and synthetic vision for U.S. Air Force missions as well as for firefighting operations.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Marks the 155th and final mission for the booster that helped put the U.S. back into the space business after the 1986 Challenger accident.
Space

LEONARDO DRS won a contract to develop a deployable flight recorder technology for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Quanterion Solutions Inc. a $31.6 million contract for the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center basic center of operations.

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By Steve Trimble
The fixed-price contract worth up to $7.2 billion came to Lockheed by default after Boeing and Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition earlier this year.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill conference report allots the Pentagon $1.7 billion for 16 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Detecting and tracking “dark ships” suspected of smuggling or illegal fishing will be the first application for a radio frequency (RF)-based data stream collected by a new cluster of commercial cubesats scheduled for launch by the end of November
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The Sikorsky Boeing team hopes to fly the SB-1 Defiant advanced rotorcraft demonstrator before year’s end.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The release of the U.S. Army’s broad agency announcement for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competitive prototyping program is imminent, an industry executive says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is implementing a series of corrective measures to reduce the number of physiological events that pilots experience while flying the T-6 Texan.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
A belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business to Safran has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, the chief executive of the latter told analysts recently.
Defense