Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Lee Hudson
Raytheon filed a bid protest with the GAO after the U.S. Navy selected L3 and Northrop Grumman to conduct a tech demo for the low-band frequency of the Next Generation Jammer.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The DOD notified Congress it will use $2.7 million in fiscal 2018 funding to buy counter-unmanned aerial system equipment for coalition partners backing the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Northrop Grumman is to flight test an RF comm link that can provide fiber-like data capacity from high-altitude surveillance aircraft direct to FOBs.
Connected Aerospace

By Arie Egozi
Rafael plans to offer its Spike anti-tank missile for the Australian Army to carry aboard its helicopters.
Defense

Marhalim Abas
Indonesia has deployed an Airbus AS 365N3+ Dauphin light helicopter to Lebanon to support the U.N. peacekeeping mission there.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Sat-based surveillance system developer Aireon and the Irish Aviation Authority have started preregistration for the Aircraft Locating and Emergency Response Tracking service.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
Israeli experts have doubts about the capabilities of Iran’s newly revealed fighter aircraft, which appears to be a another copy of the 1950s-era Northrop F-5.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
Israel’s Rafael has developed a new passive system dubbed Sky Spotter to detect “primitive” aerial weapons like drones, kites and balloons.
Defense

BOEING has $217m U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract for F/A-18 aircraft spare parts.

On Tuesday morning the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will discuss U.S.-Russia relations with witnesses including Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Christopher Ford.

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona, has been awarded a $23,178,805, firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for air traffic control radio replacement.

By Tony Osborne
A British company believes a powered paraglider could be a low-cost, practical solution to a long-running logistical headache.

By Lee Hudson
Senators are concerned the military services will abuse other transaction authority, a mechanism Congress approved to bypass the traditional acquisition system.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
United Technologies has bought a predictive analytics boutique as part of the Tier 1 supplier’s corporate push into becoming a software-industrial giant.
Connected Aerospace

By Arie Egozi
The growing demand for VTOL unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is driving Israeli companies both to develop new aircraft and convert existing types for the role.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Mid-way to Mars, key instruments on NASA's Insight lander have checked out, including the delicate French seismometer that forced a two-year launch delay.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
The Israeli Air Force will have to change its operational patterns while flying over Syria after Turkey receives Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
U.S. Special Operations Command is moving to expand the availability of UAS to small teams for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
A campaign is said to be underway to get the F-35’s European engine maintenance center moved from Turkey to Israel.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV—After years of being known as a small military that can execute well-planned airstrikes, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is finding new ways to stay relevant in an era of cyberwarfare, pumping money and attention into linking its information networks and making sense of data from disparate assets.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy’s aircrew systems program office intends to host an industry day in late September for a real-time physiological monitoring and alerting system.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has left port in readiness for flight trials with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled details of the vehicles it is developing for deployment from the very large carrier aircraft in the final stages of preflight testing.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric aircraft developer Bye Aerospace has flown the tech demonstrator for its solar-powered StratoAirNet unmanned and Solesa manned surveillance aircraft.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Russia’s Tupolev has rolled out an upgraded version of its Tu-22M ‘Backfire’ supersonic variable geometry strike aircraft.
Defense