Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Jen DiMascio
Maxar Technologies has won one of nine contracts to help the Missile Defense Agency build a prototype missile tracking system.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Pentagon officials are trying to gather feedback from the aerospace and defense industry for the Trump administration’s review of the U.S. automotive industry.
Defense

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $29.9m U.S. Navy contract for procurement/delivery of 45 end items of Peculiar Support Equipment (PSE) for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

By Graham Warwick
Zipline International is working with the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit to demo the potential for medical drone delivery.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Kaman Aerospace hopes a recently unveiled leasing deal for its K-Max helicopter with Rainier Heli International will help sell the heavy-lift helicopter.
Business Aviation

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is in the early stages of building a statistical model to predict what U.S. foreign military sales will be executed in the future.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Boeing has a new name for part of its drive to vertically integrate and become a more important player in avionics, and it is hiring Americans.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.
Program Management

By Mark Carreau
NASA has enlisted 13 companies, under agreements totaling an estimated $11 million, for advice on growing a U.S. industrial presence in low Earth orbit.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Thailand has contracted Saab to upgrade the country’s national command and control system for air defense, which is based on the company’s 9AIR product.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A second Bombardier Global 6000 business jet modified for electronic and signals-intelligence-gathering missions has made its first post-conversion flight.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Spire has chosen Arianespace to launch “a significant number” of its cubesats on a Vega rocket in 2019.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus’ Zephyr S high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) has broken its flight time record by flying nonstop for almost 26 days.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
In the past four years, companies have worked on 101 different small sat launchers, with 34 in development today, a Northrop Grumman industry survey says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The DOD has renamed its innovation unit that focuses on attracting nontraditional companies to work on artificial intel, autonomy, human systems, info tech and space.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected six U.S.-led enterprises to advance the development of 10 promising new space technologies on three broad fronts.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Fresh off a string of business unit divestitures, Triumph Group expects to slice off several more units this quarter.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $13.1m U.S. Air Force contract for Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam) technical support.

The Pentagon is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government- and non-government-issued devices, applications and services.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a precision tracking demonstration with a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper in the Pacific late Aug. 8, an official said.
Air Dominance

By Lee Hudson
The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
A senior DOD official says a space-based interceptor to go after ballistic missiles is a “relatively easy technological challenge."
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Aerojet Rocketdyne expects to win its “fair share” of a potentially $5-6 billion amount of propulsion work for the DOD's GBSD program, a top executive says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is assessing how Lockheed Martin’s F-35 can be used to deliver kinetic weapons to aid with boost phase intercept.
Air Dominance

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab on Aug. 7 added 10 missions to its growing flight manifest for Electron, a small-satellite launcher.
Defense