Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Inadequate funding is exacerbating the low serviceability of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), the head of the service said.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
TransDigm has signed a new master contract agreement with leading customer Boeing.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The director of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office is following through on his promise to disrupt the way the military does business in space.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
As many as six new aviation companies will be invited to pitch their businesses to potential investors, partners and others at a San Francisco conference.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $22.3m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead material and work to support fiscal 2019 Trident II missile production schedule.

This week the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Utah State University’s 32nd annual Smallsat conference is underway in Logan, Utah.

Security Signals Inc., Cordova, Tennessee, was awarded a $62,207,375 firm-fixed-price foreign military sales (Taiwan) contract for the procurement of the Family of Hand Held Signal.

By Jen DiMascio
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Aug. 7 he supports creating a combatant command for space.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The fleet leader of SpaceX’s growing cadre of reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 boosters will launch for an unprecedented third time later this year, following its second successful launch and landing early Aug. 7.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), now designated the AGM-183A hypersonic missile.
Air Dominance

By Michael Bruno
Consulting company Frost & Sullivan says it expects launch demand for smallsats to increase to 11,740 units total by 2030 with revenue reaching $70.1 billion.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Maxar Technologies has now landed in the bull’s-eye of short-seller Spruce Point Capital Management, an activist investor.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Strategic Command Chief Air Force Gen. John Hyten says he wishes the DOD would have invested more funding in hypersonics tech five years ago.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Switzerland-based Astrocast has signed a contract with Italy’s D-Orbit for a ride-share launch aboard Europe’s Vega rocket.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts has established a Naval Agility Campaign Task Force to elevate and scale policies, tools, practices and training.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon has opened a facility on its Massachusetts-based campus that includes advanced automation technology to support complex radar testing and integration.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has made its second investment in metal additive manufacturing through its HorizonX ventures unit.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A National Academies assessment of NASA’s Planetary Science Program urges the space agency to pick up the pace of small and medium-priced missions.
Defense

By Bill Carey
There were 25% fewer instances of drones interfering with wildland firefighting efforts as of July when compared to the same time last year, the DOI says.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Low-cost launch start-up company Relativity Space plans to accelerate development of its Terran 1 small satellite mid-size launch vehicle by introducing an even larger 3D printer to augment its manufacture.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Army is looking for space and missile defense research into many topics, including “tactically responsive space.”
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
A test of a Chinese hypersonic wave-rider on Aug. 3 was in part aimed at demonstrating a new thermal conduction system and booster-payload separation under high dynamic pressure.
Defense

SIERRA NEVADA CORP. has $12.5m U.S. Navy contract for work on AN/SPN-35D automated landing system radar design maturation, integration and testing.

Weapons sales bolstered defense-company revenues in the second quarter, and the trend is continuing.

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX on Aug. 7 plans to demonstrate the first reuse of a Falcon 9 Block 5 booster.
Defense