Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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BOEING has $1.5b U.S. Navy contract for life cycle upgrades of F/A-18A/B, C/D, E/F and EA-18G aircraft for the Navy and foreign military sales customers.

Liebherr Aerospace & Transportation has partnered with automotive giant General Motors to develop a fuel-cell auxiliary power unit (APU) for future single-aisle aircraft.

Airbus has handed over the first public service versions of its H175 super-medium twin-engine helicopter to launch customer Hong Kong Government Flying Service.

So far, so good for NASA when it comes to 2019 U.S. congressional appropriations in support of a White House directive to return to the Moon.

A U.S. DOD decision to transition the Afghan Air Force from the Russian-built Mi-17 to U.S.-made Black Hawk helos has been criticized in a congressional report.

The Polish defense ministry says it is still actively pursuing the purchase of new utility helicopters to replace Soviet-era models, but it says air defense and naval requirements have taken a priority.

India’s national space agency is hoping to launch its next mission—an Earth observation satellite and up to 30 small satellite co-passengers—in August.

ROLLS-ROYCE plans to lay off 4,600 workers over the next two years as part of preannounced restructuring, with most cuts in the UK.

Hamburg is the latest city to join an urban air mobility (UAM) initiative supported by the European Commission and led by Airbus.

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The trade spat between the world’s largest economies and aviation marketplaces is revving up.

An industry consortium aiming to standardize on-orbit satellite servicing technologies says it has figured out how to work together.

Darpa is tackling the next seemingly unstoppable peril—hypersonic weapons being developed and deployed by Russia and China.

The occasion of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ 75th anniversary celebration on June 14 came during a time of transition for its leadership.

India’s home-developed Rustom-2, a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV meant to strengthen homeland security, will be ready for military deployment by 2020.

KONGSBERG has NOK525m ($65m) order from LOCKHEED MARTIN for rudders and vertical leading edges for 150 LRIP 11 F-35s.

India’s national space agency has gotten the go-ahead to develop a semi-cryogenic engine capable of powering the country’s heaviest rocket.

NASA astronauts have installed two high-def cameras outside the ISS's U.S. segment that will monitor the agency’s Commercial Crew Program spacecraft.

Northrop has received a contract worth up to $189.2 million to support four RQ-4A Block 10 unmanned aircraft for up to another 42 months.

The German defense ministry has signed off on a leasing arrangement with Airbus to operate the IAI Heron TP medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV.

NASA’s directorates are striving by September to reach a consensus on preliminary requirements for the human-tended Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.

The EU has rejected Britain’s requests to maintain industrial involvement and use the PRS signal of the Galileo sat navigation system after exiting the union.

Satellite and wireless networking services provider Viasat has bought Horsebridge Defense and Security, a support company for deployable secure networks.