Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Army National Guard intends to be a “full player” in the next-generation Chinook and Future Vertical Lift programs.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Harris Corp. celebrated the delivery since 2001 of more than 1 million avionics components to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II fighter during a ceremony April 26.
Defense

After a false start, the service has begun engaging with the 103-member Vertical Lift Consortium about how best to replace its long-serving Beechcraft C-12 Huron and Fairchild C-26 Metroliner fleets.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, and French counterpart Florence Parly approved the sign-off of a joint set of requirements drawn up between the two countries during the ILA Airshow here April 26.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
In addition to expendable rockets, Congress may require the Pentagon to consider reusable rockets such as those from SpaceX and Blue Origin for military launches.
Space

To defeat near-peer threats, the U.S. must break down traditional barriers between services and hierarchy of command, according to the man charged with building the Army's Multi-Domain Battle concept, Brig. Gen. Mark Odom.
Defense

House lawmakers have moved to block the U.S. Air Force’s proposal to kill a planned replacement for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System.
Defense

Boeing will now submit the resulting data and reports to the FAA for review.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Contracts to SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada for cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning in late 2019 are costing NASA more than twice what it paid under the first round of Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) awards, according to NASA's Inspector General.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
The Sentinel-3B satellite, part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program, was successfully launched April 25 by a Rockot vehicle from Plesetsk, Russia.
Space

“We’re all-in, if we can get that capability at the appropriate cost," the vice chief of the Army says of Future Vertical Lift.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon is seeing its bottom line rise as the U.S. government turns once again to Cold War-style defense technologies.
Defense

The winning engine will replace GE’s T700 in the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60M/V Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64E Apache, and also could power the next generation of clean-sheet military rotorcraft in the lightweight category of Future Vertical Lift.
Defense

UTC Aerospace Systems is positioning itself as a key supplier for legacy U.S. Army helicopter upgrades and next-generation, clean-sheet designs.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $8.5m U.S. Air Force contract for Small Diameter Bomb Increment II.

For the first quarter of 2018 Boeing reported several better-than-expected results—revenue beat by 5.1% compared with Wall Street’s consensus expectations.

Bell expects the V-280 Valor to meet all the key performance parameters set by the U.S. Army under the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator initiative “by the end of summer.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

A militarized derivative of the Glasair Aviation Sportsman monoplane, the Huntsman is being actively marketed for “gray zone” operations in places like Central Africa where there are few or no U.S. forward operating bases.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Up for grabs is a potential 90-aircraft order replacing on a one-for-one basis Germany’s Tornado IDS strike aircraft, and the smaller ECR electronic warfare version of the jet.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Boeing has teamed with ten German companies who will provide training, support and sustainment if the Chinook wins Germany’s STH heavy-lift helicopter competition.
Defense

MEGGIT has contract from KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES for advanced wheel and digital braking system for KF-X fighter.

The global space industry is worth $360 billion now but is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6% to $558 billion by 2026.

View the Program Dossier: KAI T-50 document in PDF format.

The House Armed Services tactical air and land subcommittee’s markup of the defense policy bill, released April 25, would require the Navy to make several hardware modifications to the F/A-18s to reduce the occurrence of, and mitigate the risk posed by, hypoxia-like physiological episodes.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Prime defense contractor Northrop Grumman continued its “disciplined” no-bid strategy on two Pentagon programs in the first quarter of 2018.
Defense