Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer believes the department can reduce the timeline to get new equipment on contract by as much as 50%.

The U.S. National Laboratory portion of the International Space Station is host to a growing commercial research and development interest.

The UK Space Agency announced Dec. 7 it was committing £200,000 ($269,000) for four new business incubators to try to help grow Britain’s space industry.

Even before Dassault delivers the first Rafale fighter to Qatar in 2018, the country has ordered another 12 aircraft.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will remain aboard the International Space Station for at least another three years under a fixed-price contract.

Raytheon is forming a formal subsidiary for its work in the United Arab Emirates, executives announced Dec. 7.

Already long delayed, the NASA-led, $8.8 billion, 5- to 10-year James Webb Space Telescope mission could face additional schedule setbacks and cost issues.

Global Aviation Technologies will update 19 C-21A jets, the military designation for the Learjet 35A, for the U.S. Air Force.

Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 40 returned to service on Dec 6 after a 14-month repair and refurbishment following an explosion on the pad.

AEROJET ROCKETDYNE, INC. appointed Steve Warren chief communications officer.

President Donald Trump has tapped former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin to be under secretary of defense for research and engineering, effective Feb. 1.

Aerospace veterans see it coming: the transition of low Earth orbit activities to a commercially dominated landscape.

Spirit AeroSystems plans to add 1,000 jobs and invest $1 billion over the next five years at its Wichita headquarters.

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 appears to have emerged the real winner from Boeing’s rift with Canada over Bombardier’s C Series passenger jetliner.

Adding to the scores of similar projects already in the works, Erik Lindbergh—grandson of Charles Lindbergh and long-time advocate for electric flight—has formed a company to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.

Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter took off with a new engine for the first time, according to United Aircraft Corp.

Boeing, General Electric and the U.S. Army are planning to fly a CH-47 Chinook fitted with the T408 turboshaft from the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion.

Northrop Grumman has been performing flight demonstrations with a new foldout UAV that could someday drop from the Boeing EA-18G Growler.

Israel wants more Israeli-developed weapon and electronic warfare systems on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Adir stealth fighters.

India has successfully test-launched the newest version of its homegrown Akash supersonic surface-to-air missile.

BOEING has $8.3m U.S. Air Force contract for F-15 APG-82 version 1 radar modernization program radar upgrades.

Wednesday afternoon the House Science, Space and Technology committee will review NASA’s next four large telescope projects with witnesses including Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate.

Honeywell International Inc., Glendale, Arizona, has been awarded a $10,524,256 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to conduct innovative research and development.

Boeing’s first KC-46 Pegasus tanker slated for delivery to the U.S. Air Force made its first flight Dec. 5, and the aircraft won’t be delivered until 2018.