Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Orbital ATK’s eighth NASA-contracted resupply mission to the ISS initiated the ambitious departure phase of a multifaceted, month-long orbital journey on Dec. 5.

Recent predictions of a still-growing $1 trillion global space economy by 2030 may not be out of step, one longtime expert in the field says.

Triumph Group said Dec. 4 it will combine its Aerospace Structures and Precision Components groups into one business unit come Jan. 1, 2018.

The U.S. Air Force planned to resume T-6 Texan II trainer flying operations at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, on Dec. 5 following hypoxia-like events.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has been using an experimental airliner to test a low-band radio frequency jamming pod for the U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler.

DOD spending on artificial intelligence, so-called Big Data and cloud-based services totaled $7.4 billion in fiscal 2017, a combined 32.4% jump over 2012.

The ICAO sent a state letter to its member countries to protect manned-aircraft operations from drones.

Qinetiq Target Services has completed a demonstration for the Royal Canadian Navy that involved emulating the risk posed to warships by multirotor drones.

Russia Post plans a drone delivery trial in 2018 using a heavy-lift unmanned aircraft developed by Kazan-based ARDN Technologies.

Israel Aerospace Industries is changing its strategy in the U.S. market to better deal with changing conditions.

The aerospace industry hopes to benefit from a four-year, $331.3 million government initiative to make the UK a leader in battery technology.

The U.S. Defense Department could conduct “kinetic” intercepts of North Korean or Iranian missiles with the F-35.

View the U.S. Defense Department Spending: Airborne Early Warning, C3 And ISR Aircraft FY16-FY18 ($K) chart in PDF format.

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PRATT & WHITNEY MILITARY ENGINES has $353.2m U.S. Navy contract for performance based logistics sustainment of F135 engines for F-35s for the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense participants, foreign military Sales customers.

China wants to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, and the U.S. should make sure to keep pace, according to the former deputy defense secretary.

Some analysts suspect U.S. defense budgets may be set up for a squeeze play by the early 2020s, while business aviation could feel an effect right away--good or bad.

The next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket that ULA is developing to succeed its Atlas and Delta platforms will be outfitted with avionics by L3 Technologies.

More-electric systems, engine-airframe integration and flight-deck apps are among new research projects to be backed by almost $73 million in UK government funding.

Research into a new class of materials that promise to “revolutionize aircraft construction” is being funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Airbus has taken a stake in uAvionix, a startup developing miniaturized ADS-B transceivers for detect-and-avoid in UAVs.

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to test an unmanned, disposable glider that can be launched from a transport aircraft to deliver supplies to ground forces.

Slovenia’s Pipistrel Aircraft has created a Chinese company to produce the Alpha Electro and Panthera electric-powered light aircraft.

The possible foreign military sale of ordnance, equipment and services worth $415 million for a Singaporean training detachment of Boeing F-15s in Idaho has been OK'd.

BOEING’s P-8A Poseidon aircrew training system commenced delivery to Australia.