Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS) has embarked on India’s first private-sector defense subsystems manufacturing facility. KRAS, a joint venture between Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and India’s Kalyani Group, is part of the “Make in India” initiative to increase foreign direct investment while increasing employment for Indian workers. Israel and India have long had strong defense ties. This year, India has signed deals for the purchase of almost $2 billion of missiles from Israeli companies.
The directive comes after three Marines died in an MV-22 crash off Australia’s east coast Aug. 5. Last month, 15 Marines and one sailor were killed when their KC-130T crashed.
A Goddard-built cubesat is intended to test if a center with expertise in building large, expensive spacecraft can accomplish some big science in a small package.
The commander of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Arizona, says he believes psychology has played a role in a recent spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents on F-35As.
HARRIS CORP. delivered third of 10 advanced navigation payloads to LOCKHEED MARTIN, to be integrated into GPS III Space Vehicle 3 this summer. BOEING has $14.9m U.S. Navy contract to incorporate Early Warning Self Protection 6th sensor engineering change proposal into 11 P-8A Poseidon low-rate initial production Lot 4 aircraft. Work complete February 2019.
Russian-owned Rostec Corp. and Indonesia’s Enterprises State Trading Company have agreed to cooperate on the sale of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to Indonesia, according to Rostec.
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne report completion of ground testing of the fourth controller for the four RS-25 liquid hydrogen/oxygen rocket engines that are to power the Space Launch System core stage of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 test launch.
Ensuring that autonomous systems that learn as they operate remain safe as they acquire knowledge through their lifetimes is the challenge to be tackled by Darpa’s new Assured Autonomy program.
Engineered Propulsion Systems has tested its Graflight Flat 8 diesel aero-engine at the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center as it advances toward FAA certification.
SPACE SYSTEMS LORAL completed preliminary design review for NASA’s Restore-L satellite servicing mission to provide satellite servicing in LEO following 2020 launch. GENERAL ELECTRIC AVIATION has $13.5m U.S. Navy contract for 369 A51 Aircraft Component Power Plant Change modification kits in support of the F/A-18 C/D Hornet F404 engine Component Improvement Program.
Airbus’s nascent Voom on-demand helicopter service has partnered with ride-hailing company Cabify to provide passengers with ground transportation to and from heliports, beginning in Sao Paulo.
U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves says America’s ballistic missile defense system is ready to handle a ballistic missile raid by North Korea.
Ad Astra Rocket Co. reports achieving a 10-hr. milestone of accumulated firings of its VX-200SS prototype Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket at the 100-kW level.
