Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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By Guy Norris
As part of its plan to field a Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demo, NASA has issued a call for interested companies to submit a “capability statement.”
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has released a detailed scientific assessment of a potential mission to the intriguing Jovian moon Europa that would touch down on the icy moon in 2031.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Some production work resumed amid recovery activities at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 13, six days after a tornado swept across the 829-acre, 81-facility site.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Turkish government has signed off on a development program for an indigenous turboshaft engine that could eventually go on to power Turkey’s T129 attack helicopter and future utility rotorcraft.
Defense

By Jay Menon
State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) has unveiled the design of its 10-ton-class Indian Multi Role Helicopter (IMRH).
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to Mars.
Defense

BAE SYSTEMS has $26.7m U.S. Navy contract to definitize USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) fiscal 2017 phased maintenance availability undefinitized contract action.

To “dig out” from the U.S. military’s readiness problems, the vice chiefs of the services and more than a few lawmakers want to scrap Budget Control Act spending caps on defense and nondefense spending.

View the Forecast Friday: Western Fighter Aircraft Retirements 2017-2026 chart in PDF format.

The U.S. Marine Corps is keenly interested in pairing all of its manned aircraft with unmanned combat and multi-mission UAVs.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesian military police have impounded a Leonardo AW101 pending an investigation into the circumstances surrounding its acquisition.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The lobbying group for France’s aerospace industry has released annual performance numbers earlier than planned, reacting to recent negative comments about the contribution of the industry to France’s 2016 balance of trade.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Taiwan will develop a version of its F-CK-1 Chingkuo fighter as an advanced trainer, rejecting local manufacturing of a foreign design.
Defense

A panel of aerospace and defense analysts has proposed ditching the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing 747-8-based Air Force One in favor of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber, or a less-costly militarized Boeing 737 fleet.
Defense

By Jay Menon
Boeing sees its F/A-18 Super Hornet as an ideal fit for the Indian navy’s requirement for approximately 57 Multi-Role Carrier Borne Fighters.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s embrace of cloud computing has been slowed by weaknesses that leave some data stored in cloud environments at risk, an inspector general's audit says.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks is to develop an embedded electronically scanned antenna for Ka-band inflight connectivity under a joint project with Airbus.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $202.2m U.S. Army contract for engineering services for the Patriot weapon systems program through Jan. 31, 2018.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush is a 2017 inductee into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.

By Graham Warwick
Orbital ATK has filed a lawsuit against Darpa to halt a satellite servicing program underway at the research agency.

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first LM-100J Super Hercules commercial freighter version of the C-130J military airlifter.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Despite facing a lawsuit seeking to block procurement, Darpa has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) demonstration.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Orbital ATK has filed a lawsuit against Darpa to halt a program it alleges would unlawfully subsidize the creation of a commercial competitor to the satellite servicing capability it is developing with private investment.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has begun flight trials of the third prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor as it targets certification of the high-speed rotary-wing aircraft by 2018.
Aircraft & Propulsion