Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

In the latest F-35 contract agreement, covering 90 aircraft, the price of all three variants is down significantly.

Diamond Aircraft has received an order for five training aircraft from Patria Aviation in Finland to be delivered this year.

In his first meeting with President Donald Trump, the U.S. Air Force chief told the new commander-in-chief that the service needs more people and resources to fulfill its missions at home and abroad.

NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft swooped close to Jupiter’s swirling cloud tops for a fourth time early Feb. 2.

As Northrop and Raytheon’s T-X ambitions fall apart, a new candidate has emerged: the Stavatti Aerospace Javelin.

Arconic, the Alcoa successor focusing on aerospace, defense and automotive OEMs, is the latest mid-tier industry provider to fall under the bull’s-eye of an activist investor.

Federal hardware and services provider Harris is facing many challenges these days, but the company increasingly has one thing going for it: classified businesses.

Federal hardware and services provider Harris is facing many challenges these days, but the company increasingly has one thing going for it: classified businesses.

CFM INTERNATIONAL INC. has $1.9b Defense Logistics Agency contract for F108 replenishment spare parts through Oct. 31, 2024.

Dutch national aerospace laboratory NLR has wind-tunnel tested South Korea’s indigenous Light Attack Helicopter.

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Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has joined NASA’s Advanced Composite Consortium.

Lockheed Martin is working with the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the stealth coating that allows the F-22 to fly undetected in enemy airspace.

Norwegian air accident investigators probing the loss of a CHC-operated Airbus H225 helicopter last April have begun focusing their attention on the certification aspects of the helicopter’s gearbox.

Bye Aerospace expects to fly the battery-electric Sun Flyer two-seat trainer in the first quarter and the solar-electric StartoAirNet optionally piloted aircraft in the second quarter.

The new CEO of startup XTI Aircraft says raising financing to advance development of the TriFan 600 vertical-takeoff-and-landing business aircraft is his first priority.

With Houston hosting the Super Bowl for the third time, NASA’s Johnson Space Center is taking the opportunity to showcase the agency’s Mars exploration ambitions to visiting football fans.

The South Korean navy will assign its eight Leonardo AW159 Wildcat helicopters to Incheon-class frigates.

India has increased its defense budget to 2.74 trillion rupees ($40.8 billion) for the fiscal year beginning April 1, an increase of about 6% over the previous year.

A UK-developed large quadrotor that can fly unmanned or manned is being flight tested by the U.S. Army as it develops requirements for a future joint tactical aerial resupply vehicle (JTARV).

Russia’s TsAGI central aerohydrodynamic institute has conducted low-speed wind tunnel testing of an integrated wing/body concept for a heavy transport aircraft.

BAE SYSTEMS will provide its LiteHUD head-up display for Textron AirLand’s multi-mission Scorpion jet.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ LightningStrike hybrid-electric, high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing flight demonstrator has been officially designated the XV-24A.

Analysis of a meteorite of Martian origin confirms the now-cold and desert-like Red Planet was volcanically active for at least 2 billion years, a research effort shows.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has directed his deputy to develop a supplemental budget request for fiscal 2017 that increases the Pentagon’s topline funding as well as long-term plans to build a “more lethal” force.