Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

CAE has signed a pair of training services contracts worth more than C$1 billion ($760 million).

Airbus, which had a 49% stake in naval electronics firm Atlas Elektronik, is selling its interest to majority stakeholder ThyssenKrupp.

Islamic State terrorists are now using small drones to drop bombs on Iraqi security forces, a top U.S. Army commander in Iraq revealed.

TEXTRON has $206m U.S. Army Contractor Logistics Support contract for the 117 Shadow Tactical Aircraft Systems.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said Jan. 6 that the agency’s second—and now annual—drone symposium will be in March in the Washington, D.C., area.

The outgoing U.S. Navy secretary indicates President-elect Donald Trump’s ongoing pledge to reduce the cost of the F-35 by stoking competition using the F/A-18 is an empty one.

NASA safety advisors are urging the agency to proceed with caution before accepting SpaceX’s plan to load densified propellant into its Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a crew already on board in a Dragon capsule.

Thales Avionics is plotting an avionics development strategy where less is more.

The transition team that President-elect Donald Trump has named for NASA has “a very reasonable approach on climate change” and will proceed with the current program, says Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of French space agency CNES.

British air accident investigators looking into the cause of an unstable landing of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter onto a North Sea oil platform have focused their attention on a damaged tail rotor component.

New studies suggest the date for the formation of the Earth’s moon can be narrowed down to the first 60 million years following the birth of the Solar System.

Fleet pilots say the violent vertical oscillations seen during carrier launches of the U.S. Navy’s F-35 variant are a safety concern.

Sikorsky has called for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and tail rotor inspections of the S-92 utility helicopter following an incident on a North Sea offshore platform in December.

DELOITTE expects global aerospace and defense industry to return to growth with sector revenues estimated to grow at 2% in 2017.

On Thursday morning Senate Armed Services lawmakers consider the nomination of former Marine Gen. James Mattis to be the next U.S. secretary of defense.

Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $45,061,664 delivery order (P00001) to previously awarded contract FA8105-17-F-0003.

Beware Booz Allen Hamilton, General Electric (GE) and other federal providers with Pentagon contracts expiring in 2017: you, too, could come under the bull’s-eye of a Trump administration looking to make good on campaign promises to cut costs.

NASA’s planned Psyche mission to study a unique metallic main-belt asteroid will use spacecraft technology developed by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for geostationary communications satellites, including solar electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters that will allow the Discovery-class probe to orbit the distant body.

The Defense Department successfully demonstrated a mission with a swarm of Perdix micro-drones in October 2016, a video released Jan. 10 indicates.

The Pentagon has approved the release of Raytheon’s over-the-horizon Standard Missile-6 for international sales, the company announced Jan. 10.

Want to get on the radar of the relatively new head of Lockheed Martin’s $100 million venture capital effort? It might be easier than imagined.

Airbus Defense and Space and Leonardo have secured £680 million ($826.4 million) worth of support contracts from the UK defense ministry.

NASA must likely alter its risk mitigation strategy for spare parts as the agency pursues its human Mars exploration ambitions, experts say.

India has signed a satellite launch technology agreement with France to improve cooperation on future space launchers and an upcoming lunar rover mission.

AIRBUS has a £410m ($504m) UK defense ministry contract for support of Atlas A400M. BAE SYSTEMS has five-year U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract worth up to $49m for safeguarding sharing of sensitive information between networks belonging to the Pentagon, Intelligence Community, other government agencies.