Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Congress has adjourned until after the presidential election, having passed a temporary spending bill that funds ...

Brunswick Commercial & Government Products Inc., Edgewater, Florida, has been awarded a $72,000,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for ...

By Mark Carreau
The looming U.S. presidential election and the possibility of changes in Congress have many in the nation’s civil space community worried.
Space

By Jefferson Morris
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-R, is set to launch early next month.
Defense

The U.S. Army has no interest in arming its Boeing AH-64E Apache gunships with the MBDA dual-mode Brimstone ground attack missile.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Germany and France are to partner on the creation of a special mission unit flying the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
Defense

Karem Aircraft says its optimum-speed tiltrotor proposal for the U.S. Army’s upcoming Future Vertical Lift Medium does not need as much horsepower as its competitors.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin “will dominate the defense electronics market” in that order until almost 2025, Teal Group analysts predict.
Defense

View the Attack Helicopter MRO Demand by OEM 2016-2025 chart in PDF format.

RAYTHEON has U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract to develop a transition to production process to incorporate Gallium Nitride (GaN) components into AN/TPY-2 radars. LOCKHEED MARTIN was selected as preferred Combat System Integrator for Australia’s Future Submarine Program, subject to further discussion on commercial matters. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. has $30.8m U.S. Navy contract for MK 48 Mod 7 torpedo afterbody / tailcone sections, test equipment, production support material, engineering support, hardware repair support.

Stratview Research believes the global aerospace and defense C-Class parts market over the next five years will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.4% and be worth $12.1 billion by 2021. Hardware parts are expected to remain dominant, according to researchers, mainly driven by the demand of fasteners and bolts. Key manufacturers are Berkshire Hathaway’s Precision Casts Parts, Alcoa Global Fasteners, BE Aerospace, Eaton, Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Amphenol and Triumph Group’s Vought Aircraft Industries.

By Graham Warwick
NASA wants concepts for “objective vehicles” in several size classes and for demonstrators that would flight test electrified propulsion technology for one or more of these designs.

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By Thierry Dubois
The Proton Medium variant will use the standard Proton M configuration with six engines on the first stage.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA has agreed to pursue improvements in the agency’s handling of classified information, including the training of those responsible for overseeing self-inspection processes.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Korea Aerospace Industries expects to deliver two FA-50s to the Philippines this year, working toward filling an order for 12 of the light attack aircraft by next year.
Defense

By Jay Menon
An Indian air force Jaguar fighter crashed in western India on Oct. 3.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Australia has launched development of its future submarine class, contracting DCNS to proceed with detail design.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia is not looking to replace four Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) aircraft it has lost in crashes since 2010.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
AirTanker, the consortium created to deliver and operate the U.K. Royal Air Force’s (RAF) fleet of Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports, has declared itself fully operational after achieving its Full Service Date (FSD) milestone.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The British High Court has given permission for police to access U.K. Air Accident Investigation Board files relating to the crash of a vintage jet fighter at the Shoreham Airshow that killed 11 people.
Defense

NORTHROP GRUMMAN will build 10 additional MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters for U.S. Navy.

L-3 Communications has hired a retired three-star general once responsible for the F-35 program to be the senior vice president of strategy ...

Europe’s long mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko came to an end Sept. 30 when controllers deliberately crashed it into one of the deep “pits” on the object’s surface.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense and Space has performed the first receiver trials for its C295 twin-turboprop airlifter tanker kit.
Defense