Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Navy is still on course to establish a new Information Warfare Development Center (IWDC) in early 2017, says Rear Adm. Matthew J. Kohler Naval Information Forces commander.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN and U.S. Navy delivered fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral.

The UAE armed forces signed a $346 million contract to buy eight P.1HH HammerHead UAVs.

The Northrop Grumman-led team chosen last year to provide the U.S. Air Force’s first Long-range Strike Bombers ...

The engine is scheduled to help launch the first crew in an Orion capsule as early as 2021.
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By Jen DiMascio
The cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine is likely to come down because the U.S. Air Force chose Pratt & Whitney to make the engine for the B-21 bomber, says the chief of the F-35 program.
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By Tony Osborne
U.K. and U.S. personnel will soon begin planning for the trans-Atlantic deployment of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to the U.K. in preparation for the type’s debut at two U.K. air shows this summer.
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By Jay Menon
India has successfully launched its sixth navigation satellite, accomplishing a major step toward developing the country’s own network to help provide location within the country and bordering regions.
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By Tony Osborne
Investigators probing the fatal crash of a former military fighter jet at the Shoreham Airshow last year said show organizers were unaware of the aircraft’s planned display routine.
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Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon 5X business jet will not enter service until the first half of 2020 due to difficulties in developing the Silvercrest engine at Safran’s Snecma motors division.
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By Bradley Perrett
Taiwan’s next advanced trainer will be indigenously developed, Defense Minister Kao Kuang-chi has told members of parliament.
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By Jay Menon
The Laser Cross Section Measurement & Imaging System, or LACSMI, will help ensure Indian warships, tanks and other platforms are harder for laser and infrared guided bombs and missiles to hit.
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The sailors of DDG 78 USS Porter, a guided missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully completed a live-fire test from a SeaRAM missile system earlier this month.
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U.S. Navy engineers have developed a new 1,000-lb. inertial actuator, or "ship shaker," that offers “unprecedented capability in full-scale testing,” the service says.
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The U.S. Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in exercise Ssang Yong 16 (SY16) earlier this month in and around Pohang, South Korea with local forces and those from Australia and New Zealand, the Navy says.
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PRATT & WHITNEY’s F135 engine for F-35 is undergoing sea-level corrosion testing...

Singapore Technology Aerospace (ST Aero) has built a proof-of-concept unmanned hybrid vehicle (UHV) that can be ...

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer – United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) – has completed a reorganization of its top management.
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Europe’s LISA Pathfinder gravitational-wave technology demonstrator was handed over to the European Space Agency (ESA) March 7 after undergoing a series of in-orbit tests led by industrial prime contractor Airbus Defense and Space.
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As the Pentagon considers its options for aerial electronic attack, the focus is shifting toward the improvement of one of the primary sensors for the mission.
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A European Ariane 5 ECA rocket successfully lifted the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on March 9 for Paris-based fleet operator Eutelsat.
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By Mark Carreau
A key French instrument for NASA’s Mars InSight Lander will be re-engineered in a bid to overcome a vacuum leak in time for a May 2018 launch attempt.
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The U.S. needs to continue developing and deploying more longer-range surface-to-surface missiles in the Asia-Pacific, and there is a shortage of submarine forces in the region as well, says Adm. Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command.
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AEROJET ROCKETDYNE completed series of hot-fire tests of RL10 upper-stage rocket engine.

This week the Satellite 2016 conference gets underway outside Washington.