Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin has confirmed its choice of a modernized Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced trainer competition.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Boeing’s stock price closed down almost 7% on Feb. 11 in volatile trading on Wall Street after investors digested a list of relatively negative headlines regarding the OEM and prime defense contractor.
Defense

By Guy Norris
NASA plans to expand tests of morphing flap technology on a modified Gulfstream III to assess the effect on aircraft noise as well as the potential lift and load shifting benefits from axially twisting the flap to different angles from one end to the other.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
BAE is looking at giving its Hawk jet trainer a second lease on life as a light attack aircraft.
Defense

The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 budget request includes a notable increase in the number of ship- and aircraft-fired missile that starts a solid inventory growth over the future year’s defense plan (FYDP).
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Swedish aerospace firm Saab has enjoyed a bumper year of growth thanks to significant contracts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Swing-Role Surveillance System (SRSS) and from Brazil’s partnership with the Gripen fighter.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
U.S. Air Force F-35As have arrived in Idaho for a month-long simulated deployment, a key test to prepare the aircraft for its interim operational capability declaration later this year.
Defense

While the U.S. Marines are figuring out how to evolve their aviation operations to match MV-22 Osprey’s abilities, the Corps is looking to the Special Operation Forces (SOF) to work out some kinks in the tiltrotor aircraft’s communications,
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Canada is ending its combat role in the air war against the Islamic State group, stopping airstrikes by its CF-18 aircraft by Feb. 22, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The management of NASA’s highest funded field center, Johnson Space Center (JSC), believes it can meet expectations under the agency’s proposed 2017 budget.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon is asking for $1.2 billion over the next five years to create a “next-generation” launch system program that would include developing propulsion systems.
Defense

With F-35 delays and continued expanded reliance on F-18 aircraft, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are working hard to make the legacy Hornets last much longer than they were meant to, budget documents show.
Defense

ViaSat Inc. has pulled the plug on a launch this year of the ViaSat-2 Ka-band satellite atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and will instead loft the 6,400-kg satellite on an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket in early 2017.
Defense

Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
Defense

Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
Defense

U.K. DEFENSE MINISTRY announced $290m package for further design work for its ...

The U.S. Air Force plans to award a sole-source follow-on contract to Northrop Grumman to operate ....

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FINLAND approved $78m proposal to buy LOCKHEED MARTIN Guide ...

This week the U.S. federal government releases its fiscal 2017 budget request ...

Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, is being awarded $64,515,889 for modification P00004 to a ...

The savings will also help preserve budgets for the new T-X trainer and the Joint Stars Recapitalization (JStars Recap) program, both of which were threatened with delay.
Defense

The U.S. Army’s aviation spending request for fiscal 2017 is $3.6 billion, down more than $2 billion from the $5.9 billion in the defense bill approved by Congress last year. However, it remains the largest segment of the Army’s $15.1 billion procurement request.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
As much as RDT&E may look like a relative winner in budget plans, procurement plans have been scaled back to help meet overall Pentagon budget caps.
Defense