Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, October 27, 2014

LONDON—Ascent Flight Training, the consortium that runs the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Military Flight Training System (MFTS), has selected the Affinity Group as the preferred bidder for the MFTS program’s aircraft service provider program. Affinity, itself a consortium of Elbit Systems and KBR, will provide new aircraft fleets for elementary flying training, multi-engine training and basic flying training. Affinity plans to provide basic flying training, currently carried out on the Shorts Tucano or the Beechcraft T-6C Texan II.

The U.S. Air Force continues to rely on the legacy rubidium clocks included in the GPS IIF satellites manufactured by Boeing—rather than newer cesium…

The recently commissioned amphibious assault ship LHA 6 USS America and its sister ship Tripoli now under construction provide an aviation-centric…

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – As U.S. Navy officials continue to sound warnings about the future funding needed for Ohio-class replacement submarines, the…

NEW DELHI—The Indian navy will start taking delivery of the first batch of Israeli-made Barak-I missiles from 2015 to arm its frontline battleships,…

Though Boeing insists it will be able to provide the U.S. Air Force with the 18 KC-46 Pegasus tankers it has promised by August 2017, flight of the first platform continues to inch to the right.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $207.3 million contract modification for procurement of four Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ator) low-rate initial production systems.

Cobham’s new 12-year, roughly $563 million contract to provide airborne search-and-rescue capability for Australia should add about 1% to the British-based company’s top line, RBC Capital Markets analysts said Oct. 24 after the deal was unveiled.

ELBIT SYSTEMS, Israel, has 3-year contract from an unidentified Asian customer to perform avionics upgrade for its F-5s. RAYTHEON UK and THALES UK…

The European intergovernmental security organization charged with monitoring the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has begun operations with Scheibel…

Name: Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Surface-to-Surface Missile

To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 27-31 — EuroNaval 2014, 24th International Naval Defense & Maritime Exhibition & Conference, Paris Le Bourget, France. For more information go to www.euronaval.fr/wp_exposants/enag/ Oct. 28-30 — Future Mortar Systems, Kensington Close Hotel, London, United Kingdom. For more information go to www.future-mortars.co.uk/