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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, February 16, 2015

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Programs

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USAF Scrambles To Plan For F-35 IOC Maintainers

Feb 13, 2015
Senior U.S. Air Force officials remain confident the service will achieve its plan to declare initial operational capability (IOC) for the F-35A by the end of December 2016, though doing so is presenting a major challenge in maintenance resourcing.
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Boeing May Be Forced To Hike Prices Of Apache, Chinook For India

Feb 13, 2015
India's defense ministry has been asking for extensions, a Boeing India executive says. "We did provide them as and when appropriate," he says. "It is not always possible to keep extending, because we live in a world where we feel inflationary pressure."
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Lawmakers Cite Need For Commercial Satellite Weather Data

Feb 13, 2015
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), chairman of the environmental subcommittee, said the nation can ill afford lapses in weather-satellite coverage. "Instead of continuing down the path of large government-owned satellites that are prone to cost overruns and delays, we must look outside the box for new methods of providing essential weather data," he said.
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BAE To Support South Pacific F-35s In Australia

Feb 13, 2015
BAE expects to expand its operation at RAAF Williamtown, Newcastle, for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrades of F-35 airframes. "Depending on the customer’s requirements, new infrastructure may be required at our facility in Williamtown," a BAE spokeswoman says.
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Virgin Galactic Selects Long Beach For LauncherOne

Feb 13, 2015
The work will be undertaken in a 150,000-sq.-ft. building that Virgin will lease in Douglas Park, an industrial area on the north side of Long Beach airport built on land formerly occupied by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.
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Fort Worth Checks Out Fine In Singapore

Feb 06, 2015
Fort Worth got underway from Singapore on Feb. 2 after completing its first six-day scheduled preventive maintenance period during an initial 16-month rotational deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region
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Quickstep Composites Technology Possible For F-35

Feb 13, 2015
The F-35 program has no firm plan to shift to Quickstep’s glycol-based production method. But Quickstep, with Lockheed Martin’s support, has run tests on hundreds of pieces made with the process.
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Dhruv Helo Crash Could Set Back Export Ambitions

Feb 13, 2015
The 5.5-ton, twin-engine Dhruv, manufactured by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), has been clocking a worrisome safety record recently, with three accidents in less than a month.
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General Dynamics Appoints Replacements For Retiring Execs

Feb 14, 2015
General Dynamics announced Feb. 13 that Larry R. Flynn, president of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., will succeed Joseph T. Lombardo as executive vice president of the company’s Aerospace group when Lombardo retires in June. Mark L. Burns, president of product support for Gulfstream, will succeed Flynn. Meanwhile, M. Amy Gilliland, vice president for human resources, will succeed Walter M. Oliver as General Dynamics’ senior vice president for human resources and administration when Oliver retires next month.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Feb 14, 2015
ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES and ALPHA DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES teamed to supply mini-UASs, including IAI’s Bird-Eye 400 and 650, in India; system production will take place in India, while marketing will be a joint effort between the companies. ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES delivered its first T-38 replacement wing to USAF; program calls for up to 200 shipsets. RAYTHEON IIS has $270m U.S. Navy contract to provide V-22 systems, testing and software out of Indianapolis.

Notice To Readers

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Holiday Note

Feb 14, 2015
In observance of the Presidents Day holiday in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Monday, Feb. 16. The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Feb. 18.

Forecast & Data

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The Tale Of The Unclaimed T-X Aggressor

Feb 13, 2015
In the midst of a major budget crunch at the Pentagon, the Air Force is ill-equipped to explain just how a request for $220.5 million for a “red air” aggressor aircraft got into the fiscal 2016 budget plan sent to Congress Feb. 2.

Calendar of Events

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Upcoming Events

Feb 14, 2015
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Feb. 19-20 — The Society of Experimental Test Pilots 8th Annual Southeast Section Symposium, Valparaiso, Florida. For more information go to www.setp.org/southeast/8th-annual-southeast-section-symposium-click-here-to-register.html