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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 21, 2015

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Programs

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U.S. Navy’s Triton Unmanned Aircraft Begins Radar Flights

Apr 20, 2015
Flight tests of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton’s main sensor, a 360-deg.-scan surveillance radar, have begun on the unmanned aircraft at the U.S. Navy’s NAS Patuxent River test center in Maryland.
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AgustaWestland Developing AW119 Training Program For U.S. Military

Apr 22, 2015
LONDON—AgustaWestland says it is in discussions with Bristow Group, flight training school Doss Aviation and Rockwell Collins to offer a turnkey…
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India To Launch Saarc Satellite In 2016

Apr 22, 2015
NEW DELHI—India is working with its neighbors to establish a dedicated satellite for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) region by next year to fulfill the requirement for satellite transponders for communication and weather forecasting.
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Australian PM Backs Continuous Warship Building

Apr 20, 2015
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s call for sustainable warship building removes a risk that the government could switch to ordering all ships for the Royal Australian Navy from abroad, giving up on the trouble-plagued industry.
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Antonov Rolls Out An-178 Airlifter

Apr 17, 2015
Ukraine’s aircraft manufacturer Antonov rolled out the first prototype of the An-178 transport aircraft on April 16. The first flight is scheduled for early May.
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U.S. Navy Aviation Center Augments Fire Scout Maintenance Training

Apr 22, 2015
The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) North Island recently received a second trainer to augment its MQ-8C Fire Scout…
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NASA’s Messenger Not Ready To Go Quietly

Apr 20, 2015
As it carries out its final orbits of the planet closest to the Sun, NASA’s Messenger Mercury mission leaves mounting intrigue over the Solar System’s early era, including the distribution of life’s precursors.
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India’s Second Moon Mission To Be Fully Homegrown

Apr 20, 2015
India’s second lunar exploration mission – Chandrayaan-2, to be launched during the next two to three years – will be completely indigenous, the country’s top scientist says.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Apr 22, 2015
FORECAST INTERNATIONAL predicts growth in regional Latin American defense market; spending is expected to increase over 2015-2019 by a compound…

In Brief

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HASC Defense Authorization Markup To Begin

Apr 22, 2015
This week the House Armed Services Committee begins its markup of the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, with subcommittees holding…

Operations

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U.S., ROK, Japan Tout Trilateral Talks

Apr 20, 2015
Officials from the U.S., Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan concluded “a productive and substantive security meeting” earlier this month in Washington, “to enhance trilateral defense cooperation in light of the evolving security environment in the region,” the Pentagon says.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts for the Week of April 13-17, 2015

Apr 22, 2015
Selected U.S. military contracts for April 13, 2015. U.S. ARMY Navistar Defense, Lisle, Illinois, was awarded a $17,522,057 firm-fixed-price…