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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 20, 2016

VOL. 256 NO. 14 April 20, 2016
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Business

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OneWeb Taps Florida Space Coast For New Smallsat Production Facility

Apr 19, 2016
Startup spacecraft manufacturer OneWeb Satellites has selected an industrial park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as home to a clean-sheet production facility that will crank out dozens of small broadband satellites each month.
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UMS Skeldar Looks At Manufacturing Ops In India

Apr 18, 2016
UMS Skeldar, the newly-formed joint venture between Saab and Swiss UAV company UMS Aero, is looking to establish a manufacturing facility in India to tap into the Asian and Southeast Asian market.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Apr 20, 2016
AIRBUS HELICOPTERS’ H215 Super Puma is kicking off three-week demo tour of ...

In Brief

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FAA Reauthorization Passes Senate

Apr 20, 2016
The Senate passed the FAA Reauthorization Act by a vote of 95 ...

Programs

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Aurora Flies Subscale Darpa VTOL X-Plane

Apr 18, 2016
Aurora Flight Sciences has flown a subscale model of its LightningStrike hybrid-electric distributed propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) experimental aircraft, selected in March to be Darpa’s high-speed VTOL X-Plane.

Technology

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Unmanned Sub Hunter Spotlights Future Priorities

Apr 19, 2016
The christening of a futuristic unmanned sub-hunting vessel is a harbinger of things to come, Pentagon officials say.
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New Dawn Images Feature Ceres’ Bright Craters

Apr 19, 2016
Bright features that hint at the presence of a briny subsurface water source leap from fresh images of the cratered terrain of the large main belt asteroid Ceres, which is undergoing unprecedented orbital scrutiny from NASA’s Dawn mission spacecraft.

Funding & Policy

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Chinese Behavior The Issue In Asia-Pacific, Carter Says

Apr 19, 2016
While the U.S. is sending signals in the Asia-Pacific region with some of its more recent actions there, it is Chinese behavior that should be called into question, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.

Operations

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U.S., Australia Practice Close Air Support

Apr 19, 2016
The U.S. Navy “Eagles” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115 concluded three weeks of close air support exercises earlier this month with the Australian Defense Force.
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USAF Sends Largest Deployment Of Raptors To Europe

Apr 19, 2016
The U.S. Air Force has sent 12 F-22 Raptors to Europe in the largest deployment of the type yet to the region.
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Enemy Missiles Threat To U.S. Forces, Army Says

Apr 19, 2016
Air-launched weapons and other missiles are becoming a greater threat to U.S. forces, says a new Army manual on gathering and using intelligence on such threats.
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Unmanned Operations Highlight Countermine Tactics

Apr 19, 2016
Sailors aboard USS Sentry (MCM 3) successfully piloted an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) mounted with live explosives to destroy a training mine.