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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 24, 2016

VOL. 256 NO. 38 May 24, 2016
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Programs

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Boeing Looks To SLAP Super Hornets Into Shape

May 23, 2016
With the U.S. Navy using its F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets more rigorously than initially expected, Boeing has started preliminary assessments of what is needed to overhaul the aircraft, increase its combat life and keep it relevant much later into this century.
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India Tests Reusable Launch Vehicle Prototype

May 23, 2016
India has successfully launched the first test model of its indigenously developed Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), aimed at reducing the cost of future space missions.
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F-35s Make First Eastbound Transatlantic Crossing

May 23, 2016
A pair of Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters have completed the first-ever eastbound transatlantic crossing by the new fighter.
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AeroVironment Develops Tethered Counter-Terror UAS

May 23, 2016
The Tether Eye is designed to act as a virtual observation tower to provide 24-hr.-a-day surveillance for security at strategic infrastructure or forward bases.
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OSIRIS-REx In Florida For September Asteroid Sample Mission

May 23, 2016
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, newly arrived at its Florida launch site, faces a round of end-of-the-month ground tests at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a planned Sept. 8 liftoff on the nation’s first attempt to retrieve a sample from an asteroid and return the material to Earth.
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Kepler Offers Insights Into Early Earth Life

May 23, 2016
Best known for its prowess at finding and characterizing hundreds of extrasolar planets, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is offering new insight into possible processes that enabled early Earth to generate the chemistry and climate necessary for biological activity.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

May 25, 2016
AAR AIRLIFT GROUP has $33.5m, nine-month contract extension to provide maintenance, logistics & flight ops for ...

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Washington

May 25, 2016
On Tuesday morning the House Appropriations Committee will mark up the fiscal 2017 spending bill that contains ...

Business

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U.S. Navy Tackles Hypoxia With Training Equipment

May 23, 2016
The U.S. Navy has integrated the Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device into aviation hypoxia training as a bridge to a more permanent system.
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Bombardier CEO Hopeful of Canadian Government Investment

May 24, 2016
Garnering an investment from the Canadian Federal Government is a “complex” proposition and Bombardier is “working” on it, although timing is uncertain, according to CEO and president Alain Bellemare.

Funding & Policy

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CSBA: Shorter-Range Missile Defense Equals Bigger Savings

May 23, 2016
The U.S. Navy could save money by shifting its missile-salvo defensive anti-air warfare (AAW) strategy away from long-range interceptors and toward medium-range surface-to-air interceptors, hypervelocity projectiles, directed energy weapons and electronic warfare systems, the CSBA says.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts, Week of May 16-20, 2016

May 25, 2016
The Boeing Co., Seattle, is being awarded $19,631,293 cost-plus-fixed-fee, ceiling-priced, letter requirements contract for the repair coverage ...