Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, July 4, 2016

Three Lockheed Martin F-35As have joined their Marine Corps and British F-35B counterparts at RAF Fairford.

After years of massive cost overruns and schedule delays, Raytheon’s next-generation GPS ground-control segment is now facing a new round of trouble – a Pentagon review about whether the program should continue.

The first reset CH-53E Super Stallion is complete at Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina, the U.S. Marine Corps says.

Fifth-generation fighter jets are massive data hubs, designed with advanced sensors that vacuum in critical threat information and disseminate it all over the world.

Cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station successfully re-docked an unmanned Progress cargo capsule early July 1, successfully demonstrating an ungraded Russian manual docking system.

The convoluted story of U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) acquisition of unmanned aircraft surveillance services has a new chapter.

GE AVIATION has $919m contract and PRATT & WHITNEY has $873m contract under U.S. Air Force Adaptive Engine Transition Program. Companies will built and test multiple complete, flight-weight centerline, 45,000 lb-thrust turbofan adaptive engines. BOEING has $71.6m contract for P-8A Increment 3 Block I capabilities—Link 16, Harpoon II+ Missile, integrated broadcast system receiver and filtering, high frequency radio system improvements, targeting improvements, narrowband satcom—for U.S. Navy and Government of Australia.

Raytheon and Thales have modified their ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) joint venture to focus exclusively on the delivery of NATO Air Command and Control and Theater and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems. The ground-based radars and non-NATO BMD-related air command and control systems currently within the TRS portfolio will transition to their parent companies. The U.S. operations of the former TRS LLC will become a subsidiary or Raytheon Command and Control Solutions, and the former TRS SAS operations in France will become a Thales subsidiary.

In observance of the U.S. Independence Day holiday, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing an issue on Monday, July 4. The next issue will be dated July 6.

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