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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 10, 2016

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Programs

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USAF’s Joint Direct Attack Munition Follow-On Tees Up Industry Battle

Aug 09, 2016
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
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Kuwait Orders H225M Helicopters

Aug 09, 2016
The Kuwaiti government has thrown Airbus Helicopters’ troubled H225 helicopter an urgently needed lifeline by purchasing 30 military versions of the aircraft.
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Airlander Airship Emerges From Hangar

Aug 08, 2016
The first prototype of Hybrid Air Vehicles' Airlander 10 hybrid airship has emerged from its hangar at Cardington, England, for the first time.
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More Earthlike Planets Emerge From Kepler Data

Aug 08, 2016
A new assessment of nearly 4,300 exoplanet candidates detected using NASA’s Kepler space observatory has produced 20 Earthlike terrestrial planets orbiting their host stars within the so-called “habitable zone."
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U.S. Naval Pilots Use MH-53 Helos To Sling-Load Army Gear

Aug 09, 2016
U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
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U.S. Navy Awards Delivery Modification For Poseidon

Aug 09, 2016
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
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India, U.S. Make Headway On Joint Satellite

Aug 09, 2016
India and the U.S. are making progress toward developing a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite.
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NASA Barters Launch For Lockheed Smallsat Lunar Data

Aug 09, 2016
Under a launch-for-data-exchange contract, NASA will launch Lockheed Martin’s SkyFire 6U CubeSat on a lunar science trajectory as part of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Aug 10, 2016
FORECAST INTERNATIONAL estimates 4,791 medium/heavy military rotorcraft will be produced worldwide during ...

In Brief

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AEDC Sees Surge Of F135 Engine Testing

Aug 10, 2016
The U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering & Development Center (AEDC) in Tennessee experienced a recent surge of testing related to the ...

Operations

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USMC Aviation Readiness Slowly Improves

Aug 09, 2016
While the U.S. Marine Corps is starting to see overall improvement in aircraft readiness, the service still has quite a bit to work to do across the spectrum of its aviation programs, according to Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller.