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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 1, 2017

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Programs

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NASA Options Soyuz Seats From Boeing

Feb 28, 2017
NASA has inked a $373.5 million deal with Boeing that includes options for three more seats on Russia’s Soyuz vehicle for missions to the International Space Station.
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A400M Gets New Program Manager

Feb 28, 2017
Airbus Defense and Space has brought in a new program manager for its troubled A400M airlifter program.
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SpaceX Says It Can Beat NASA To Moon

Feb 27, 2017
SpaceX has two paying customers for a lunar flyaround, and will try to send them on their way before the end of 2018, founder Elon Musk said Feb. 27.
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U.S. Navy Mulls Next Missile Buy As LRASM Begins Production

Feb 28, 2017
The next air-launched cruise missile the U.S. Navy buys under the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare program should be competitively selected and must be capable of destroying maritime and land targets, the service’s head of precision strike weapons says.
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Leonardo PicoSAR Picked For UAV Programs In Africa, Europe

Feb 28, 2017
Leonardo’s PicoSAR active electronically scanned array synthetic aperture radar has been chosen to equip the French army’s new Patroller UAV as well as Schiebel Camcopters destined for a North African country.
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Bell Studying Civil Derivative of V-280

Feb 27, 2017
Bell Helicopter has been quietly studying commercial derivatives of its V-280 tiltrotor, but says the civil version will only be possible if the aircraft is adopted by the military first.
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Roketsan Weighing U.S.-Made Second Engine For SOM-J

Feb 24, 2017
Turkish armaments manufacturer Roketsan is close to selecting a U.S.-made second engine for the Stand-Off Missile (SOM-J), which is being developed for internal carriage on the Lockheed Martin F-35A/C.
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Norad Explores North-Facing Over-the-Horizon Radar

Feb 27, 2017
The chain of 49 early warning and control radars built during the Cold War to safeguard North America are becoming obsolete, and the U.S. and Canada have begun looking for a longer-range, wider-area replacement for detecting threatening aircraft, missiles and ships.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Mar 02, 2017
AIRBUS HELICOPTERS has German defense ministry contract to retrofit 26 CH-53 heavy transport helicopters by 2022.

In Brief

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Trump Officials Offer Clarity On Russia

Mar 02, 2017
Where President Donald Trump’s statements about wanting better relations with Russia have left allies scratching their heads, Trump’s top administration officials are trying to provide more clarity.

Funding & Policy

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Trump’s Defense Budget Plan Faces Multi-front Battle

Feb 27, 2017
President Donald Trump’s proposal for a $54 billion increase in defense spending will face significant hurdles in Congress—and not just by those who oppose the administration’s planned offsets in non-defense discretionary spending.