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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 31, 2017

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Programs

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Lockheed Accepts Defeat In USAF ICBM Replacement

Aug 30, 2017
With Lockheed out, Boeing and Northrop are now in a head-to-head battle to capture the nation’s most important strategic nuclear missile program since the Cold War.
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Dream Chaser Off To Flying Restart

Aug 30, 2017
It was the first airborne test of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s (SNC) Dream Chaser vehicle in nearly four years.
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Pilatus Closing 60-Year Porter Saga

Aug 28, 2017
Pilatus is ceasing production of its PC-6 Porter multirole aircraft—which has been produced without interruption since 1959.
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U.S. Tests New SM-6 Variant Against Missile Target

Aug 30, 2017
The test took place at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, against a single, probably North Korean-style medium-range ballistic missile target.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Aug 31, 2017
LOCKHEED MARTIN delivered 100,000th Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb.

In Brief

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McCain Asks Mattis For CR Impacts

Aug 31, 2017
Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) are asking Defense Secretary James Mattis for specifics on how the U.S. military will be affected if it begins fiscal 2018 operating on a continuing budget resolution.

Operations

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USAF Lifts F-35 Flying Restrictions; No Root Cause Yet

Aug 30, 2017
The U.S. Air Force has lifted a temporary flight restriction limiting the F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, to flying below 25,000 ft., although no root cause has been identified for a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents at that location.
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Storm-Battered NASA Johnson To Reopen Sept. 5

Aug 30, 2017
NASA’s Johnson Space Center is preparing to re-open after the U.S. Labor Day holiday.

DMIN

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Defense Market Intelligence Notes

Aug 31, 2017
View the Defense Market Intelligence Notes in PDF format.