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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 13, 2017

VOL. 261 NO. 50 September 13, 2017
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Programs

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USAF Weighs Scrapping J-Stars Recap

Sep 12, 2017
Just months before the U.S. Air Force is slated to choose an industry team to begin developing a new aircraft to replace its existing battlefield command-and-control and surveillance fleet, the service appears to be considering scrapping the program altogether.
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SNC Files Protest Over U.S. Army’s Aborted Fixed-wing Competition

Sep 12, 2017
Sierra Nevada Corp. has filed a bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s cancellation of the Fixed-wing Utility Aircraft competition.
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Boeing Won’t Protest U.S. Air Force’s LRSO Decision

Sep 12, 2017
The U.S. Air Force’s largest nuclear cruise missile program since the Cold War can proceed unencumbered, with Boeing deciding not to protest the service’s Aug. 23 awards to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
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Saab Offers Red-Air Specialized Gripen

Sep 12, 2017
Saab has lifted the veil on a specialized red-air aggressor version of its Gripen fighter in a bid to grab a share of the burgeoning air combat training market.
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Final Titan Pass Sets Cassini On One-Way Trip Into Saturn

Sep 11, 2017
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a final swing around Titan Sept. 11, taking advantage of the giant moon’s gravity to slingshot itself onto a dead-end path into Saturn’s atmosphere.
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Bahrain Requests F-16Vs, Upgrades

Sep 11, 2017
Bahrain looks set to provide a lifeline to Lockheed Martin’s F-16 production line after making a formal request to purchase 19 F-16Vs and upgrade 20 of its existing fighters to the F-16V standard.
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L.A. County Buys Two Firefighting Sikorsky S-70is

Sep 08, 2017
Prompted by a brutal 2016 wildfire season, Los Angeles County has purchased two Sikorsky S-70is for conversion to Firehawk firefighting and multimission helicopters.
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Third Ford-class Carrier Will Blow Senate Cost Cap

Sep 11, 2017
The third ship of the U.S. Navy’s Ford-class carrier fleet, the CVN 80 USS Enterprise, will cost an estimated $12.6 billion to build.
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Egypt Receives First Ka-52K Helicopters

Sep 07, 2017
The first export delivery of Kamov Ka-52s is underway, as Egypt has formally accepted the first three of the Russian attack helicopters.
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Indonesia Upgrading F-16A/Bs

Sep 12, 2017
Indonesia is starting upgrades on nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs ordered in 1986.
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British-Built Vertical-Lift UAV On Leonardo’s Horizon

Sep 12, 2017
British concept work into rotary-wing unmanned air systems could result in the development of a production platform for use by the British Army and Royal Navy, Leonardo officials say.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Sep 14, 2017
THALES is opening metal 3D printing center of excellence in Casablanca, Morocco.

In Brief

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Thales Buys U.S. Big Data Analytics Company

Sep 14, 2017
France’s Thales on Sept. 12 announced the closing of a deal to buy Guavus, a Silicon Valley company specializing in Big Data analytics.

Funding & Policy

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Senate Democrats To Push ‘Buy American’ In Defense Bill

Sep 12, 2017
Senate Democrats want to beef up so-called Buy American laws and regulations.
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U.S. State Dept. OKs Potential Sale Of 18 F-18s To Canada

Sep 12, 2017
Less than a year after the Canadian government started negotiating with Boeing to buy 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets, the U.S. State Department let Congress know on Sept. 11 it had approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of the aircraft.