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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, December 6, 2017

VOL. 262 NO. 46 December 06, 2017
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Programs

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First Operational KC-46 Takes Flight As Boeing Races To Deliver

Dec 05, 2017
Boeing’s first KC-46 Pegasus tanker slated for delivery to the U.S. Air Force made its first flight Dec. 5, and the aircraft won’t be delivered until 2018.
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Northrop Going All-in On Next Growler Jammers

Dec 05, 2017
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has been using an experimental airliner to test a low-band radio frequency jamming pod for the U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler.
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Canadian Navy Demos Training Against Multirotor Drones

Dec 05, 2017
Qinetiq Target Services has completed a demonstration for the Royal Canadian Navy that involved emulating the risk posed to warships by multirotor drones.
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Horizon Technologies Unveils ‘Xpod’ For Signals Snooping

Nov 30, 2017
Need to go fishing for pirates or smugglers? London-based Horizon Technologies has a signals intelligence pod for that.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Dec 06, 2017
AEROJET ROCKETDYNE, INC. appointed Steve Warren chief communications officer.

In Brief

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Former NASA Chief Griffin Picked For Pentagon Post

Dec 06, 2017
President Donald Trump has tapped former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin to be under secretary of defense for research and engineering, effective Feb. 1.

Funding & Policy

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F-35s Could Shoot Down North Korean Missiles

Dec 04, 2017
The U.S. Defense Department could conduct “kinetic” intercepts of North Korean or Iranian missiles with the F-35.
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Pentagon Spending on AI, Big Data, Cloud Soaring

Dec 05, 2017
DOD spending on artificial intelligence, so-called Big Data and cloud-based services totaled $7.4 billion in fiscal 2017, a combined 32.4% jump over 2012.

Technology

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New Alloys Could Reshape Aircraft Manufacture

Dec 04, 2017
Research into a new class of materials that promise to “revolutionize aircraft construction” is being funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Operations

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T-6 Flights Set To Resume As Hypoxia-Like Events Stump Investigators

Dec 05, 2017
The U.S. Air Force planned to resume T-6 Texan II trainer flying operations at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, on Dec. 5 following hypoxia-like events.
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Orbital ISS Resupply Mission Begins Second Phase

Dec 05, 2017
Orbital ATK’s eighth NASA-contracted resupply mission to the ISS initiated the ambitious departure phase of a multifaceted, month-long orbital journey on Dec. 5.