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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, December 12, 2017

VOL. 262 NO. 50 December 12, 2017
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Funding & Policy

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Trump Calls For NASA To Put Astronauts On Moon

Dec 11, 2017
President Donald Trump is calling for NASA to launch a seventh human mission to the Moon and build a foundation for a future mission to Mars.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Dec 13, 2017
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS INC. has $134m U.S. Air Force contract for block 30 ground control stations.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

Dec 13, 2017
Wednesday afternoon U.S. Air Force officials will testify to the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces on so-called physiological episodes among pilots.

Business

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Lockheed Leads Way In 2016 U.S. Foreign Arms Sales, Sipri Says

Dec 11, 2017
Annual foreign sales of arms and military services by U.S.-based companies jumped 4% to $217.2 billion in 2016, according to a well-known Swedish think tank.

Programs

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Why Boeing Hasn’t Been Flying Its Two T-X Trainers

Dec 11, 2017
Boeing says it is “focused on the competition, not promotional flights,” having already submitted its T-X proposal in March and the corresponding flight-test data in June.
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Qatar Signs $8 billion Typhoon Deal

Dec 10, 2017
The contract also comes just days after Qatar signed up to purchase 12 additional Dassault Rafales from France adding to the 24 it already has on order as well as the 36 Boeing F-15QA Advanced Eagles being purchased from the United States.
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New Horizons Maneuver Optimizes Future Flyby

Dec 11, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons carried out a small course-correction maneuver Dec. 9.
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In-Orbit Experiment Fails To Contradict Einstein ... So Far

Dec 11, 2017
Experiment results on Europe’s Microscope mini-sat have confirmed a key principle in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, French space agency CNES says.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of Dec. 4-Dec. 8, 2017

Dec 13, 2017
General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $134,010,380 undefinitized contract action for the production of block 30 ground control stations.