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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 7, 2018

VOL. 265 NO. 26 August 07, 2018
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Programs

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USAF On Track To Issue OA-X RFP In December

Aug 06, 2018
The U.S. Air Force has issued a notice of proposed contract action for light attack aircraft and is limiting the competition to Sierra Nevada and Textron.
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71 Smallsats To Share Ride On Falcon 9

Aug 06, 2018
Launch broker Spaceflight has begun integrating 71 satellites for a dedicated smallsat mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this fall.
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State Department OKs Latvian Black Hawk Buy

Aug 06, 2018
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Latvian Foreign Military Sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters.
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Ankara Funds TF-X Production Facilities

Aug 03, 2018
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Aug. 2 that the funding would support the building of a production line in Ankara for the indigenous fighter program.
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India’s GSAT-11 Slated For November Launch

Aug 06, 2018
India and Arianespace will try again to launch the country’s heaviest comm sat, GSAT-11, on Nov. 30, almost four months after its first planned liftoff.
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NOAA Plans More Coyote UAS Flights Into Hurricanes

Aug 02, 2018
NOAA issued a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract to procure seven Coyotes and upgrade two existing UAS. The aircraft will be fitted with an integrated meteorological/oceanographic payload.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Aug 08, 2018
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $22.3m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead material and work to support fiscal 2019 Trident II missile production schedule.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

Aug 08, 2018
This week the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Utah State University’s 32nd annual Smallsat conference is underway in Logan, Utah.

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Business

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Materials Market For A&D To See Growth, Disruption

Aug 06, 2018
A new report by Grand View Research estimates the global aerospace and defense materials market will reach $27.44 billion by 2025.
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Triumph Sells Texas CNC Unit

Aug 02, 2018
Triumph Group’s long-running divestiture effort recorded another selloff as the aircraft structures and parts provider has closed on the sale of Triumph Structures-East Texas to Merritt Preferred Components.

Operations

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SpaceX Poised For First Reflight Of Block 5

Aug 06, 2018
SpaceX on Aug. 7 plans to demonstrate the first reuse of a Falcon 9 Block 5 booster.
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Drones Used In Maduro Assassination Attempt

Aug 06, 2018
Venezuela’s government says two explosive-laden multi-copters were used in an apparent failed assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro.
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Second Batch Of F-35s Arrives in UK

Aug 06, 2018
The five F-35s touched down after dusk at Marham on Aug. 3, joining the four aircraft that arrived in June.

Technology

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Darpa Demonstrates Fast Autonomous Scout Drones

Aug 06, 2018
Darpa has demonstrated algorithms that could enable small commercial drones to become autonomous scouts in urban battle zones or searchers for survivors inside buildings damaged by natural disasters.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of July 30-Aug. 3, 2018

Aug 08, 2018
Security Signals Inc., Cordova, Tennessee, was awarded a $62,207,375 firm-fixed-price foreign military sales (Taiwan) contract for the procurement of the Family of Hand Held Signal.