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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 18, 2018

VOL. 265 NO. 55 September 18, 2018
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Funding & Policy

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Wilson Pegs Initial Space Force Cost At $12.9B

Sep 17, 2018
The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.
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USAF Wants To Grow Force By 74 Squadrons

Sep 17, 2018
“The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
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BAE, USAF Sign GaN Tech Cooperative Agreement

Sep 17, 2018
BAE Systems is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to cut the cost of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology.
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Defense Spending Bill Includes 16 More F-35s

Sep 14, 2018
The fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill conference report allots the Pentagon $1.7 billion for 16 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Sep 19, 2018
AEROVIRONMENT has $8.9m U.S. Army contract for RQ-20B Puma AE II systems/support to Estonia.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

Sep 19, 2018
This week the Air Force Association’s annual Air, Space and Cyber symposium is underway in National Harbor, Maryland.

Programs

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Saudi Arabia Receives First MH-60R

Sep 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia currently has 10 MH-60Rs on order through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.
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Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for 22 GPS IIIF Satellites

Sep 14, 2018
The fixed-price contract worth up to $7.2 billion came to Lockheed by default after Boeing and Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition earlier this year.
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Enhanced Vision For USAF C-130Js

Sep 17, 2018
Rockwell Collins is promoting a digital upgrade of the HGS-6000 Head-up Guidance System on the C-130J Super Hercules that will combine enhanced and synthetic vision for U.S. Air Force missions as well as for firefighting operations.
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Delta II Delivers IceSat-2, Flies Into History Books

Sep 15, 2018
Marks the 155th and final mission for the booster that helped put the U.S. back into the space business after the 1986 Challenger accident.
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Sikorsky: U.S. Army FARA Broad Agency Announcement Imminent

Sep 14, 2018
The release of the U.S. Army’s broad agency announcement for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competitive prototyping program is imminent, an industry executive says.
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U.S. Navy Narrows LRASM Export To Seven Nations

Sep 17, 2018
Lockheed Martin anticipates exporting the cruise missile in three years.

Business

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Delayed Rockwell Actuator Spinoff To Safran Holds Up UTC Buy

Sep 14, 2018
A belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business to Safran has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, the chief executive of the latter told analysts recently.

Operations

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India Launches Two UK Satellites

Sep 17, 2018
India’s space agency has successfully put into orbit two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—in a rare night launch for the country.
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NASA Assessing Dates For ISS Battery Upgrade

Sep 17, 2018
NASA is re-assessing plans for a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to upgrade its solar power generation system with more efficient lithium ion power storage batteries.
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'Dark Ships' First Target For Hawkeye 360’s Sigint Cubesats

Sep 14, 2018
Detecting and tracking “dark ships” suspected of smuggling or illegal fishing will be the first application for a radio frequency (RF)-based data stream collected by a new cluster of commercial cubesats scheduled for launch by the end of November

Technology

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Propulsion System Tests Pave Way For Defiant JMR Demo Flights

Sep 14, 2018
The Sikorsky Boeing team hopes to fly the SB-1 Defiant advanced rotorcraft demonstrator before year’s end.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of Sept. 10-14, 2018

Sep 19, 2018
BAE Systems Technology Solutions has been awarded a $9,695,000 firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery requirements contract for the F-16 Commercial Fire Control Computer (CFCC) repair program.