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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, February 19, 2015

VOL. 251 NO. 31 February 19, 2015

Programs

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Orion Test Data Will Shape Production Vehicle For 2020s

Feb 18, 2015
Results from the first spaceflight test of NASA’s Orion crew capsule will drive the design of the production version of the vehicle that prime contractor Lockheed Martin hopes to build through the 2020s and beyond.
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New Cruise Missile In Service In Mid-2020s

Feb 18, 2015
Development of the W80-4 Life Extension Program warhead, a modernized version of the current ALCM design, has been accelerated in the 2016 budget, alongside that of the LRSO itself, to reverse a two-year slippage that was included in the fiscal 2014 budget.
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USAF Targeting Skills Seen Eroding From Ops In ‘Permissive’ Airspace

Feb 18, 2015
The U.S. Air Force is lagging in its ability to find and identify “high-end” targets, an erosion that has taken place during the past 15 years of combat operations in permissive airspace, says Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
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Trident D5 Improvements Detailed

Feb 18, 2015
Plans to keep the U.S. Navy Trident D5 sea-launched ballistic missile supportable and effective beyond the 2060s include an updated navigation system and a more flexible warhead interface.
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NASA Evaluates Spacesuit Issue Ahead Of Space Station Reconfiguration

Feb 18, 2015
NASA is evaluating a new spacesuit issue as it prepares to embark on a series of seven spacewalks this year that are intended to prepare docking ports aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory for the arrival of the first U.S. commercial crew vehicles by late 2017.
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Irkut To Complete Su-30MKI Kit Deliveries To India In 2015

Feb 18, 2015
When deliveries are completed, the Russian firm will have delivered 222 kits to the state-owned airframer, which builds the Su-30MKI under license at its Nashik factory.
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India, U.S. To Develop Next-Generation Small UAV

Feb 17, 2015
Named “Cheel,” the UAV is to be jointly developed and produced by Dynamatic Technologies and AeroVironment in India.
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Mars One Cuts Settlement Pool To 100 Men And Women

Feb 17, 2015
Most of them are younger than 35 years of age, more than a third of the 100 candidates currently live in the U.S. and all but 21 hold at least a bachelor’s degree.
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JWST Sees Instrument Progress, But Key Spacecraft Subsystem Delayed

Feb 20, 2015
The program’s Integrated Science Instrument Module team says it has overcome a series of challenges plaguing all four of the module’s instruments, as well as a cryocooler subsystem that supports the Mid-Infrared Instrument.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Feb 19, 2015
RAYTHEON has $15.5m U.S. Navy contract to develop flexible application-based architecture (ABA) for P-8A to handle third-party software. AIRBUS GROUP is negotiating to sell CIMPA (PLM services) to SOPRA STERIA to refocus on core aeronautical activities.

Business

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USAF, Army Name Favorite Suppliers

Feb 13, 2015
The two armed services this week unveiled their respective lists, following the Navy and Marine Corps last June, as well as the Defense Logistics Agency in December.