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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 4, 2016

VOL. 256 NO. 2 April 04, 2016

Programs

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Airbus Working A400M Manufacturing Glitches

Apr 04, 2016
Airbus Defense and Space says it is working to resolve manufacturing faults affecting propeller gear boxes inside the TP400-D6 engines that power the A400M airlifter.
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GAO: Planned Investment In Major DOD Programs Drops

Apr 04, 2016
The U.S. Defense Department’s portfolio of major defense acquisitions increased from 78 to 79 over the past year, while the total planned investment in those programs decreased from $1.45 trillion to $1.44 trillion, according to the latest annual review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. “This estimate is in line with a trend seen since 2010 of decreases in the portfolio’s total acquisition cost,” GAO says. “The average time to deliver initial capability to the warfighter also increased by 2.4 months.”
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James Webb Space Telescope Entering Crucial Phase

Apr 01, 2016
It is a spacecraft so huge that it can only be tested in pieces, a flagship astronomy mission so complex and cutting-edge that some of its subsystems have never flown in space.
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U.K. Tests BriteCloud Decoy From Tornado

Mar 31, 2016
The U.K. Royal Air Force has tested Finmeccanica’s BriteCloud miniaturized expendable active decoy in formal tests against a range of threat emitters during exercises in the U.S.
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Former A400M Test Pilot Strongman Dies

Apr 01, 2016
Ed Strongman, the former U.K. chief test pilot on the Airbus A400M airlifter, has died of cancer. He was 67.
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GAO Warns NASA Cost, Schedule Improvements Could Stall

Apr 01, 2016
Following a pat on the back to NASA for continued overall improvements in the cost and schedule performance of its major programs, the U.S. General Accountability Office warned the favorable five-year trend could reverse.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Apr 04, 2016
BOEING has $325.8m U.S. Air Force order for 15,000 Lot 20 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tailkits. Work will be performed at St. Louis, MO, complete by March 29, 2018. BELL-BOEING has $151.3m U.S. Navy contract for development of Navy Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) variant of V-22 Osprey tiltrotor (CMV-22B). AUSTAL USA has $564m U.S. Navy contract for construction of one fiscal 2016 Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS 26); LOCKHEED MARTIN also has $564m contract for one fiscal 2016 Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS 25).

Operations

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Former SpaceX Exec: Proprietary Data Can Hamper Safety Work

Apr 01, 2016
Plans to put U.S. government astronauts on commercial crew vehicles are raising difficulties in preparing the vehicles for flight, according to an experienced NASA astronaut who also served as an executive at SpaceX.
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Britain Looks at Attending Latin American Exercises

Mar 30, 2016
Britain may look at sending aircraft to the multi-national Cruzex exercise in Brazil, Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, deputy commander of operations, told journalists at the Fidae air show here March 30.

Technology

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Darpa Picks Teams To Study ‘Gremlins’ Swarming UAVs

Apr 01, 2016
The concept is to launch groups of UAVs from large bomber or transport aircraft, or smaller fixed-wing platforms. These “gremlins” would operate in a distributed and cooperative way, Darpa says.

Industry Data

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U.S. DoD - Bombers and Long-Range Strike Spending : FY15-FY17($K)

Apr 04, 2016
View the U.S. DoD - Bombers and Long-Range Strike Spending: FY15-FY17($K) in PDF format.

Calendar of Events

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Upcoming Events

Apr 04, 2016
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Apr. 1-15—Human & Space Conference, The National Aerospace Educational Center of Youth of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine. For more information go to www.spaceagenda.com/events/detail/2016-04-01_human-space