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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 19, 2016

VOL. 256 NO. 35 May 19, 2016

Programs

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Saab Gripen E Fighter First Flight Planned By Year End

May 18, 2016
Saab is confident of achieving a flight test program with just one-third of the flying hours taken to test the original Gripen. First flight is planned by the end of the year.
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AVX, Karem Test Plans Keep FVL in Sight

May 18, 2016
Losing JMR bidders AVX Aircraft and Karem Aircraft plan key tests for their designs supported by funding from the U.S. Army.
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Leonardo Helicopters Still Assessing Market For ‘AW209’

May 18, 2016
The “AW209” designation, revealed in a May 3 presentation to an Italian parliamentary committee by Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) CEO Mauro Moretti, is a placeholder for the helicopter division’s next new AgustaWestland product.
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Australia To Demo Ocean Surveillance OTH Radar In 2017

May 18, 2016
Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Group (DSTG) is developing an over-the-horizon (OTH) skywave radar for ocean surveillance.
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U.S. Navy Will Seek More Missile Power On Fly: Raytheon

May 17, 2016
To address the need for greater offensive missile power required to accommodate the call for more naval “distributive lethality,” the U.S. Navy will likely rely more on demand from the field than the normal Pentagon acquisition process, says Gerard Hueber, Raytheon Missiles Systems vice president.
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Astronauts Wrap Up Three-Day Flurry Of CubeSat Deployments

May 18, 2016
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station supervised a final round of CubeSat deployments on May 18, having dispatched 17 small sats in all over three days with a NanoRacks deployer for a range of missions.
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DHL Eyes Urban Test For Delivery UAS After Alpine Trail

May 18, 2016
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL says there is no obstacle to field trials of its latest Parcelcopter unmanned delivery aircraft in urban areas following completion of an experimental trial in the Bavarian Alps.
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DART-450 Civil/Military Turboprop Trainer Flown By Diamond

May 18, 2016
Austrian general aviation manufacturer Diamond Aircraft Industries flew its DART-450 civil/military turboprop trainer for the first time on May 17.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

May 19, 2016
NORTHROP GRUMMAN declared quarterly dividend of $0.90 per share on the company’s common stock, a 12.5% increase from ...

In Brief

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Services Prepare For Limited MUOS Operations

May 19, 2016
The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program is in the process of briefing U.S. Strategic Command to ...

Operations

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U.S., Germany Select Deep Space Behavioral Studies

May 17, 2016
NASA and German space agency DLR will jointly sponsor six space analog research efforts selected to assess the effects of the deep space environment on astronaut cognition, sleep and team functioning during missions lasting months to years.
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Pentagon Cites ‘Freedom Of Navigation’ Operations

May 13, 2016
While recent “freedom of navigation” (FON) operations involving China have garnered most of the headlines lately, the Defense Department earlier this month released a list of all the nations whose territorial claims it challenged last year.

Funding & Policy

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Unmanned Systems Seen Having Trust Issues

May 18, 2016
Unlocking the true potential of unmanned systems will require building greater trust of the systems among users, according to a panel of military unmanned systems leaders speaking at the recent Sea-Air-Space symposium here.