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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 14, 2019

VOL. 269 NO. 32 August 14, 2019
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Contracts

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USAF Quietly Awards Tetra-3 Contract To York Space Systems

Aug 13, 2019
The USAF has quietly awarded a contract to York Space Systems using its Space Enterprise Consortium for Tetra-3, a microsatellite that will be used to prototype missions and tactics, techniques and procedures.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Aug 13, 2019
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP. has $107.4m U.S. Navy contract for long lead items for six CH-53K aircraft.

In Brief

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Austral USA Wins U.S. Navy LCS Contract

Aug 13, 2019
The U.S. Navy has awarded Aus-tal USA LLC, of Mobile, Alabama, a $23,099,311 for cost-plus fixed-fee task order to accomplish advance planning, material procurement and accomplishment of work.

Technology

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GPS Outage Would Cost $1B Per Day: Commerce Study

Aug 13, 2019
The U.S. Global Positioning System has provided $1.4 trillion worth of nongovernment economic benefits since 1984 and an outage would cost $1 billion a day in losses, a new study commissioned by the U.S. Commerce Department has found.
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Siemens Proves Feasibility Of Superconducting Electric Propulsion

Aug 13, 2019
Using experiments and digital simulations, Siemens’ eAircraft said it has proved the feasibility of a high power-density superconducting generator that could be used in a hybrid-electric propulsion system for future short-haul commercial aircraft.

Business

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FAA OKs Drone Food Deliveries In North Carolina

Aug 13, 2019
Drone delivery system developer Flytrex and jet charter and management company Causey Aviation said they have received FAA approval to begin food deliveries by drone in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
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Big A&D Firms Seem To Be Merging Or Acquiring—Where’s Honeywell?

Aug 13, 2019
United Technologies (UTC) and Raytheon are working hard to convince shareholders to approve their mega-merger.

Programs

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Inside Russia’s Modernized Mi-28NM

Aug 13, 2019
A decade-long effort to upgrade Russia’s Mi-28N attack helicopter recently paid off, with a Russian government order for 98 Mi-28NMs, with deliveries through 2027.
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NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission Adjusts To Rocky Terrain

Aug 13, 2019
Confronted with unexpectedly rocky terrain, NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission will spend an additional four months assessing its target, the primitive 500-m-wide planetary object Bennu.

Funding & Policy

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Industry Urges FAA To Focus On Large Drones

Aug 13, 2019
The Commercial Drone Alliance is calling on the FAA and the White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft systems.