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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, October 15, 2019

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Programs

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Karem Proposes Active-Rotor Compound Helicopter For FARA

Oct 14, 2019
Karem Aircraft has teamed with Northrop Grumman and Raytheon to propose its AR40 active-rotor, winged, compound helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program.
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Boeing Declines To Disclose FARA Details

Oct 14, 2019
Boeing is maintaining a veil of secrecy surrounding its design of the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, and is the only vendor that has not disclosed details of its offering.
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Honeywell Begins Testing Power Upgrade For T55

Oct 14, 2019
Honeywell has started early testing of a significant new upgrade for the T55 turboshaft engine.
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Sikorsky Unveils Raider-X Proposal For FARA Armed Scout

Oct 14, 2019
The Raider-X coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter is a development of the S-97 Raider prototype now in flight testing, but is about 20% larger.
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KHI Aims To Develop P-1 EW Version

Oct 14, 2019
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is aiming to develop an electronic warfare version of the P-1 maritime patroller.
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U.S. Army Maintains FLRAA Still A Joint Program

Oct 14, 2019
“We’re still partnered very much so with the Marine Corps and SOCOM on this effort,” an Army program official tells Aerospace DAILY. “We’ve promised to be overly transparent and overly communicate to make sure everyone who is partnered with us feels like we are taking their positions and points into account.”
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U.S. Army To Deploy FTUAS For April Demo

Oct 14, 2019
The UAS are the Martin UAV/Northrop Grumman V-BAT, Textron Hybrid Quad Aerosonde, Arcturus UAV Jump and L3Harris FVR.
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UK Royal Navy’s Next AEW Aircraft Could Be Unmanned

Oct 11, 2019
A UAS appears to be the most likely candidate to replace the Merlin Mk. 2 as the next host platform for the Crowsnest AEW radar or a follow-on system.
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First UK-Owned F-35Bs Land on HMS Queen Elizabeth II

Oct 13, 2019
UK-owned F-35B fighters landed on the HMS Queen Elizabeth II for the first time on Oct. 13 off the Atlantic coast of Florida to initiate operational testing the new aircraft carrier.

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Oct 14, 2019
RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS will merge its MIL and KAMOV helicopter design bureaus into NATIONAL HELICOPTER CENTER.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

Oct 14, 2019
This week the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual symposium is underway in Washington, expected to draw more than 30,000 attendees.

Business

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Muilenburg Removed as Chairman of Boeing; to Remain CEO

Oct 12, 2019
Boeing has demoted Dennis Muilenburg on the board of directors, and giving the chair seat to the company’s leading independent director, David Calhoun, in the wake of the 737 MAX fiasco. Muilenburg will remain president and CEO.
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Details Of UTC/Raytheon Spin-Off Coming Within 30 Days

Oct 14, 2019
The next step in the antitrust review process for the proposed merger of Raytheon and UTC could happen within a month, UTC Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes said Oct. 14.

Funding & Policy

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Tunisia Wants T-6 Texan Trainers

Oct 14, 2019
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of the Beechcraft T-6 Texan turboprop trainer to North Africa’s Tunisia.
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Bridenstine, Musk Patch Things Up

Oct 11, 2019
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk appeared to be mending fences during a joint Oct. 10 news briefing.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of October 7-October 11, 2019

Oct 14, 2019
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, has been awarded a $92,980,000 cost-reimbursement, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Playas Electronic Attack & Cyber Environment research and development.