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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, February 6, 2020

VOL. 271 NO. 24 February 06, 2020
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Programs

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DARPA Plans Distributed-Operations Demo With Air-Recoverable Gremlins

Feb 05, 2020
Although Dynetics has yet to accomplish the airborne recovery of an air-launched unmanned aircraft, DARPA has announced plans to award the company a sole-source follow-on contract for a mission demonstration under its Gremlins program.
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Germany Urged To Reconsider F-35 To Replace Tornado

Feb 05, 2020
A German think tank is calling on Germany’s defense ministry to reconsider Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as a successor for the country’s Panavia Tornado fleet.
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Ghana To Probe Airbus C295 Purchase

Feb 03, 2020
The government of Ghana has been drawn into the controversy surrounding the Airbus bribery probe after it emerged that payments were made to secure the sale of C295 turboprop airlifters to the African republic’s military.

Daily Briefs

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Daily Briefs

Feb 06, 2020
Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

In Brief

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NASA Selects SpaceX For PACE Launch

Feb 06, 2020
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission in December 2022 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape…

Funding & Policy

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Ex-SDA Director Cautions Space Force Not Fix For DOD Acquisition

Feb 05, 2020
Seven months after being ousted as the Space Development Agency’s first director, Fred Kennedy is warning industry that the U.S. Space Force is not a quick fix for all the Pentagon’s acquisition problems.
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U.S. Military Will Launch Space Situational Awareness Marketplace

Feb 05, 2020
The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center intends to unveil a Space Situational Awareness Marketplace later this year to help satisfy the military’s insatiable appetite for data.
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National Academies Panel Urges Concerted Solar Science Focus

Feb 04, 2020
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Business

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TransDigm To Lay Off Up To 10% Due To MAX, 787 Rate Cuts

Feb 05, 2020
The key aerospace supplier plans to lay off 3-10% of its direct and indirect workforce in part due to the Boeing 737 MAX production halt.
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Aeronautics’ Subsidiary Forms UAS Division Focused On U.S. Market

Feb 04, 2020
CP Technologies, a subsidiary of Israel’s Aeronautics, has established a business unit to pursue U.S. defense and civil markets for the parent company’s range of unmanned aircraft systems.

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Operations

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Counter-Drone, UTM Systems Planned At Auckland Airport

Feb 05, 2020
Air navigation service provider Airways New Zealand has entered into an agreement with a UK company to build on a proof-of-concept drone detection system currently being tested at Auckland Airport (NZAA).

Program Dossier

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Program Dossier: JF-17 Thunder

Feb 06, 2020
The JF-17 Thunder (also known as the FC-1 Xiaolong “Fierce Dragon”) is a single-engine, multirole, light fighter aircraft developed by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC).