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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, June 2, 2020

VOL. 272 NO. 41 June 02, 2020
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Weekly Debrief

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Weekly Debrief: U.S. Air Force’s Gradual ABMS Transition Starts On The Ground

Jun 01, 2020
When discussing the U.S. Air Force's next C2 architecture, the temptation is to focus on the E-3 AWACS and E-8C J-Stars. Less attention is paid to the ground-based, and in many ways more powerful, corollaries of both aircraft.

Daily Briefs

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Daily Briefs

Jun 01, 2020
Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Programs

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Egypt Looking To Italy For Sizable Defense Buy

Jun 01, 2020
Cairo reportedly is looking to purchase 24 Eurofighters, 24 M-346 jet trainers, a satellite produced by Leonardo, and up to six FREMM frigates and offshore patrol vessels.
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Beta, Joby Sign Agility Prime Prototyping Contracts

Jun 01, 2020
Beta Technologies and Joby Aviation are the first developers of urban air mobility vehicles to progress to the third stage of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program.
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BAE Systems Tests Ground-Launched APKWS

Jun 01, 2020
BAE says the successful firings at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona show the weapon can allow mounted and dismounted units to engage soft and lightly armored targets.
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Germany Plans Paveway, Brimstone For EuroDrone

Jun 01, 2020
Germany is looking to arm its future fleet of EuroDrone unmanned aircraft systems with MBDA Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and Enhanced Paveway…

Operations

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Hurley, Behnken Praise Demo-2 Launch Experience

Jun 01, 2020
“Things worked exactly the way we expected them to work," Demo-2 astronaut Doug Hurley said. " It’s a pretty awe-inspiring trip so far, pretty humbling,”

Funding & Policy

SpaceX Demo-2 liftoff
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Lawmakers: Demo-2 Success Could Fuel NASA’s Lunar Initiative

Jun 01, 2020
“I’m very confident that we’ll continue to fund NASA and fund NASA aggressively,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said shortly after SpaceX's Demo-2 mission successfully docked with the International Space Station.

Business

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EHang Approved For Commercial eVTOL Logistics Service

May 27, 2020
Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer EHang has received approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China to begin commercial operation of its EHang 216 autonomous air vehicle for unmanned air logistics.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of May 26 - 29, 2020

Jun 01, 2020
Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.