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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 12, 2021

VOL. 277 NO. 28 August 12, 2021
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Business

Meggitt optical smoke detector
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TransDigm Bids For Meggitt, Topping Parker Hannifin Offer

Aug 11, 2021
TransDigm Group is bidding 13% more for Meggitt than Parker Hannifin, the first two companies revealed Aug. 11.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
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Skunk Works Opens Doors On New Factory Of The Future

Aug 11, 2021
PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA—To a soundtrack of “Levitating” by English pop singer Dua Lipa, about 100 suit-clad dignitaries filed into Building 658 on the…

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Programs

NATO AGS Global Hawk
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Northrop Grumman To Support New NATO Global Hawk Fleet

Aug 11, 2021
Northrop Grumman will support NATO’s new fleet of Alliance Ground Surveillance Global Hawks for the next five years.
Leonardo Aircrew Training
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Canadian Aircrew Training Program Contest Becomes Two-Horse Race

Aug 11, 2021
Leonardo and Babcock have formally team to combine their offers to provide Canada’s Future Aircrew Training program.
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Lockheed Confirms New Details Of Speed Racer’s Role And Future

Aug 11, 2021
Lockheed Martin has confirmed a secret customer has ordered the Speed Racer flight vehicle that the Skunk Works unveiled a year ago as a technology demonstrator.
KUH
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South Korean Coast Guard Buys Two Improved Surion Helicopters 

Aug 11, 2021
The Korean Coast Guard (KCG) has procured two Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1CG Surion search and rescue helicopters.

Funding & Policy

USAF Gen. John Hyten
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Hyten To Brief Industry On Joint Requirements

Aug 11, 2021
Within the month, the Joint Staff plans to hold an industry day, according to U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
USMC Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye
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Project Convergence To Tackle Joint Operations In 2021

Aug 10, 2021
The U.S. Army’s next installment of Project Convergence—an experiment that seeks to link disparate military platforms—will involve all three services and focus on maximizing the use of data and sharing it across the joint force, according to the deputy commander of Army Futures Command.
MagniX
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FAA Close To First Certification Rules For Electric Engines

Aug 10, 2021
The FAA is closing in on its first special condition for type certification of an electric propulsion system, and acknowledges that amending requirements developed over decades for piston and turbine engines is proving challenging.
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UAP Reporting Included In Intelligence Authorization Bill 

Aug 10, 2021
The bill calls for the intelligence community and the Pentagon to relay all data related to unidentified aerial phenomena “immediately to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.”

Operations

Mars Dune Alpha conception
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NASA Seeks Applicants For Life-On-Mars Simulation

Aug 09, 2021
NASA is seeking a quartet of applicants for the first in a series of three planned year-long simulations of life on Mars intended to evaluate how human explorers might respond to limited resources, equipment failures, communications delays and environmental stresses.

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