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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 15, 2021

VOL. 277 NO. 51 September 15, 2021
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Business

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Raytheon Technologies Ramps Up Performance+ Supply Chain Squeeze

Sep 14, 2021
Raytheon Technologies ramping up Performance+ supply chain squeeze as A&D giant looks to fulfill cost-cutting promise to investors.
Faraday
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BAE Re-Enters Satellite Business With In-Space Missions Acquisition

Sep 14, 2021
The two parties made the announcement on the opening day of the Defense, Security and Equipment International (DSEI) exposition in London.
Inspiration4 crew
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Private Pilot Found Crew Dragon Training ‘Intense’

Sep 14, 2021
Private pilot Jared Isaacman and three-member crew train for first all-civilian private space charter, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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Capella Opens 60 SAR Images For Public Use

Sep 14, 2021
For about five years, Capella’s products have been provided primarily to governments and large research institutions. Now the company is widening the access to a subset of its images.
Training
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Private Equity Owner Adds Raytheon Defense Training To Vertex

Sep 14, 2021
Vertex Aerospace, a legacy L3 Technologies unit providing logistics, MRO and supply chain management, has bought up a number of business lines from Raytheon Technologies as it moves into the latter stages of post-merger divestitures.
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SkyDrive Advances Ambition  For Osaka UAM Service

Sep 14, 2021
The Japanese startup has advanced its plans to operate an urban air taxi service during World Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai.
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Woolpert Buys Optimal GEO For National Security Work

Sep 10, 2021
Woolpert, a century-old mapping and surveying specialist, has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based company that specializes in providing photogrammetric mapping, orthography, lidar and GIS data to defense and intelligence communities.
Lilium eVTOL
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Lilium To Go Public After Large Shareholder Payback

Sep 10, 2021
High-profile electric air taxi startup Lilium will become a publicly traded company Sept. 15 when its Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols “LILM” and “LILMW” respectively.
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NIAR WERX On Growth Path With 777-300ER Conversion

Sep 09, 2021
For years, Wichita State University’s research and development arm, the National Institute for Aviation Research, has tried to recruit a large maintenance, repair and overhaul facility to Wichita.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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BlackSky Becomes Publicly Traded With Less SPAC Proceeds

Sep 09, 2021
BlackSky, a small-satellite-based startup providing geospatial intelligence to government agencies and others, will begin trading as a public company Sept. 10 after a successful reverse-merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

Funding & Policy

An artist concept of Rocket Cargo
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DOD Progressing On Separate Space Cargo Efforts

Sep 14, 2021
Two U.S. military initiatives to determine the feasibility of moving cargo through space are moving forward.
Reta
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U.S. Ex-Im Bank Renews LEAP-1B Guarantee; New Head Nominated

Sep 14, 2021
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has renewed a guarantee supporting aircraft-engine sales while Reta Jo Lewis has been nominated to lead the export credit agency.
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Hyten Outlines Areas For Improvement

Sep 13, 2021
As the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nears the end of his term, he sees several areas for improvement at the Pentagon.

Programs

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New Sustainment Deal Moves F-35 Within 16.7% Of 2025 Goal

Sep 13, 2021
A contract award puts the Lockheed Martin F-35A on track to reduce cost per flight hour (CPFH) to $30,000 by 2023, still $5,000 short of the U.S. Air…
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Leonardo Establishes Team For UK AW149 Offer

Sep 14, 2021
Leonardo has established team of UK suppliers to support AW149 medium rotorcraft bid for UK New Medium Helicopter requirement.
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Boeing MQ-25 Refuels F-35C 

Sep 14, 2021
The test marks the first time the unmanned aircraft has connected with a stealth fighter.
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Airbus Helicopters Gains Much From CityAirbus AAM Demo

Sep 10, 2021
Airbus Helicopters says it has achieved much of what it wanted to get out of its flight test campaign of its CityAirbus advanced air mobility demonstrator.

Operations

MQ-9
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MQ-9 Tests Communications Capability in the Arctic

Sep 13, 2021
General Atomics has completed a flight of one of its MQ-9 medium-altitude, long endurance uncrewed air systems over Canada’s High North.
SpaceX Starlink
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SpaceX Expands Starlink Network, Adds Laser Links

Sep 14, 2021
The first of new generation of SpaceX Starlink satellites reached near-polar orbit Sept. 14, adding to growing broadband constellation.
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Blade Boosts Organ Air Transport Business

Sep 10, 2021
On-demand helicopter service provider Blade Air Mobility is to acquire organ transport company Trinity Air Medical.

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