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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, October 14, 2021

VOL. 278 NO. 9 October 14, 2021
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Programs

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Leidos Reveals Artemis Proposal For Guardrail Fleet Replacement

Oct 13, 2021
Leidos is offering the Bombardier Challenger 650 as a fleet replacement or contractor-operator service for the U.S. Army’s RC-12X Guardrail Common Sensor. 
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Accelerated Schedule Slips For New FARA Turboshaft

Oct 13, 2021
A funded effort to deliver a new turboshaft engine for the U.S. Army up to 12 months early has eroded to yield about half to one-fourth of the planned time savings, a GE Aviation official said on Oct. 13.
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Romania To Buy 12 Black Hawks For Emergency Helicopter Need

Oct 13, 2021
Romania has selected the Polish-made Black Hawk helicopter to fulfill a requirement for a fleet of medium/heavy rotorcraft to be used by the country’s emergency services agency.
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Advanced SLS Could Explore Beyond Moon, Experts Say

Oct 13, 2021
Advanced versions of NASA’s Space Launch System, the world’s most power rocket, could be used in the long term to carry out a human Mars flyby and dispatch an interstellar probe to study the realm beyond the Solar System, experts say.
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Sikorsky In Talks With Three More Nations For CH-53K Sales

Oct 13, 2021
Sikorsky is in talks with three more nations about possible sales of the CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift cargo helicopter, following a deal with Israel and the ongoing competition in Germany.
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VoloDrone Delivers In DB Schenker Logistics Demonstration

Oct 12, 2021
Volocopter and logistics company DB Schenker conducted the first public demonstration of the VoloDrone heavy-lift unmanned cargo aircraft at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg on Oct. 12.

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In Brief

Operations

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Blue Origin Flies Star Trek Actor, Passengers To Suborbital Space

Oct 13, 2021
More than 50 years after portraying the fictional captain of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, actor William Shatner joined two paying passengers and a Blue Origin vice president for the company’s second crewed flight to suborbital space.

Funding & Policy

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Pentagon Wants Cheaper Hypersonics To Convince Doubters

Oct 13, 2021
The Pentagon’s head of research and engineering wants hypersonics programs to become cheaper and show tangible successes in tests to convince doubters in the Pentagon that the weapons will be effective.
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Defense Security Cooperation Agency Director Resigns

Oct 13, 2021
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who oversees U.S. military sales abroad, has announced she will step down after 15 months in the job.

Technology

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VerdeGo Hybrid-Electric Powerplant Shows Efficiency

Oct 08, 2021
Startup VerdeGo Aero has validated the efficiency of its VH-3 hybrid-electric powerplant in more than 500 full-scale ground tests of prototype systems since mid-2020.
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Prometheus To Produce Net-Zero SAF From 2022

Oct 11, 2021
U.S. startup Prometheus Fuels expects to begin delivering commercial quantities of its carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel toward the end of 2022.