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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 17, 2025

VOL. 291 NO. 51 March 17, 2025
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Operations

The Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force fires a HIMARS as part of a ship-sinking exercise in July 2024. Credit: U.S. Army
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U.S. Army Task Force Prepares For LRHW, Typhon

Mar 14, 2025
The Third Multi-Domain Task Force is also pressing for additional long-endurance uncrewed aircraft systems.
ccaalert
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CCAs Can Take On Homeland Defense Role, General Atomics Says

Mar 10, 2025
The company laid out a new proposal for CCA to Aviation Week.
vertical
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Vertical Aerospace Details Flight Test Progress

Mar 11, 2025
The company says it has completed the thrust-borne portion of its flight test campaign.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Funding & Policy

FAA helicopter route chart near Reagan Washington National Airport. Credit: NTSB
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FAA Bans ‘Nonessential’ Helo Flights At Reagan National Airport

Mar 14, 2025
The agency on March 14 released several safety steps it is taking in the aftermath of the late-January fatal midair collision.
Luftwaffe
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Germany Nears Constitutional Change To Hike Defense Spending

Mar 14, 2025
The coalition of parties agreed to a pact that would give them a majority in a planned vote in parliament on March 18.

Business

Don Ruhmann Boeing chief aerospace safety officer
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Boeing Names Ruhmann As New Chief Safety Officer

Mar 14, 2025
Boeing has named Don Ruhmann as its second chief aerospace safety officer, effective immediately; Ruhmann is replacing the retiring Mike Delaney in the role.

Programs

qualification tests of the new Aster 30 B1 interceptor
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France, Italy, UK Speed Aster Missile Deliveries

Mar 14, 2025
France, Italy and the UK have agreed to accelerate delivery of Aster air and missile defense interceptors as part of a top-up order for 218 additional missiles.
AW 609 tiltrotor (former BA 609 tilt rotor) plane and visitors, Volandia fly museum, Somma Lombardo, Malpensa, Lombardy, Italy Contributor: luciopix / Alamy Stock Photo
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AW609 Tiltrotor Steps Closer To Certification

Mar 14, 2025
The TIA flights are among three blocks of activities that are now being pursued.
US Navy Photo / Alamy Stock Photo VBAT
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USAF Seeks Air-to-Air Counter-Drone System

Mar 14, 2025
The information call came in response to a Joint Urgent Operational Need, a designation that allows new systems to be fielded within two years.
guyana
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Guyana Trials To Mature Bell 525

Mar 12, 2025
Portugal’s Omni Helicopters International is to put the first production 525 through a 500-hr., six-month-long trial.

The Debrief

china's NPC 20225
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Budget Brief: Defense Defies Chinese Economic Slowdown

Mar 10, 2025
With all eyes on the spat between the new administration in Washington and its allies in Europe, China quietly released details of its budget plans for 2025.

Fleet Snapshot

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