Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to buy 50 AGM-158C long-range anti-ship missiles from Lockheed Martin for the third lot of low rate initial production.

Boeing and Safran have named their joint venture for auxiliary power units (APUs), calling it Initium Aerospace.

Target Arm is to add autonomous precision navigation to its prototype Talon universal launch and recovery platform for small UAS under a contract from the USAF.

Industry in Denmark, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK have secured component repair work for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

India is taking the next steps toward shortlisting Indian strategic partners and foreign manufacturers to produce 111 Naval Utility Helicopters (NUH).

U.S. Trump administration officials have publicly acknowledged ongoing problems with the export of UAVs that the aerospace industry has voiced for some time.

Sikorsky has announced an accord with on-demand helo service provider Blade that will give the Lockheed Martin firm access to data on the urban air mobility market.

TEXTRON AVIATION DEFENSE has $10.4m U.S. Air Force contract for 12 T-6C aircraft, maintenance and pilot training, and interim contractor support.

This week in Washington the clock is ticking on the stopgap spending measure funding the federal government, which expires Feb. 15.

Parsons, Pasadena, California, has been awarded a $94,359,257 firm-fixed-price contract for the Launch Manifest Systems Integrator (LMSI).

Airborne wind energy developer Makani has graduated from X, the advanced research arm of Google parent company Alphabet.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES West geostationary weather satellite has been declared operational, the agency declared Feb. 12.

The Pentagon released its first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) strategy Feb. 12.

Bye Aerospace has flown its electric-powered Sun Flyer 2 prototype fitted with the Siemens motor planned for production aircraft.

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) climate research orbiter is embracing new duties.

Oil-and-gas helicopter operator Bristow Group has abandoned its proposed takeover of Columbia Helicopters as Bristow struggles with financial issues.

The U.S. Army has taken the first step to acquire four new battalions of ground-based defensive systems against fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and large unmanned aircraft systems.

Flir Systems is buying the former iRobot defense unit, one of the Pentagon’s top unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) providers, for $385 million in cash.

UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey has revealed the first details of its partnership to develop a high-altitude pseudo-sat developed for the cartography mission.

The Pentagon's Inspector General plans to evaluate whether the U.S. Air Force followed the rules when it certified SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets to launch national security payloads.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is supportive of a $750 billion fiscal 2020 defense budget and does not care how the Pentagon gets there, even if it means using the wartime funding account.

India’s state-run defense agency has tested an indigenously developed ramjet propulsion technology for long-range, air-to-air missiles.

Costs of the Calt Long March 3A-series space launcher have dropped dramatically with an acceleration in usage, industry managers say.

The international Starburst Accelerator group is partnering with worldwide networking group Techstars to launch a startup-business accelerator focused on new business models pursuing new space technologies.

As expected, Embraer delivered 91 business jets in 2018, including 64 light and 27 large jets, missing earlier projections of 105 to 125 aircraft, the company said Feb. 11.