Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Marhalim Abas
Jordan will deliver two Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters to the Philippines in July 2019.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
GKN Aerospace will use additive manufacturing to create the turbine for Europe’s Prometheus reusable rocket engine demonstrator.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Avic unit Guizhou Aviation has completed the first FTC-2000G, an armed export version of the JL-9 trainer.
Defense

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $47.5m U.S. Air Force contract for B-2 digital countermeasure receiver repair and overhaul services.

The Trump administration is in “very frequent” discussions with Turkey to work through the security concerns that have put F-35 deliveries to the country on hold.

India’s proposed purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia is seen as unlikely to attract punitive measures from the U.S. as the deal enters its final stages.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a $164 million contract modification for an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for Japan.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Boeing will integrate the Lockheed Martin Legion Pod on U.S. Air Force F-15C fighters under a $208.3 million contract award from the service on Sept. 5.
Program Management

By Tony Osborne
A Bell-led team has been selected to conduct a flight demonstration as part of NASA studies on integrating unmanned air systems into nonsegregated airspace.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has performed the first flight of its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Ten of the world’s largest metropolitan areas are in the running to become the first international test site of Uber’s proposed aerial ride-sharing program.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
PGZ could be involved in the support, sustainment and upgrade activity for the Apache if it is selected for Poland’s Kruk attack helicopter program.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $281.9m U.S. Air Force contract for fiscal 2017/2018 DAS-4 targeting system production and upgrades.

The U.S. Air Force has a new lead for its Unexplained Physiological Event (UPE) Integration Team.

Raytheon Co., Burlington, Massachusetts, was awarded a $58,395,992 modification (P00068) to contract W9113M-13-C-0009 for surveillance system supply and support.

By Steve Trimble
So-called boost-glide systems most likely are the intended target of Darpa's Glide Breaker program, which seeks to demonstrate defenses against hypersonic weapons such as those being developed by China and Russia.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon is standing up a new office to help it figure out all the changes Congress has made to defense acquisition reforms, an assistant secretary of defense for acquisition enablers (ASD), according to a leading Pentagon acquisition official.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The DOD's acquisition chief says the U.S. must be transparent with the U.S. military services, international partners and foreign military sales customers on the F-35's steep sustainment cost.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The small hole in one of the Soyuz capsules parked at the ISS has been patched, but the mystery about what caused it is deepening daily on Earth.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) supports a Space Force that is a similar model to how the U.S. Marine Corps is organized.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA should develop an advanced space observatory capable of directly observing Earth-like extrasolar planets to seek evidence for life on a cosmic scale, a new study says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
Boeing’s KC-46 program received an STC from the FAA that verifies the platform’s refueling and mission avionics systems meet requirements.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. State Department has OK'd a possible foreign military sale to the Netherlands for the recapitalization of four Patriot Fire Units.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Indonesia air force, seeking greater regional collaboration, is considering an offer from Singapore to train pilots of unmanned aircraft.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
ArianeGroup is maintaining its goal of July 2020 for the first flight of the Ariane 6 launcher.
Defense