Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will nearly quadruple the space it occupies at the Grand Sky research and development park in Grand Forks, North Dakota,.

India’s central auditor is challenging the rationale behind the country’s purchase of eight P-8I Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft from Boeing.

UK UAV developer Blue Bear Systems Research is to work with Cranfield University to create a corridor through national airspace for BVLOS drone testing.

NASA’s $1.6 billion, seven-year Parker Solar Probe mission was developed for the closest-ever reconnaissance of the Sun.

South Africa’s Paramount Group is looking to establish a “center of excellence” for the Dassault Mirage F1.

Cubic will offer government customers an “affordable” ISR UAV capability with expanded range and payload over other existing systems in its class.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, a $29,914,475 firm-fixed-price order providing for the procurement and delivery of 45 end items of Peculiar Support Equipment (PSE).

Maxar Technologies has won one of nine contracts to help the Missile Defense Agency build a prototype missile tracking system.

Pentagon officials are trying to gather feedback from the aerospace and defense industry for the Trump administration’s review of the U.S. automotive industry.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $29.9m U.S. Navy contract for procurement/delivery of 45 end items of Peculiar Support Equipment (PSE) for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

Zipline International is working with the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit to demo the potential for medical drone delivery.

Kaman Aerospace hopes a recently unveiled leasing deal for its K-Max helicopter with Rainier Heli International will help sell the heavy-lift helicopter.

The Pentagon is in the early stages of building a statistical model to predict what U.S. foreign military sales will be executed in the future.

Boeing has a new name for part of its drive to vertically integrate and become a more important player in avionics, and it is hiring Americans.

The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.

NASA has enlisted 13 companies, under agreements totaling an estimated $11 million, for advice on growing a U.S. industrial presence in low Earth orbit.

Thailand has contracted Saab to upgrade the country’s national command and control system for air defense, which is based on the company’s 9AIR product.

A second Bombardier Global 6000 business jet modified for electronic and signals-intelligence-gathering missions has made its first post-conversion flight.

Spire has chosen Arianespace to launch “a significant number” of its cubesats on a Vega rocket in 2019.

Airbus’ Zephyr S high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) has broken its flight time record by flying nonstop for almost 26 days.

In the past four years, companies have worked on 101 different small sat launchers, with 34 in development today, a Northrop Grumman industry survey says.

The DOD has renamed its innovation unit that focuses on attracting nontraditional companies to work on artificial intel, autonomy, human systems, info tech and space.

NASA has selected six U.S.-led enterprises to advance the development of 10 promising new space technologies on three broad fronts.

Fresh off a string of business unit divestitures, Triumph Group expects to slice off several more units this quarter.

RAYTHEON has $13.1m U.S. Air Force contract for Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam) technical support.