Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Lee Hudson
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.
Defense

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

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

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

The Pentagon is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government- and non-government-issued devices, applications and services.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a precision tracking demonstration with a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper in the Pacific late Aug. 8, an official said.
Air Dominance

By Lee Hudson
The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
A senior DOD official says a space-based interceptor to go after ballistic missiles is a “relatively easy technological challenge."
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Aerojet Rocketdyne expects to win its “fair share” of a potentially $5-6 billion amount of propulsion work for the DOD's GBSD program, a top executive says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is assessing how Lockheed Martin’s F-35 can be used to deliver kinetic weapons to aid with boost phase intercept.
Air Dominance

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab on Aug. 7 added 10 missions to its growing flight manifest for Electron, a small-satellite launcher.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Inadequate funding is exacerbating the low serviceability of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), the head of the service said.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
TransDigm has signed a new master contract agreement with leading customer Boeing.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The director of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office is following through on his promise to disrupt the way the military does business in space.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
As many as six new aviation companies will be invited to pitch their businesses to potential investors, partners and others at a San Francisco conference.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $22.3m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead material and work to support fiscal 2019 Trident II missile production schedule.

This week the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Utah State University’s 32nd annual Smallsat conference is underway in Logan, Utah.

Security Signals Inc., Cordova, Tennessee, was awarded a $62,207,375 firm-fixed-price foreign military sales (Taiwan) contract for the procurement of the Family of Hand Held Signal.

By Jen DiMascio
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Aug. 7 he supports creating a combatant command for space.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The fleet leader of SpaceX’s growing cadre of reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 boosters will launch for an unprecedented third time later this year, following its second successful launch and landing early Aug. 7.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), now designated the AGM-183A hypersonic missile.
Air Dominance

By Michael Bruno
Consulting company Frost & Sullivan says it expects launch demand for smallsats to increase to 11,740 units total by 2030 with revenue reaching $70.1 billion.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Maxar Technologies has now landed in the bull’s-eye of short-seller Spruce Point Capital Management, an activist investor.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Strategic Command Chief Air Force Gen. John Hyten says he wishes the DOD would have invested more funding in hypersonics tech five years ago.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Switzerland-based Astrocast has signed a contract with Italy’s D-Orbit for a ride-share launch aboard Europe’s Vega rocket.
Defense