Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts has established a Naval Agility Campaign Task Force to elevate and scale policies, tools, practices and training.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon has opened a facility on its Massachusetts-based campus that includes advanced automation technology to support complex radar testing and integration.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has made its second investment in metal additive manufacturing through its HorizonX ventures unit.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A National Academies assessment of NASA’s Planetary Science Program urges the space agency to pick up the pace of small and medium-priced missions.
Defense

By Bill Carey
There were 25% fewer instances of drones interfering with wildland firefighting efforts as of July when compared to the same time last year, the DOI says.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Low-cost launch start-up company Relativity Space plans to accelerate development of its Terran 1 small satellite mid-size launch vehicle by introducing an even larger 3D printer to augment its manufacture.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Army is looking for space and missile defense research into many topics, including “tactically responsive space.”
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
A test of a Chinese hypersonic wave-rider on Aug. 3 was in part aimed at demonstrating a new thermal conduction system and booster-payload separation under high dynamic pressure.
Defense

SIERRA NEVADA CORP. has $12.5m U.S. Navy contract for work on AN/SPN-35D automated landing system radar design maturation, integration and testing.

Weapons sales bolstered defense-company revenues in the second quarter, and the trend is continuing.

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX on Aug. 7 plans to demonstrate the first reuse of a Falcon 9 Block 5 booster.
Defense

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By Graham Warwick
Darpa has demonstrated algorithms that could enable small commercial drones to become autonomous scouts in urban battle zones or searchers for survivors inside buildings damaged by natural disasters.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Small satellite startup Terran Orbital has raised $36 million from investors, including Pentagon prime Lockheed Martin.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force has issued a notice of proposed contract action for light attack aircraft and is limiting the competition to Sierra Nevada and Textron.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
A new report by Grand View Research estimates the global aerospace and defense materials market will reach $27.44 billion by 2025.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
Israel Aerospace Industries is quietly developing a “soft kill” interceptor that will work in conjunction with the company’s Drone Guard counter-UAS system.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The five F-35s touched down after dusk at Marham on Aug. 3, joining the four aircraft that arrived in June.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The DOD is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government and nongovernment issued devices, apps and services while in operational areas.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Launch broker Spaceflight has begun integrating 71 satellites for a dedicated smallsat mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this fall.
Defense