Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The UK has conducted its biggest trial yet of drones operating alongside manned aircraft in controlled airspace.

The UK has conducted its biggest trial yet of drones operating alongside manned aircraft in controlled airspace.

The U.S. government has asked Lockheed Martin and potentially other defense companies to boost their missile-making capacity.

The U.S. will reassess Turkey’s continued F-35 participation as one of eight partner nations should it buy Russia’s S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system.

In addition to landing successfully, NASA’s Mars Insight mission scored another triumph with the companion MarCO 6U cubesat duo.

The Pentagon is standing up a congressionally mandated, cross-functional team to address electronic warfare gaps throughout the military services.

The first prototype of the Ilyushin Il-112V light transport was rolled out Nov. 27 at the Voroznezh-based VASO facility, a subsidiary of Russia’s UAC.

Harris and Comtech PST will compete for the U.S. Navy’s low-band version of the Next Generation Jammer pod as part of Northrop Grumman’s team.

Switzerland’s Kopter Group has begun flying the improved third prototype of its SH09 light single-turbine helicopter.

F-35 maker Lockheed Martin has cut the cost of the “full-mission simulator” used to train pilots on the fifth-gen fighter by 25% per simulator since 2012.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ last squadron of Northrop Grumman EA-6B airborne jammers has completed its final deployment and entered a yearlong deactivation process.

Boeing and the U.S. have agreed to back a proposed Japanese upgrade program for F-15s, as Tokyo also reportedly plans to buy 100 more F-35 Lightnings.

UK company Horizon Technologies is flight testing its Xtender satphone intercept system on a small quadcopter.

The partnership augments an Amazon Web Services Ground Station set of 12 parabolic antennas with a service provided by a new Lockheed Martin antenna network called Verge.

IMI SYSTEMS signed agreement to transfer shares to ELBIT SYSTEMS Nov. 25 in Jerusalem.

This week a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch Spaceflight’s SSO-A rideshare mission from Vandenberg AFB, California.

Vista Outdoor Sales LLC, Federal Cartridge Co., Anoka, Minnesota, has been awarded a $41,181,315 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for 5.56mm ball, carbine, barrier ammunition.

Italdesign has flow a quarter-scale model of the Pop.Up Next modular air/ground vehicle, an electric eVTOL urban air mobility concept developed with Audi and Airbus.

Saab’s second Gripen E test aircraft, designated 39-9, completed a 33-min. first flight from Linkoping, Sweden, on Nov. 26.

Newly infused with Rockwell Collins, United Technologies announced late Nov. 26 it will spin off non-aerospace business units Carrier and Otis.

The newly posted Pacific Air Forces chief is getting smart on space systems and says there will be an increase of space planners in two combatant commands.

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory will provide a range of options to the commandant for counter-unmanned aircraft system air domain surveillance.

The U.S. Navy is seeking an autonomous cargo-unmanned aerial system and will host an experiment in March to transport a 50-lb. payload.

India’s space agency plans to launch its HysIS Earth observation spacecraft this week, along with 30 smaller piggyback satellites from eight countries.

Boeing has received a new contract to deliver A/MH-6 primary airframe structures to U.S. Army Special Forces, but a bitter legal dispute with the original supplier is continuing.