Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing and Saab announced June 7 that their Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) successfully engaged a moving target that was 100 km (62 mi.) away.

A Turkish program to develop an indigenous turboshaft engine has completed its first major milestone with the ignition of the engine core.

Pratt & Whitney is refining its proposed upgrade path for the F135 Joint Strike Fighter engine to include increased power and thermal management capability.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled that the fate of the International Space Station is not as dire as it may have seemed in President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget request.

Bridenstine said the Trump administration’s position on ISS funding has forced a conversation about what comes next.

Frost & Sullivan says the global additive manufacturing (AM) materials market for the aerospace industry will reach $535.1 million by 2024.

Specialty aerospace parts supplier Esterline Technologies has warned its fiscal 3rd-quarter earnings results will be lower than the company’s previous forecast.

BOEING has $862.2m U.S. Navy contract for 15 F/A-18E and 3 F/A-18F Lot 42 full rate production aircraft for the Navy.

Wednesday morning the House Armed Services airland subcommittee will hear testimony on the aviation mishap oversight and review process.

Bell Boeing JPO, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $47,385,038 for cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order N0001918F0016 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-17-G-0002).

The U.S. Air Force is looking toward high-speed vehicles that can be refurbished and ultimately be fully reusable.

Pratt & Whitney on June 12 unveiled GatorWorks, a prototyping office that will aim for rapid and agile development of lower-cost military engines.

The U.S. Army plans to take a different approach to procuring a small munition for the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle that can double the loadout of the UAS.

Aero Vodochody is looking to offer its L-39NG and L-159 light attack aircraft as potential competitors for a future U.S. Air Force light attack aircraft.

Biology and biotechnology experiments soon headed for the International Space Station could have a number of far-reaching implications.

The Philippines has reiterated the desire of President Rodrigo Duterte to order 12 more Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light attack jets.

The Qatar Emiri Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin’s Sniper targeting pod for its Dassault Rafale fighters, the company announced June 12.

India’s national space agency is planning to build at least six remote-sensing satellites to monitor weather and atmospheric conditions.

A British company using small unmanned air vehicles for photogrammetry has carried out beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights over land in nonsegregated airspace.

Turkish unmanned air system manufacturer Baykar Makina has unveiled the first major components for its planned Akinci unmanned air system.

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AIRBUS closed deal to acquire majority stake in BOMBARDIER C Series airliner, effective July 1.

The International Space Station (ISS) resumed six-person operations early June 8 after a brief crew exchange with the docking of Russia’s Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft and its U.S., Russian and European crew—Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev and Alexander Gerst.

Dynetics is to produce up to 1,000 GBU-69/B Small Glide Munitions a year for the USSOCOM in a massive ramp-up in production of the company-developed weapon.

From surviving in contested airspace to supplying remote areas, interest in unmanned transport and tanker aircraft is growing.