Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

FLIR Systems is to supply the U.S. Army with a batch of Black Hornet nano-UAVs as the initial delivery under the service’s Soldier Borne Sensors (SBS) program.

Airbus Helicopters says it is mulling the future of its assembly line in Romania due to an apparent lack of commitment from the government in Bucharest.

Boeing’s chief executive has laid out three priorities to watch for in how the company spends its gains in the coming years.

GA-ASI is touting its ability to speed testing of the engine it has picked for the UAV it has proposed for the USN's carrier-based refueling program, the MQ-25.

SNC is emphasizing the “pseudo-partnership” with government in its Sierra Force plan to rebuild ex-U.S. Army UH-60s for the USAF UH-1N Replacement competition.

Raytheon is investing $100 million in a new 50,000-sq.-ft. facility in Mississippi that will be a “hub” for test, integration and production of S-band radars.

The top U.S. trade association for the aerospace industry has a few ideas about how to expedite the nation’s notoriously slow system of exporting defense items.

Turkey has reportedly landed its largest-ever defense export contract to sell 30 T129 ATAK attack helicopters to Pakistan.

RAYTHEON has $90m U.S. Air Force contract for AN/ALR-69A digital radar warning receiver foreign military sales production requirements for Japan.

One year into Canada’s plan to boost defense spending by 73% over the decade ending in 2026-27, Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan says the ministry is beginning to see results and is seeding innovation.

The P-8 Poseidon is a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) produced by Boeing based on their 737 airliner.

RAYTHEON has $90m U.S. Air Force contract for AN/ALR-69A digital radar warning receiver foreign military sales production requirements for Japan.

Eric Fanning, who leads the trade association for the U.S. aerospace industry, is worried about a backlash to the trade tariffs set to be imposed by the U.S.

The FAA will no longer use RTCA as an official federal advisory committee, changing a relationship with the influential standards entity that dates to 1976.

Indonesian Aerospace has begun deliveries of the latest version of the C212 transport, handing over two aircraft to Vietnam.

A new application has emerged for the compact electronically scanned radar startup Echodyne has developed for sense-and-avoid on small UAS.

Total Technology, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (W15QKN-18-D-0073); Pioneering Decisive Solutions, California, Maryland (W15QKN-18-D-0078); Logisys Technical Services, Huntsville, Alabama (W15QKN-18-D-0077), will compete for each order of the $125,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for automated test system testing, and diagnostics and net-centric support services.

BOEING has $25.7m U.S. Army contract for eight CH-47F new-build helicopters for Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command.

Distinguishing the subtle differences in behavior between innocent bystanders and enemy combatants hiding among them is at the core of a new Darpa program.

Italy and Greece will perform air policing for the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro beginning June 5, the NATO alliance has announced.

Ukraine is to purchase 55 helicopters from France to renew its parapublic rotary-wing fleet.

A pair of private equity investors targeting the federal marketplace have taken over LinQuest, a space systems provider to defense and intelligence agencies.

Despite ongoing reforms, NASA has failed to accurately size up the value and performance of hundreds of reimbursable agreements.

Japan’s ruling party has called for the country to spend 2% of GDP, double the limit that Japan has observed for almost six decades.

At least 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency services agencies in the U.S. have acquired drones, a new study says.