Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. part of U.K.-based BAE Systems could be responsible for roughly half of the aerospace and defense prime contractor’s annual sales come 2020.

NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold exchanged a pair of external ISS thermal control system components during a May 16 spacewalk.

The Israeli Air Force has completed the upgrade of its first C-130H after a yearlong modification that extends the aircraft’s lifespan with advanced avionics.

India’s space agency plans to add four backup navigation satellites to keep its indigenous navigation satellite system effective.

U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command has ID'd 9 key areas where it seeks tech advances to assure a comparative advantage over peer and near-peer foes.

A U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk is to be converted to full-authority digital flight control under a cooperative research and development agreement with Sikorsky.

Bell’s V-280 advanced tiltrotor has flown in cruise mode, with nacelles horizontal, finishing the transition from vertical to forward flight for the 1st time.

Aircraft structures and parts provider Triumph Group has divested three more business units as the company’s slogs through a corporate turnaround.

BOEING has $16.2m U.S. Air Force contract for BLU-127 warhead cases.

Tuesday morning the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee will hear testimony on U.S. Army posture from service secretary Mark Esper and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and more.

The Boeing Co., Mesa, Arizona, has been awarded a maximum $39,169,336 firm-fixed-price delivery order (ZB81) against a five-year contract (SPE4A1-14-G-0007) for rotary wing blades.

Development of the improved Boeing CH-47F Block II version of the Chinook heavylift helicopter for the U.S. Army is accelerating.

When the Vulcan rocket debuts in 2020, its Centaur upper stage will be powered by Aerojet Rocketdyne’s’s RL10 engines.

The U.S. Army is gathering potential requirements for another evolution of the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

Fighter aircraft, combat helicopters and transports supplied to Israel from the U.S. are almost immediately being upgraded.

Barely a few years into making significant digital investments, some A&D executives already may be at risk of losing patience with the changes, a study says.

Certifiable flight and ground control software for UAVs that is based on a system developed by NASA for spacecraft has been flight tested by Windhover Labs.

During a 1997 flyby of Jupiter moon Europa, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft appears to have flown through an eruptive watery plume over 600 mi. long, a study says.

The rapid emergence of urban air mobility (UAM) and eVTOL vehicles has taken NASA by surprise, but the agency is developing plans for a “Grand Challenge” that would help “raise the water level” across the nascent industry.

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RAYTHEON has $242m U.S. Navy foreign military sales contract for Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 guided missile round pack, missile ordnance alterations and spares for Qatar, and $7.4m contract for RAM upgraded Mk. 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement program.

The first launch of Area-I’s Altius tube-launched unmanned aircraft from a special-operations gunship has been conducted.

Sierra Nevada/Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano and Textron Aviation’s AT-6B Wolverine are in the second phase of the U.S. Air Force’s Light Attack Experiment.

Darpa video shows flight tests of an unmanned-aircraft airborne launch and recovery system conducted by Dynetics in the second phase of the Gremlins program.

Mark Geyer, a former deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Center and Orion program manager, will replace Ellen Ochoa as director of the Houston field center.