Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By swapping Bushmasters for e-blasters, BAE Systems wants to bring its high-power microwave (HPM) energy technology to the high seas.

Global aviation aftermarket services provider AAR says Chairman/CEO David Storch will retire as chief executive and President/COO John Holmes will become CEO.

The long-expected Japanese acquisition of the Raytheon SM-3 Block 2A ballistic-missile interceptor has begun.

Two former executives of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo have been acquitted in a corruption case.

Airbus has rolled out the first complete A330-based BelugaXL transport aircraft airframe as the firm pushes for the first flight of the airlifter by mid-2018.

RAYTHEON has $10.2m U.S. Navy contract for incorporation of Block II plus engineering change proposal into 100 Lot 17 AIM-9X missiles.

This week Congress continues working to avert a government shutdown on Jan. 19 when the current stopgap spending measure expires.

Melwood Inc., Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was awarded an $18,552,775 firm-fixed-price contract for base operations at Fort Meade, Maryland.

A think tank report about DOD contract bid protests suggested new “traffic court”-like adjudication of low-level litigation and other minor reforms.

Arianespace is planning a record number of launches in 2018, as the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launchers are expected to total 14 flights.

A former Indonesian Air Force chief has been interviewed by the country’s anti-graft agency concerning irregularities in the purchase of a Leonardo AW101.

The joint venture developing a space-based surveillance system based on ADS-B aircraft position reporting has signed a data services agreement.

Devi Prasad Karnik, director of public relations at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), did not characterize the change in schedule as a delay. “The earlier stated launch date of January 10 was merely tentative,” he said.

SpaceX said the Jan. 7 launch of the classified Zuma mission appeared to have been successful, but questions about the spacecraft’s health surfaced the following day.

The Mexican Navy’s new long-range patrol vessel could be armed with some of the U.S.’s best naval missiles and torpedoes, despite tense relations with the U.S.

The USAF temporarily grounded more than 24 A-10 Warthogs at an Arizona service base late last year after multiple pilots reported hypoxia-like symptoms in flight.

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $11.7m U.S. Navy contract for procurement of Advanced Radar Processor (ARP) hardware sets for the E-2D to support the ARP operational test phase and counter electronic attack development test phase between 2019 and 2020.

‘Electric truck manufacturer Workhorse Group has received FAA experimental certification for its SureFly electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype ahead of a first flight planned for Jan. 8, as the CES consumer electronics show opens in Las Vegas.

Textron is stretching an ongoing corporate restructuring to include consolidation within the Bell, Textron Systems and Industrial segments.

L3 Technologies is charging ahead with replacing the USAF’s fleet of EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack aircraft with a new business jet-based platform.

High-profile camera maker GoPro announced Jan. 8 it is getting out of the consumer unmanned air vehicle (UAV) business as part of major restructuring and layoff plan.

Blue Origin is continuing tests of a full-scale BE-4 rocket engine in West Texas, the company said Jan. 8.

UK defense contractor Babcock and Elbit Systems have partnered to bid for the UK’s Air Support to Defense Operational Training live-air training requirement.

Dulles, Virgina-based Orbital ATK was selected by Intelsat to build the Galaxy 30 communications satellite, the first in the constellation’s replacement program, Orbital said on Jan. 8.