Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Airbus is taking the Polish government to an arbitration tribunal over Warsaw’s conduct in canceling a multibillion-dollar contract for multimission helos.

India has approved the purchases of precision-guided bombs from Russia and Barak missiles from Israel in deals worth a total of about $270 million.

NORDAM GROUP INC. has $52.4m and BOEING has $49.1m in U.S. Navy contracts for the repair of F/A-18 A-D series aircraft outer wing panels.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded the Boeing Co. an estimated $17.5 million contract modification for C/KC-135 engineering sustainment support.

UTAS, a division of Goodrich, Westford, Massachusetts, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an initial ceiling of $22,899,665, predominately firm-fixed-price.

Textron recently seized a chance to prove its Scorpion light fighter could be the right fit as a low-cost alternative to existing ISR platforms for the USAF.

The U.S. Air Force is clamping down on quality controls among its EELV suppliers after the Pentagon’s inspector general identified 181 nonconformities.

Sciaky says it sold four of its multimillion-dollar EBAM electron beam additive manufacturing machines in December.

AeroVironment has formed a joint venture with Japanese telecommunications provider SoftBank to develop “high-altitude pseudo-satellites,” or HAPS.

The abdication of TransDigm Group’s CFO may not have anything to do with the company's financial situation, but it could add to investor hesitations.

Leonardo has received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its AW109 Trekker twin-engine light helicopter.

First there were “big-bus” satellites, then nanosats, microsats and cubesats. Now come the advent of “Microns.”

The U.S. Army has tapped Kratos subsidiary Composite Engineering to deliver a high-performance aerial target drone.

Minority- and women-owned businesses saw a drop in DOD contracting during much of the Obama administration, but the dip was far smaller than for all of the DOD's contractors.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $7b, 10-year U.S. Air Force contract for F-22 sustainment.

Filippo Bagnato, head of Leonardo’s aircraft division, is retiring at the end of January.

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Russia’s Energia Corporation seems to have restored the connection with Angola’s first communication satellite, launched from Baikonur on Dec. 26.

An experiment pairing the skills of an ISS astronaut with two technologies succeeded in demonstrating a full microbial ID process in a microgravity environment.

The Islamic State is crumbling in Iraq and Syria, but there is no end in sight for those at the heart of the U.S.-led air campaign against the militant group.

Motion and control tech provider Parker Hannifin and the Justice Department have reached an antitrust deal over the company’s $4.3 billion purchase of Clarcor.

Turkey has finalized a deal with Russia to purchase the S-400 Triumph (SA-21 Growler) missile defense system, in a move that is likely to irritate NATO allies.

Uncertainty continues to surround France’s bid to sell Rafale fighter jets to Belgium after Paris reportedly offered a fivefold increase in return on investment if Brussels selects the French fighter.

Nigeria says the U.S. has taken the next steps in approving a long-delayed deal for the African country to purchase 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft.