Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Air Force’s F-35A made its first appearance on the Korean peninsula this week, a clear sign of U.S. muscle.

Germany and France have taken the next steps in the creation of a joint air transport unit flying the Lockheed C-130J Hercules.

NASA is laying the groundwork for spacewalking International Space Station astronauts to repair vital internal cooling system pumps on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

News network CNN has been approved to fly drones over crowds, becoming the first operator granted a waiver to FAA rules banning flights over people.

LEONARDO and HANWHA SYSTEMS signed agreement to jointly provide aircraft targeting systems to South Korea and other customers.

Norsk Titanium, on Oct. 17, formally begun operations at its Plattsburgh Development & Qualification Center in upstate New York.

Privately owned Blue Origin completed its first successful hotfire test of a full-scale methane-fueled BE-4 rocket engine that is expected to not only power Blue’s fleet of reusable orbital New Glenn vehicles, but also replace the Russian-made engines used by United Launch Alliance boosters.

“No enemy in the field has done more to harm the warfighting readiness of our military than sequestration,” the defense secretary wrote in a letter to armed services lawmakers.

U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command has given the go-ahead for more than 300 Air National Guard-operated pre-Block 40 Lockheed Martin F-16s to be fitted with the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System.

Boeing has invested in autonomous navigation specialist Near Earth Autonomy through its venture capital arm HorizonX.

Engineers at French aerospace research center Onera are designing a wind tunnel test model that could pave the way for greater airframe-engine integration in the future.

Hanhwa and South Korea’s defense technology organization are developing an anti-armor missile for the Korea Aerospace Industries LAH light-attack helicopter.

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office says a mystery payload known as Zuma, which is slated to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 next month, does not belong to the NRO.

Bahrain has not yet approved a $3.8 billion deal to purchase new F-16s, despite reports that a contract was signed.

Building on an existing partnership, space habitat developer Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance will jointly pursue a plan to put a free-flying Bigelow module into a low lunar orbit as early as 2022.

A more than two-decade effort by NASA to improve the oversight of the agency’s wide-ranging and dispersed Information Technology activities remains flawed, according to a new IG's report.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $15.2m U.S. Navy contract to integrate ZPY-8A/N radar into MQ-8C Fire Scout.

The United Arab Emirates’ Digi Robotics says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Civil Defense to develop a hybrid rotary/fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to fight fires in high-rise buildings.

As the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornets reach the end of their planned service life, Boeing is eyeing an exhaustive overhaul.

The launch of Europe’s Euclid telescope will be delayed due to a newly found flaw in U.S.-built detectors, the head of NASA’s astrophysics division says.

The Lockheed Martin F-16, Boeing B-52 and Northrop Grumman B-2 are next in line to receive the U.S. Air Force’s newest non-nuclear cruise missile, the Jassm-ER.

Air forces operating the Boeing F-15 Eagle are almost universally interested in the MBDA Meteor becoming available as a weapon for the fighter, Boeing says.

Northrop Grumman has purchased a previously undisclosed Falcon 9 launch from SpaceX to fly a payload known only as “Zuma.”

South Korea’s defense technology organization and Hanwha are working toward completing development of a tactical ballistic missile by the end of 2018.

RAYTHEON has $7.8m U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract for H-60 spare parts.