NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will remain closed at least through Thursday while a damage assessment team continues inspections to determine Hurricane Irma’s toll.
The third quarter of 2017 was not kind to Passur Aerospace, with the business intelligence, predictive analytics and big data company recently announcing a 13% drop in year-over revenue.
L3 Technologies has bought Adaptive Methods, a systems engineering company specializing in undersea and antisubmarine warfare services for the U.S. military.
Work on India’s first lunar lander is almost complete as the Indian space agency targets March 2018 for its launch as part of the country’s second lunar exploration mission.
Ducommun has completed the acquisition of the corporate parent of Lightning Diversion Systems, a provider of lightning protection systems across the aerospace and defense industry.
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor specializing in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has succeeded in its acquisition of engineering services group CDI.
Less than a year after the Canadian government started negotiating with Boeing to buy 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets, the U.S. State Department let Congress know on Sept. 11 it had approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of the aircraft.
Leonardo says the AW149, a military spinoff of its AW189 commercial offering, would make an ideal replacement for the Puma if the type is retired at its current out-of-service date of 2025.
The U.S. Air Force’s largest nuclear cruise missile program since the Cold War can proceed unencumbered, with Boeing deciding not to protest the service’s Aug. 23 awards to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
Satellite developer Cloud Constellation has formally selected Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket to deploy the first 12 spacecraft forming its initial SpaceBelt constellation of space-based cloud storage data centers.
Just months before the U.S. Air Force is slated to choose an industry team to begin developing a new aircraft to replace its existing battlefield command-and-control and surveillance fleet, the service appears to be considering scrapping the program altogether.
Sierra Nevada Corp. has filed a bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s cancellation of the Fixed-wing Utility Aircraft competition.
British concept work into rotary-wing unmanned air systems could result in the development of a production platform for use by the British Army and Royal Navy, Leonardo officials say.
Saab has lifted the veil on a specialized red-air aggressor version of its Gripen fighter in a bid to grab a share of the burgeoning air combat training market.
AIRBUS DEFENSE AND SPACE completed first flight of first A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport for France Sept. 7 in Madrid. First delivery due next year. BOEING is one of six companies sharing a $499m U.S. Air Force contract for the Aerospace Systems Air Platform Technology Research program. UK DEFENSE MINISTRY announced competition for Royal Navy Type 31e frigates, with price cap of £250m ($330m) each for the first batch of five.
Brazil’s defense budget—the largest in Latin America—is set to grow this year, following several years in which it failed to keep pace with inflation, according to Forecast International. “Brazil continues to make progress on a number of major acquisition programs, such as the FX-2 and KC-390,” the consultancy says. “However, with budgets declining, future purchases will be limited.” This year, the country’s defense ministry is set to receive a 13.3% increase, to BRL93.3 billion ($29.3 billion).
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, demand for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services generated by Western-designed maritime helicopters will total $47.3 billion. Over this period, annual demand will grow 7%, from $4.5 billion to $4.8 billion.
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