Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

SpaceX successfully deployed the long-delayed FormoSat-5 remote sensing satellite into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 24.

Russian Helicopters’ Mil Moscow design bureau has been contracted by the Russian defense ministry to work on the concept of a high-speed attack helicopter.

A group of drones will do battle this fall as part of a competition hosted by U.S. Special Operations Command and the Pentagon’s secretive innovation office.

United Aircraft Corp. is talking with the Russian military about the possibility of modernizing one its bestsellers—the Sukhoi Su-30SM two-seat multirole fighter.

Russian Helicopters has produced the first Mi-28UB helicopters and plans to deliver eight of the dual-control rotorcraft before year’s end.

India has issued its biggest-ever global tender to procure more than 230 new multi-role maritime helicopters, in an attempt to address the growing shortage of helicopters available for deployment on its warships.

BELL BOEING has $32m U.S. Navy contract for V-22 parts repair.

Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) has chosen BAE Systems to supply the cockpit display system for the jet trainer that the Taiwanese company launched into full-scale development in April.

U.S. Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to work on a replacement for the aging AGM-86B nuclear-capable cruise missile carried by the B-52.

Military flight doctors are playing a crucial role in the Pentagon’s effort to understand and prevent hypoxia-like cockpit incidents.

In developing a jet trainer, Taiwan has begun in the middle, the defense ministry’s technology agency says.

Computers in spacecraft trade performance for reliability in a harsh environment, but BAE Systems has narrowed the gap between terrestrial and spaceborne processing with its latest generation of radiation-hardened processor.

Flight tests of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian Predator B variant have expanded to encompass longer-range excursions including initial flights through non-restricted airspace.

Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost A3 (“A-Cubed”) has selected Near Earth Autonomy to provide landing zone assessment technology as part of the sense-and-avoid suite on its Vahana autonomous single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator.

Canadian CF-188 Hornet fighters have arrived in Romania in readiness for a four-month air policing mission.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will have access to an air base in Western Australia for a further 25 years under an agreement signed on Aug. 21.

German defense electronics firm Hensoldt has acquired avionics supplier EuroAvionics GmbH from its owners, Equistone Partners Europe.

The Philippines has received a radar-carrying aerostat donated by the U.S. that will provide continuous surveillance of air and maritime traffic.

The Israeli Air Force has conducted aerial refueling tests with its first F-35s as it pushes to achieve an initial operating capability by year’s end.

NORDAM will manufacture spare F/A-18 A-D Hornet leading-edge flaps under a new five-year strategic agreement with BOEING through June 2022.

Critics of a push by House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) to privatize air traffic control are seizing on a new Congressional Budget Office assessment.

Ibis Tek, Butler, Pennsylvania, was awarded an $18,061,974 modification (P00034) to contract W56HZV-13-C-0036 for the purchase of a family of medium tactical vehicles.

Until his selection as a NASA astronaut candidate in June, U.S. Navy Lt. Cdr. Matthew Dominick was serving as department head for Strike Fighter Squadron 115 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the waters off the coast of the Korean peninsula.

Contributors from beyond the U.S. are helping to raise the $5 million needed to restore NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control Center.

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract to run a spares warehouse for the Asia-Pacific fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.