Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Molly McMillin
The civil rotorcraft industry delivered 465 aircraft during the first six months of 2017, up 16.8% from the same period a year ago.

BOEING has A$145m ($114m) maintenance contract from Australia for F/A-18A/B fleet, covering ongoing engineering, logistics and maintenance sustainment support.

Industry sentiment in the global aerospace and defense (A&D) supply chain “clearly remains bullish,” according to a midyear A&D review by Mesirow Financial.

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The U.S. Air Force is eyeing more powerful, fuel-efficient engines for extended range and increased stealth as key requirements for its next air superiority fighter.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The last of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) is poised for liftoff on Aug. 18, as the agency looks ahead to transitioning responsibility for its space communications network to commercial systems in the mid 2020s.
Defense

The U.S. Air Force has officially named its new space advocates, as forces within Congress continue their push for a separate Space Corps.
Defense

Only specific portions of Boeing’s current Ground-Based Midcourse Defense contract will be extended beyond the expiration date in December 2018, while MDA takes over lead systems integrator responsibilities.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Russia staked claim to the first Earth-orbiting 3D-printed small satellite Aug. 17 following deployment of the Tomsk TPU-120 by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin outside the International Space Station.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Navy is expected to soon award a contract to Raytheon to integrate a seeker into Tomahawk missiles to enable the weapon to strike a moving target at sea.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India is planning to launch its eighth Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft in the last week of August, an Indian Space Research Organization official says.
Defense

By Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is in the early stages of negotiating the potential sale of as many as 90 Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft to an unidentified international customer.
Defense

Newly revealed satellite images of potential aircraft debris have boosted Australian researchers’ confidence about where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed more than three years ago.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India has decided to buy six AH-64E Apache Longbow attack helicopters for its army’s aviation wing to enhance its strike forces.
Defense

RAYTHEON delivered 4,000th Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile to U.S. Navy.

General aviation delivery results were mixed in the first half of 2017, with an increase in deliveries and a decline in billings.

Raytheon wants to defend Hawaii using “full-caliber” Standard Missile-3 Block 2A exoatmospheric interceptors, paired with its scalable Air and Missile Defense Radar.
Defense

The U.S. Marine Corps prides itself on being the “tip of the spear,” but in East Asia, the “Green Knights” of Marine Fighter Attack Sqdn.-121 are more like the tip of the iceberg, as the first of dozens of war-ready Lockheed Martin F-35 squadrons being stationed in the region over the next decade.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Australia and the Netherlands are to host spares warehouses that will go on to support international fleets of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
“Just as shared, electric, and autonomous vehicles are redefining ground transportation, urban air mobility is poised for massive disruption over the next five years," according to aerospace incubator Starburst.

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation fighter has finally received its official name.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The International Space Station is poised to become quite the clearing house for galactic cosmic ray analysis.
Defense

RAYTHEON appointed former deputy defense secretary Robert Work to its board of directors, effective immediately.

While things remain quiet in Washington during the August congressional recess, a flurry of space launches are taking place around the world.

The University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, California, has been awarded an $8,236,324 cost-reimbursement modification.