Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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.

By Irene Klotz
“We want to understand how to predict and monitor solar eruptions that affect us on Earth,” said astronomer Jay Pasachoff with Williams College in Massachusetts.
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By Michael Bruno
The U.S. is the top-ranked nation for aerospace manufacturing, and Georgia is the top state within it, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2017 Aerospace Manufacturing Attractiveness Rankings index.
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is confident based on design analysis and cost modeling that the Kratos-built XQ-58A Valkyrie will meet the objective range of 3,000 mi. and align with cost targets of $2-3 million per unit.
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By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Additive manufacturing provider Sciaky has chosen Siemens’ product life cycle management software to support its Electronic Beam Additive Manufacturing technology.

By Michael Bruno
A Texas jury has awarded Elbit Systems more than $21 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against satellite services provider EchoStar.
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By Marhalim Abas
Thailand wants to purchase Boeing RGM-84L Harpoon anti-ship missiles for a frigate nearing completion in South Korea.
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By Tony Osborne
A U.S. company is set to purchase a fleet of former British Royal Air Force (RAF) Lockheed L-1011 Tristar tanker aircraft with the aim of offering civilian refueling services to the U.S. Navy and NATO air arms.
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By Graham Warwick
Chinese manufacturer DJI is developing a local data mode that allows users to fly their vehicles without connecting to the internet.
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By Graham Warwick
Insitu’s commercial arm Inexa Solutions is offering aerial reconnaissance services for fighting wildfires using its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
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To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Aug. 15-20—MAKS 2017 - International Aviation and Space Salon, Zhukovsky, Russia. For more information go to http://www.spaceagenda.com/future-events/

LOCKHEED MARTIN completed integration of Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, satellite, based on company’s A2100 bus. Next is final assembly and testing; launch in Q2 2018. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has $ 9m U.S. Army contract for basic research in quantum computing. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $12.9m U.S. Army contract for Squad X Experimentation program to design, develop, and validate system prototypes for a combined-arms squad.

Northrop Grumman has won a U.S. Air Force contract to upgrade the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-Stars) fleet's radio terminals to be able to better track threats on the move.

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The U.S. Army’s 110-lb. experimental electro-optical imaging satellite is heading toward the International Space Station after taking off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 14.
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By Michael Bruno
President Donald Trump on Aug. 14 kicked off a formal inquiry into alleged Chinese intellectual property theft, highlighting major defense prime contractor Raytheon in the process.
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By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has issued a safety bulletin to operators of the Tiger attack helicopter following the crash of a German Army-operated aircraft in Mali in late July.
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By Mark Carreau
As NASA turns its human exploration focus toward deep space, the agency is searching beyond traditional borders for the innovation needed to achieve its challenging aspirations of establishing and sustaining a human presence in the lunar and Martian environs.
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The new director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has vowed to set realistic expectations for how quickly new counter-missile technologies can be introduced.
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By Tony Osborne
Bahrain is to become a C-130J Hercules operator after purchasing two former British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft through a government-to-government deal.
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By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon has announced that Lockheed Martin won the new 10-year, $8 billion U.S. Special Operations Command’s logistics and sustainment support program.
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By Tony Osborne
The sudden advances in North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile capability have been made possible by illicit access to the Soviet-era RD-250 liquid-propellant engine, a missile expert has claimed.
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By Guy Norris
Northrop Grumman is using an X-47B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) as a flying testbed for air refueling systems in support of its proposal for the U.S. Navy’s upcoming MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker contest.
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