Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

NASA has awarded Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, a potential $1.12 billion, long-term contract to provide technical, administrative and managerial services at Johnson Space Center.

The 48th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing came and went with relative quiet.

Bad weather has been blamed for the fatal crash of a Myanmar military transport aircraft on June 7.

“Though the review is still in process, the SM-3 Block 2A interceptor and Aegis Combat System have been eliminated as the potential root cause,” MDA Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves tells Aviation Week.

BOEING has $27m U.S. Special Operations Command contract for manufacturing of Block 2 MH-47G aircraft.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is trying to help attract the brightest minds to uncover the cause of the mysterious problems service pilots have experienced with symptoms of hypoxia.

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UAC president Yury Slyusar said July 19 that the light transport is now expected to take off in the first half of 2018, almost a year behind the initial schedule.

Supersonic-airliner startup Boom Technologies believes sufficient research has already been conducted for the FAA to set a standard.

NASA has taken delivery of a second P2006T fuselage from Tecnam for use in the X-57 Maxwell distributed electric propulsion flight demonstration program.

As aircraft become more integrated, and their systems more interconnected, traditional design tools are struggling to manage the increasing complexity.

Textron Aviation revenue decreased $25 million during the second quarter of 2017, with a decline in demand for Caravan and King Air turboprops and lower volumes on Beechcraft T-6 military trainers.

NASA has issued a request for information for in-space electric propulsion concepts which could potentially power the agency’s proposed Deep Space Gateway.

A South Korean government watchdog has criticized the Korea Aerospace Industries Surion military helicopter project amid an investigation into corruption at the company.

An instructor pilot from the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB noticed he was lightheaded and short of breath during a local training flight on July 10.

India’s space agency and NASA have begun building hardware for the joint Nisar dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite, due for launch in 2021.

Congress is weighing the return on investment from its high-priority but costly Mars 2020 rover and Europa Clipper missions.

Russia’s Mil Mi-38 heavy transport twin engine helicopter finally has a customer.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $41.8m foreign military sales contract for computer program maintenance in support of Royal Australian Navy Hobart class ships.

The U.S. Army has awarded Leonardo DRS a $16 million contract to develop a counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS).

L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Mississippi, is being awarded $8,790,461 for modification P00022 to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery requirements contract

Several foreign nations will be sending representatives to watch the U.S. Air Force’s light attack experiment.

Russian aircraft corporation MiG has been thrown a lifeline by the Russian government.

The quarter-scale aircraft, a flying wing 3 m (10 ft.) in length and span, made a 7-min autonomous flight on July 18, completing a pre-programmed course over the Overberg test site.

Earth-i is planning to launch a constellation of Earth observation spacecraft that will provide full-color video images at high-frequency revisit rates.