Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The London-based Royal United Services Institute suggests the £2 billion budget for the upgrade of the UK’s six Sentry aircraft could better spent on a new platform.

The U.S. Navy says its planned fleet of 160 Boeing EA-18G Growlers is enough for now, but several factors could see that number increase.

China's proposed Long March 9 Moon rocket would be powerful enough to send an object rather larger than the U.S. Lunar Module to the Moon’s surface.

Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has begun producing a new batch of L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft for the Czech Air Force.

Russia’s Progress MS-06 resupply capsule maneuvered toward an automated docking with the Russian segment of the International Space Station following a June 14 launch.

The U.S. Senate has narrowly rejected a challenge to the sale of about $500 million in precision-guided weapons to Saudi Arabia.

Britain needs to “refresh” its Brexit strategy following the country’s June 8 general election results, the chief executive of the UK aerospace trade organization ADS says.

The South Korean Air Force has received and begun operating at least one signals intelligence (sigint) aircraft based on a Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet.

RAYTHEON has $7.5m DARPA contract for Phase 2 of undisclosed research program. Work complete June 2018.

Tuesday morning Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on the department’s budget posture.

EDO Corp., Amityville, New York, is being awarded $15,164,935 for modification P00004 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract.

The XQ-222 and UTAP-22 combat drones, derived from aerial target technology, have already captured the imagination of the U.S. military services stateside but are more obscure concepts on the world stage.

Boeing’s defense and space unit will eliminate a layer of management, affecting 50 employees, and reorganize executive reporting lines starting July 1.

World View Enterprises, Inc. is set for a four-day test flight of its uncrewed Stratollite high-altitude balloon, the longest voyage yet for the rocketless system.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Russia appears to be in violation of the 1992 Open Skies Treaty by restricting where the U.S. and other party nations can fly.

India is getting ready to launch its latest Earth observation satellite in the Cartosat-2 series by the end of this month.

Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force to develop a “threat radar” capable of mimicking foreign-made “medium-range, double-digit” surface-to-air missiles.

Indonesia may be close to finally signing a long-delayed deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighters, as Russia offers the inducement of a local service center.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $413.8m U.S. Air Force contract for 360 Joint Air-to -Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles and tooling and test equipment production. Work complete August 2020. THALES ALENIA SPACE has $130m, 3-year INMARSAT contract for new Global Xpress satellite, targeted for 2019 launch.

The U.S. Navy has reorganized the team set up to monitor the increasingly frequent “physiological episodes” being experienced by F/A-18 pilots. Now called the PMA-265 Physiological Episode Integrated Protect Team, officials from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and several Naval Air Systems Command units will look at each incident to determine a root cause. But in recent testimony to Congress, Vice Adm.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to buy additional Ground-Based Interceptors and activate another two missile silos at Fort Greely, Alaska.

Orbital ATK has eased the margins on its Antares launch vehicle after the performance it turned in last fall with a new Russian-built rocket engine.

Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo said June 12 it will buy Moog’s in-space propulsion businesses in the UK and Ireland.

Germany is to move its Panavia Tornado reconnaissance aircraft from Turkey to Jordan after a long-running diplomatic spat with Ankara.

U.S. Air Force F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, are still temporarily grounded as a government-industry team works to find the root cause of five incidents of hypoxia-like symptoms on the new fighter in the last month.