Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
Portugal plans to declare an initial operating capability with the Embraer KC-390 airlifter by the end of 2021.
Defense

By John Morris
GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The French interior minister has announced the government’s intention to order six additional Q400MR waterbombers, locally designated Dash-8.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon expects to definitize the contract for the latest tranche of low-rate initial production F-35s by the end of the year, along with one for F135 engines made by Pratt & Whitney.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Boeing is establishing a new avionics organization as part of the company’s drive to increase internal capability and reduce cost.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India’s state-run space agency is looking for new manufacturers of rocket parts to boost the country’s launch capability.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky is to refurbish former U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters for firefighting and disaster relief in Australia in the first deal of its kind, the Lockheed Martin company says.
Defense

In the wake of Pyongyang's second successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested Thaad against an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile target.
Defense

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $119.7m U.S. Navy contract for design, development, testing, reverse engineering, and other engineering support of Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems program. Work complete September 2018. LEONARDO has NORWEGIAN POLICE DIRECTORATE contract of undisclosed amount for three AW169 helicopters and 10-year maintenance package.

Raytheon chief executive Tom Kennedy said July 27 his company has no plans to pursue an initial public offering of stock for its Forcepoint cybersecurity joint venture. Raytheon paid $1.9 billion for a majority stake in the then-Websense business in 2015. Kennedy reminded financial analysts in the latest quarterly teleconference that Raytheon made the deal as a long-term play in cyber capabilities.

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Capt. Jeff Haney was flying over Alaska in late 2010 when an engine bleed-air malfunction on his F-22 Raptor caused the control system to shut off oxygen flow to his mask.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines is getting more equipment for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions from the U.S.
Defense

The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus has been blasted with jolts of high-amplitude electromagnetic energy typical of a high-altitude nuclear explosion.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
It may be just business, but already the CEOs of major aerospace equipment makers are sending warning shots to each other as manufacturers increasingly look to capitalize on the aftermarket.
Defense

LEONARDO will continue production of AW159 Wildcat in Yeovilton, UK, rather than move it overseas.

Demonstrations of the U.S. Navy’s electromagnetic railgun are ramping up at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s new railgun Rep-Rate Test Site at Terminal Range.

The July 18 story “Russia’s State Armaments Program Supports MiG-35 Orders” misattributed comments to former MiG CEO Sergei Korotkov.

By Jen DiMascio
Seventeen days after a mishap that killed 16 Marines and sailors, the U.S. Marine Corps is grounding its fleet of 12 KC-130T aircraft out of an abundance of caution.
Defense

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says he supports the diplomatic and economic pressure being applied to North Korea by the White House and State Department, but “time is running out” before Kim Jong-un has an operational system capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
Defense

By Jay Menon
The unmanned, unpowered RLV-TD is a space shuttle-like subscale reusable spaceplane that is launched atop a booster rocket.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Wes Bush, Northrop chairman, chief executive officer and president, said during the company’s second-quarter 2017 teleconference July 27 that there was a “likelihood that an increasing fraction of our business may become restricted.”
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Chris Kubasik, who will swap his COO title at L3 Technologies for CEO at the end of the year, will focus first on trying to find efficiencies in the company’s Aerospace Systems division.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Speaking in Paris as the company announced its half-yearly results, Trappier said French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clearly want Europe “to have a strong Franco-German pillar,” however he said the timescales for such a program were unclear.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The manufacturers have agreed to supply the weapons, says the office, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), presumably meaning that terms have been settled. But there is no mention of government permissions for exporting the missiles.
Defense