Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The UK House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee has concerns about the UK defense ministry’s £178 billion ($229 billion) defense equipment and support plan.

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Development of new engine for the U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache could grind to a halt if Congress cannot reach a budget deal for fiscal 2017.

Exploration Mission-1, NASA’s planned first flight of its heavy-lift Space Launch System and Orion deep-space crew capsule, won’t make its target launch date of November 2018.

Airbus has begun negotiations with A400M customers in a bid to resolve the airlifter’s ongoing delays and technical issues.

Saab’s Gripen looks likely to become Bulgaria’s next fighter after a government working group gave the aircraft a thumbs up.

NASA’s Inspector General has found the agency lagging in efforts to develop a new spacesuit for future human deep-space missions.

The U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center has more data scientists under its purview than the Air Force Research Laboratory, the center’s commander told MRO Americas.

The Cassini spacecraft emerged apparently unbattered from its first ring plane crossing at Saturn.

AVX has proposed a Cobra-style low-drag airframe coupled with the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor’s plug-on wing and rotor system as an armed Osprey escort.

Aerospace component and structures manufacturer GKN Aerospace is looking toward Asia for its next major acquisition, chief executive Kevin Cummings says.

India is working to increase the number of its satellite launches to 12 per year from about the current eight.

Getting most or all NATO members to spend the alliance goal of 2% each of GDP on defense would be laudable, but do not expect that to translate into too much revenue for the defense industry, an analyst says.

BOEING and SAAB completed 1-hr. first flight of second production-ready T-X trainer.

Intelsat S.A. has signed a deal with Morocco’s INWI to integrate satellite services from the Intelsat Epic platform into INWI’s network.

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NASA’s associate administrator for science is overseeing an effort to shape ongoing agency programs to line up with a renewed emphasis on discovering extraterrestrial life.

Lockheed Martin is finalizing the sale of six Fury UAVs to an undisclosed Middle East customer.

Helsinki has yet to eliminate any of the five fighter manufacturers who responded to the request for information sent out by the Finnish Defense Forces’ Logistics Command back in April 2016.

The government has approved the latest iteration of the F-35’s troubled fleet management system, which fully integrates data from the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, for installation on U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force sites.

Boeing managed to make a positive start to 2017 with strong earnings, despite marginal revenue declines across its businesses.

The ship, expected to be named after the province Shandong, is a near-sibling of the first Chinese carrier, Liaoning, which itself follows much the same design as the Russian ship Kuznetsov.

A spokeswoman for the F-35's Joint Program Office says the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps have made no plans to send the fifth-generation fighter to this summer's major European air shows.

How technical advances are enabling space-based challengers to take on terrestrial internet services.

Arianespace has rescheduled its next Ariane 5 launch for May 4 local time at the company’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, following the strikes and social unrest that forced the European launch provider to suspend operations for a month.