Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Jay Menon
India has rolled out the first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132 trainer aircraft, Hawk-i, which will help provide improved situational awareness and training capability.
Defense

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved potential $418m Foreign Military Sale of Air Tractor aircraft with weapons and related support to Kenya.

Family, friends, co-workers and admirers by the dozens gathered at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on Jan. 24 to pay tribute to NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan.

As the U.S. Air Forces presses ahead with development of a next-generation nuclear missile, a new report says the service must retain the capability of adding multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, if the strategic balance shifts.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
A new $312 million pretax charge against earnings for the U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program is not a material concern, prime contractor Boeing’s leaders said Jan. 25.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
With Britain set to receive its first of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidons in 2019, it will be the first time the two countries have operated the same maritime patrol aircraft since the 1950s.
Defense

Raytheon and its partner, Italian defense company Leonardo, are exiting the increasingly crowded competition to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer, citing challenges reaching a “business agreement.
Defense

Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services has launched an internal research and development effort to create a cyberintrusion detection system to be included in the cockpits of military and civil aircraft.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India has decided to buy approximately 57 fighters to operate from its aircraft carriers.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) formally inducted the first Boeing F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagles into its inventory during a ceremony in Riyadh on Jan. 25.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry has disposed of its inventory of its Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missiles, which had been used to suppress and destroy enemy air defenses.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Indonesian approval of funding for transport aircraft is a step toward a planned purchase of A400M Atlases, but will not result in an immediate order.
Defense

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will nominate former Rep. Heather Wilson (R) of New Mexico to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.

On Tuesday morning the Senate Armed Services Committee will discuss the U.S. defense budget from fiscal 2018 onward.

Northrop Grumman, San Diego, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $140,000,000 modification (P00120) to previously awarded contract FA8726-09-C-0010

An international array of teams remain in the running for top money in the race to the Moon’s surface in the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize competition.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Marillyn Hewson said Jan. 24 that she has used her meetings with new U.S. President Donald Trump to explain what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter prime contractor already is doing to help lower costs on the Pentagon’s largest-ever acquisition effort.
Defense

The Trump administration’s first long-range defense spending plan is a “critical opportunity” to signal U.S. strength, members of three leading Washington think tanks say.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus Safran Launchers CEO Alain Charmeau has fleshed out a call to coordinate and guarantee an annual number of satellite launches using the Ariane 6 and Vega C.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Analysts are seeking to temper any expectations of increased defense spending fueled by Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) white paper that would add billions. “It’s not Christmas in July,” one panelist said.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
As Leidos' defense group president departs, the company may further reorganize in the wake of a major acquisition last year.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India has signed an agreement with Japan to enhance cooperation in space exploration.
Defense

Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) plant in Huntsville, Alabama, has secured its fourth full-rate production contract after an eventful 2016.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
John Grunsfeld—NASA’s former associate administrator for science, Hubble Space Telescope astronaut repair specialist and astrophysicist—has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the National Space Trophy.
Defense

VECTOR AEROSPACE has contract from undisclosed European government for overhaul of ROLLS-ROYCE T56 turboprop engines, which power C-130/L-100, P-3, E-2. AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE has readied European Space Agency’s Aeolus wind-sending satellite for shipment from Stevenage, UK, to Toulouse, France, for final testing. Launch aboard Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, planned by year’s end.