Anchored by new developments in sonar imaging, undersea mapping and other technology, the U.S. Navy once again led the U.S. government pack for patents in a 2014 ranking.
GENERAL DYNAMICS has $49.7m U.S. Army contract to upgrade M1A1 tanks to M1A2 Systems Enhancement Package (SEP) V2 configuration, which adds color displays, day/night thermal sights, Thermal Management System (TMS), and tank-infantry phone. MBDA test fired the MMP missile Feb. 12 at the French Procurement Agency DGA Techniques Terrestres site in Bourges central France, against a steel target at intermediate range, in “fire and forget” mode using missile seeker’s color TV channel.
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) plan to field a new rocket engine with Blue Origin called the BE-4 is only step one of a larger strategic plan to take the company from a sole-source benefactor mentality to competing in a burgeoning commercial market.
NovaWurks has already booked a Sun-synchronous mission on a Spaceflight Inc. Sherpa rideshare platform for the third quarter of this year to demonstrate its Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) concept for the Phoenix program.
The automated docking unfolded at 11:57 a.m. EST, as the unpiloted Russian freighter and the six-person ISS orbited 257 mi. above the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Puerto Rico.
More than six years in the making, the FAA’s proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft cannot be finalized fast enough for those on either side of the argument over UAS in civil airspace.
Most of them are younger than 35 years of age, more than a third of the 100 candidates currently live in the U.S. and all but 21 hold at least a bachelor’s degree.
Revenues at engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce have fallen for the first time in a decade after a bumpy 2014, and the company is expecting more pain in 2015.
Primarily operating out of Misawa Air Base, Japan, the expeditionary EA-18G Growler squadron was able to relocate at a moment’s notice, participating in exercises and providing detachments around the Pacific.
PARIS – Europe's fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Feb. 14, marking the end of a seven-year era in European spaceflight.
In observance of the Presidents Day holiday in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Monday, Feb. 16. The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Feb. 18.
General Dynamics announced Feb. 13 that Larry R. Flynn, president of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., will succeed Joseph T. Lombardo as executive vice president of the company’s Aerospace group when Lombardo retires in June. Mark L. Burns, president of product support for Gulfstream, will succeed Flynn. Meanwhile, M. Amy Gilliland, vice president for human resources, will succeed Walter M. Oliver as General Dynamics’ senior vice president for human resources and administration when Oliver retires next month.
ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES and ALPHA DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES teamed to supply mini-UASs, including IAI’s Bird-Eye 400 and 650, in India; system production will take place in India, while marketing will be a joint effort between the companies. ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES delivered its first T-38 replacement wing to USAF; program calls for up to 200 shipsets. RAYTHEON IIS has $270m U.S. Navy contract to provide V-22 systems, testing and software out of Indianapolis.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), chairman of the environmental subcommittee, said the nation can ill afford lapses in weather-satellite coverage. "Instead of continuing down the path of large government-owned satellites that are prone to cost overruns and delays, we must look outside the box for new methods of providing essential weather data," he said.
India's defense ministry has been asking for extensions, a Boeing India executive says. "We did provide them as and when appropriate," he says. "It is not always possible to keep extending, because we live in a world where we feel inflationary pressure."
The 5.5-ton, twin-engine Dhruv, manufactured by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), has been clocking a worrisome safety record recently, with three accidents in less than a month.
The F-35 program has no firm plan to shift to Quickstep’s glycol-based production method. But Quickstep, with Lockheed Martin’s support, has run tests on hundreds of pieces made with the process.
Senior U.S. Air Force officials remain confident the service will achieve its plan to declare initial operational capability (IOC) for the F-35A by the end of December 2016, though doing so is presenting a major challenge in maintenance resourcing.
