Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 27-31 — EuroNaval 2014, 24th International Naval Defense & Maritime Exhibition & Conference, Paris Le Bourget, France. For more information go to www.euronaval.fr/wp_exposants/enag/ Oct. 28-30 — Future Mortar Systems, Kensington Close Hotel, London, United Kingdom. For more information go to www.future-mortars.co.uk/

LONDON—Ascent Flight Training, the consortium that runs the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Military Flight Training System (MFTS), has selected the Affinity Group as the preferred bidder for the MFTS program’s aircraft service provider program. Affinity, itself a consortium of Elbit Systems and KBR, will provide new aircraft fleets for elementary flying training, multi-engine training and basic flying training. Affinity plans to provide basic flying training, currently carried out on the Shorts Tucano or the Beechcraft T-6C Texan II.

The U.S. Air Force continues to rely on the legacy rubidium clocks included in the GPS IIF satellites manufactured by Boeing—rather than newer cesium

The recently commissioned amphibious assault ship LHA 6 USS America and its sister ship Tripoli now under construction provide an aviation-centric

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – As U.S. Navy officials continue to sound warnings about the future funding needed for Ohio-class replacement submarines, the

NEW DELHI—The Indian navy will start taking delivery of the first batch of Israeli-made Barak-I missiles from 2015 to arm its frontline battleships

The European intergovernmental security organization charged with monitoring the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has begun operations with Scheibel

Name: Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Surface-to-Surface Missile

ELBIT SYSTEMS, Israel, has 3-year contract from an unidentified Asian customer to perform avionics upgrade for its F-5s. RAYTHEON UK and THALES UK

Cobham’s new 12-year, roughly $563 million contract to provide airborne search-and-rescue capability for Australia should add about 1% to the British-based company’s top line, RBC Capital Markets analysts said Oct. 24 after the deal was unveiled.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $207.3 million contract modification for procurement of four Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ator) low-rate initial production systems.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s most recent trial for the Aegis ballistic missile defense system is another stop toward proving that airborne

UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING (Bland Group) has acquired U.K.-based PHOENIX CNC ENGINEERING (component machining). DRONE AVIATION, FL has USAF contract to

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SAO PAOLO, Brazil — The Brazilian and Argentine governments have signed bilateral agreements that could lead to Argentina buying Brazilian-made Gripen

Republican leaders of the House Science Committee are warning NASA that its “lack of cooperation” in answering lawmakers’ questions “could lead to the

The crew of the now-deployed amphibious assault ship LHA 5 USS Peleliu is preparing for the Board of Inspection and Survey (Insurv), scheduled later

Industry and analysts have sensed it since the summer, and now a new report confirms the suspicion: merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in U.S

HOUSTON — NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. have set a late Oct. 27 liftoff of the Dulles, Virginia-based company’s third resupply mission to the six

Aurora Flight Sciences is to demonstrate a civil precision-delivery unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on its ducted-fan, vertical-takeoff-and

A spacecraft designed to test re-entry techniques for a future lunar-sample return mission lifted off from the Xichang launch facility on a Long March 3C on Oct. 23 (Oct. 24 local time) on a week-long mission that will take it around the Moon. Citing a spokesman for the China National Space Administration, China Daily’s English-language edition said the testbed will return to Earth after a swing around the Moon to test a “skip” re-entry technique pioneered by the Soviet Union to bleed off velocity before a parachute touchdown in the Gobi Desert.

The man who launched and led Google’s Project Wing for its first two years thinks package delivery by unmanned aircraft “absolutely is going to happen

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TEAL GROUP forecasts Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman will dominate the defense electronics market through 2023, together earning >40%

A federal claims court judge has rejected Sierra Nevada’s effort to shut down NASA’s commercial crew vehicle development effort until the U.S