Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. moved to strike Syria in part because an al Qaeda offshoot group targeted as part of the operation was growing close to developing explosives that could evade detection at airports, according to top U.S. officials. “The briefings we had indicated there was a growing ability to put together an explosive device which could get through the security at airports,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters earlier this week.

The U.S. Navy’s DDG 1000 Zumwalt destroyer completed the light-off of its Main Turbine Generator set earlier this month, making it self-sufficient on its own power. The lead ship of the three-vessel DDG 1000 fleet is 92% complete and currently going through the test-and-activation phase at General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipyard. The ship successfully activated its fuel systems, advanced induction motors (AIM) and generators, with fuel onload and AIM light-off completed in July. IPS

To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. ( Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Sept. 29-Oct. 1 — 12th Annual Maritime Reconnaissance & Surveillance, Crowne Plaza Rome, St. Peter’s Rome, Italy. For more information go to www.maritimerecon.com/ Sept. 30-Oct. 2 — Offshore patrol Vessels, The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. For more information go to www.offshorepatrolvessels.com/

NASA’s MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER plans to award sole-source contract to AEROJET ROCKETDYNE for six additional RS-25 Core Stage Engines for SPACE

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to develop its Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle despite its loss to Boeing and SpaceX in the three-way NASA competition

U.S. Strategic Command has finally signed a data-sharing agreement with key allies that is designed to streamline a complicated process of gathering

OSLO — The scheduled deployment of the carrier-capable F-35C for its first sea trials will take place as planned, according to senior program

Logos Technologies is to flight test a cargo-delivery unmanned aircraft system at the FAA-designated UAS test site near Rome, New York. The powered

South Korea’s proposed KF-X indigenous fighter program is now closer to being launched than at any time since it was proposed in the late 1990s

The U.S. Air Force is likely to ask for extra budget money to rebuild nuclear deterrent forces between now and the 2030s, according to sources

The F-35 Joint Program Office in October will select one of the corrective actions offered by Pratt & Whitney to fix the root cause of an engine fire

OSLO — U.S. Navy officials say the first firing of a Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) from a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has shown “great potential

HOUSTON —Russia’s Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft sprinted toward a late Sept. 25 docking with the International Space Station, following a liftoff earlier

After years of bitter competitions, Embraer has finally established a U.S. foothold for production of defense systems stateside with the rollout of

OSLO — Norwegian ammunition firm Nammo is hoping to achieve an operational capability for a new 25mm round for use in all three variants of the F-35

The aircraft carrier CVN 77 USS George H.W. Bush has become something of an electronic warfare (EW) testbed lately and the ship’s success thus far

RAYTHEON may not sign expected Qatari PATRIOT order before end of current fiscal quarter, RBC CAPITAL MARKETS says, but analysts are confident deal

U.S., South Korea Finish Talks On Joint Strike Fighter Purchase South Korea and the U.S. government have completed negotiations on Korea’s order for

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NEW DELHI — India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit Sept. 24, making India the first nation in Asia to reach

Ships assigned to the aircraft carrier CVN 73 USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group completed a complex, live-fire, anti-submarine warfare (ASW)

Bell-Boeing and Rolls-Royce have flight tested a modification, already being installed in AE1107C engines powering the V-22 Osprey, that increases the

The U.S. Navy’s ramped-up destroyer shipbuilding program continued this month with the authentication of the keel of DDG 114 Ralph Johnson at the

Textron has completed its first live-fire flight test of the Fury small, precision-guided glide weapon from a Shadow 200 tactical unmanned aircraft

PARIS—Aireon LLC has named FAA veteran Vincent Capezzuto to the position of chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, the McClean