Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Last month’s earthquake in California’s Napa Valley provided an opportunity for NASA to demonstrate one highly sophisticated but often overlooked

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CAE booked C$115m in new contracts to provide MQ-1 Predator/MQ-9 Reaper aircrew training to USAF, to update CP-140 simulator for the Royal Canadian

Among the concepts for replacing the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine to be presented to the U.S. Air Force this week will be a solid-fuel concept

Northrop Grumman has received a $19.3 million contract for Phase 2 of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)-led program to demonstrate a

The U.S. Air Force’s most expensive fighter, the twin-engine F-22, has finally attacked a target during a combat deployment. A pilot flying the

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland — The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft program could be cut – not due to draconian budget changes but because

Joint Strike Fighter program leaders will decide within days whether to defer the U.S. Navy F-35C variant’s first sea trials until 2015, the program

Five Middle Eastern air forces took part in the U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria on Sept. 23. The gathering of Arab

LONDON — AgustaWestland is taking the U.S. Army to court in a bid to block the purchase of more Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota Light Utility

HOUSTON — International Space Station astronauts Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman successfully grappled the latest SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule as

Amphibious transport dock LPD 23 USS Anchorage completed the third Underway Recovery Test (URT-3) for NASA’s Orion capsule earlier this month

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SCIAKY, INC. is providing turnkey electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) system to LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS to cut time and waste in

The U.S. government is investing in the construction of three biorefineries in a bid to kick-start large-scale production of drop-in biofuel

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Modern Day Marine exposition gets underway this week, running Tuesday through Thursday at Quantico, Virginia. The annual event

WASHINGTON and NEW DELHI—After a 10-month journey, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) spacecraft successfully entered orbit around

LONDON — The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of cruise missiles for use on Poland’s fleet of F-16s. The $500 million Foreign

HOUSTON — SpaceX’s fourth Dragon commercial resupply mission was on schedule for an early Sept. 23 rendezvous with the International Space Station

PARIS—A company establishing a global commercial aircraft-tracking service says it will offer a piece of that capability, free-of-charge, to all airlines equipped with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) terminals.

The U.S. Navy cruiser CG 62 USS Chancellorsville conducted a series of live-fire exercises to assess the ship’s newly installed Baseline 9A Aegis

Rockwell Collins’s late-2013 acquisition of ground-based data distribution and management provider Arinc appears to be paying off sooner than some

Boeing Defense plans to open a new Cyber Analytics Center in Singapore to offer security analysis to industry and public sector clients. The center

PLANETIQ is providing satellite payload hosting as subcontractor for Millennium Engineering and Integration Company under a USAF multi-award Hosted Payload Solutions contract worth up to $495m. PlanetiQ’s initial constellation of 12 low Earth orbit satellites will be fully deployed by 2017. ASRC FEDERAL INUTEQ has NASA contract worth up to $73m for IT and engineering support services for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, CA.

Program officials from the U.S. Army and other services have begun building a formal business case for developing and procuring an advanced, medium-lift rotorcraft rather than upgrading the Sikorsky H-60 series again. The work is intended to support an analysis of alternatives (AOA) beginning next year and leading to a materiel development decision in fiscal 2017 on launching the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Medium program.