Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

ANOTHER FIRST: Michelle Janine Howard this week became the first woman to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy’s 238-year history

Raytheon has opted against protesting Lockheed Martin’s win of the Space Fence program, following a series of extended debriefings on its loss that

LONDON — The Netherlands is halting deliveries of its NH90 naval helicopters over concerns about corrosion on the aircraft. Officials found issues

The U.S. Navy awarded about $5.6 billion in aviation contracts at the end of June. Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems received a $3.6 billion

RIDLEY PARK, Pennsylvania — Canada has taken delivery of the last of 15 new Boeing CH-147F Chinooks, and the heavy-lift helicopters could be ready to

NEW DELHI — France’s foreign minister thinks the long wait for India’s purchase of 126 Dassault Rafale fighters may finally be nearing its end. “The

The Polish defense ministry has shortlisted Raytheon Co. and a European team comprising Thales Group and MBDA in its ongoing tender to acquire a new

Saab and ThyssenKrupp have agreed on the Swedish company’s purchase of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB, the former Kockums ship and submarine builder

The debut of Russia’s new light-class Angara rocket has been delayed for several weeks as engineers investigate a defect in the drainage valve of a

The debut of Russia’s new light-class Angara rocket has been delayed for several weeks as engineers investigate a defect in the drainage valve of a liquid oxygen tank discovered during pre-launch checks. “An emergency shutdown occurred 79 seconds before the start of the launch,” Russian engine maker NPO Energomash said in a statement posted on its website. “The reason was a pressure drop of the oxidizer tank spherical balloon,” which the company said is not part of the Angara’s first stage RD-191.

The naval forces of the U.S., its partners and allies will get a glimpse of what the most powerful Asian navy brings to the fight as China makes its

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LONDON — A joint Latin American project to develop a basic training aircraft is close to finalizing its first contracts. The program, developed

EVERETT, Washington — The first test aircraft in Boeing’s KC-46A tanker program, which was scheduled to fly in June, is still being prepared for a

SATELLITE PROPOSAL: India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, took the occasion of India’s latest international satellite launch on June 30 to

NEW DELHI — India’s space agency has successfully put into orbit five international satellites to observe the Earth, reinforcing the country’s

Rapid progress in commercial robotics is leading the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to raise the bar for the finals of its disaster

Guided-missile destroyer DDG 53 USS John Paul Jones successfully conducted a series of five live-fire tests for the Baseline 9C Aegis combat system

The Iraqi defense ministry has taken delivery of a batch of five Sukhoi Su-25 ground-attack aircraft from Russia. The first group of five aircraft

HOUSTON — Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit with ambitious plans to start a human colony on the red planet in the mid-2020s, has issued a request for

HOUSTON, Texas — NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will press ahead with plans for dual 2015 flight tests of new Low-Density Supersonic

LONDON — U.K. Military Aviation Authority (MAA) crash investigators have called for the installation of a collision warning system on the U.K.’s

LOS ANGELES, California — XCOR Aerospace, the developer of the reusable Lynx suborbital spaceplane, has acquired Dutch investment, mission sales and

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Selected aerospace and defense contracts for June 23, 2014 ARMY NIITEK, Dulles, Virginia, was awarded a $26,122,231 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with