Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Airbus has signed an MOU with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Delays to import-substitution efforts have forced the Russian government to revise its plans for deliveries of locally made commercial aircraft.

BAE Systems sees a pathway to keeping the Global Combat Air Program on its development timeline despite elections in the UK that could slow decision making.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

News in brief.

EHANG's revenues jump... L3HARRIS countermeasures award... DRONE SENSOR market reaches $1.4b...

EHang continued to grow its orders and sales numbers in the first quarter.

LINKOPING, Sweden—The first flight of Saab’s twin-seat Gripen F has been pushed into 2025, following a change in the priorities of the Brazilian Air Force customer.

Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Venture capital firm Seraphim Space has announced its latest accelerator cohort of nine startups.

The U.S. Army is eyeing increased production of the Hellfire and Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, with a solicitation targeting a new manufacturing site for the missiles.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Starfish Space a contract to launch and operate a new space tug as part of its broader push for in-orbit servicing.

Another Chinese startup has emerged with ambitions to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Archer Aviation has announced a new partnership with Etihad Aviation Training to recruit and train pilots to operate its Midnight air taxis in Abu Dhabi.

The Iranian government has confirmed the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

The Singapore Defense Ministry says an F-16's "pitch rate gyroscopes gave erroneous inputs to the flight control computer," causing it to crash in early May.

Seoul's investment in domestically developed systems and technologies is set to expand South Korea’s rapidly growing footprint in global defense export markets.

Though the New Shepard capsule returned to the company’s West Texas spaceport with one of its three main parachutes not fully inflating.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

The prototypes will seek new devices for Inertial sensing and magnetic sensing, plus advances in photonic systems and laser components used by quantum devices.

NASA has named David Salvagnini as the agency’s first chief artificial intelligence officer.

Eric Fanning, head of the Aerospace Industries Association, laid out a list of new legislative priorities.

The aerospace and defense sector has long faced formidable labor challenges, from an aging workforce to a growing shortage of crucial engineering talent.

NASA for the 12th year in a row has been rated as the best large federal agency for which to work in 2023, according to employee survey analysis.

Italy could join Germany and Spain in making a top-up order for the Eurofighter combat aircraft, industry officials have said.