Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The company, which has 33 satellites in space, aims to deploy 107 more through this year and next.

The French government has named Emmanuel Chiva chairman and CEO of aerospace research and technology center Onera.

Kuwait, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates have asked to buy more than $16 billion worth of U.S. defense equipment.

News in brief.

GD gets $15b Columbia sub award... CSIS appoints former USMC commandant as next CEO... MDA raises ceiling for RAYTHEON’s SM-3 contract...

Aviation Week has identified $23.1 billion in open opportunities to supply CCAs between 2026 and 2035 that have officially been announced by operators.

Northrop Grumman completed a new right of passage for aspiring Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) producers.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded a follow-on contract to Kratos to provide ground management and integration services for its forthcoming MEO missile warning and tracking satellite program.

The Defense Department has tapped Rocket Lab to launch its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket 20 times in four years.

An unidentified flying-wing uncrewed aircraft system was photographed and videoed at low altitude near Larissa Air Base, Greece, on March 18.

Intuitive Machines CEO says the company’s deal to supply satellites for L3Harris’s work on the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer.

Two space startups want to make on-orbit debris removal as seamless as street sweeping.

China is intensifying efforts to build reusable rockets it sees as integral to achieving its space power ambitions.

France and Germany are poised to make a decision on whether they can repair the fractured defense industrial relationship for the Future Combat Air System.

A U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35 was forced to make an emergency landing at a Middle East base following a combat mission over Iran on March 19.

The intensive use of batteries in a hybrid-electric propulsion system may generate a replacement and obsolescence challenge, a Collins Aerospace official says.

London wants to buy more Thales air defense missiles to aid Gulf allies drawn into the Iran war and convened talks with industry to see what more could be done.

The People’s Liberation Army Air Force introduced an AI-powered aerial refueling dispatcher system aimed at improving tanker operation efficiency and pace.

Satellite bus builder Apex has signed a contract with Tokyo-based technology company NEC Corp. to support an on-orbit laser link demo launching in 2027.

A U.S. Space Force program to boost the capacity of military satellite communications in Arctic regions has been operationally accepted.

News in brief.

BOEING gets Korean P-8A software update order... HOUSE reauthorizes SBIR/STTR... New chief strategy officer for CAE...

France’s future aircraft carrier has been named “France Libre,” or “Free France” by President Emmanuel Macron.

NASA conducted a spacewalk March 18 to prepare for the installation of a final pair of solar-power-augmenting Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs).

India’s Defense Ministry is seeking to join one of the foreign government-industry consortia developing competing sixth-generation fighters.