Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Cubic, a military training and command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) services provider, has adopted a so-called poison pill to ward off a potentially hostile takeover attempt by activist hedge fund Elliott Management.

The FAA has announced its policy for approving drone designs as a special class of aircraft.

Dutch industry has benefited from an additional $19 million in contracts since Turkey’s suspension from the F-35 program, a national report has confirmed.

One of the few big storylines on the military aviation beat to emerge this year with no links at all to the COVID-19 pandemic is the U.S. Air Force’s

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $298 million contract to rapidly prototype the payload for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program that will ultimately replace the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system.

Much of the growing global enthusiasm for a post-Apollo return to the Moon with human explorers is focused on the lunar south pole.

Over more than three decades, the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Houston Airshow has allowed patrons to stroll among exhibits of vintage World War II aircraft as well as the military’s latest fighters.

OneWeb has renegotiated its contract with Arianespace and plans to resume launching its broadband satellite network in December, pending court approval of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

Development of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H3 has slipped at least three months following the discovery of faults during testing of the

Austria has selected the military version of Leonardo’s AW169 twin-engine intermediate light helicopter to replace its fleet of 1960s-era Aerospatiale Alouette III.

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

News in brief

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

The HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search-and-rescue helicopter has begun live-fire testing of its three primary weapons–the GAU-2, GAU-18 and GAU-21.

A standard timeline for awarding an MQ-9 contract after an acquisition decision was 380 days, or 12.5 months, but now the terms have been pre-negotiated.

Boeing has a successor supplier program to its infamous Partnering for Success (PFS), but it is not picking up much traction yet, according to one new industry survey.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems debuted its MQ-9 Block 5 Ghost Reaper concept at the U.S. Air Force’s largest trade show, rebranding the counterinsurgency platform to fit the service’s vision for the Advanced Battle Management System.

Diamond Aircraft has relaunched the Diamond DA20-C1 equipped with new G500TXi avionics.

Romania has accepted the first of seven planned Raytheon Patriot ground-based air defense systems.

The Irish Air Corps has taken delivery of its three Pilatus PC-12NG intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.

Former International Space Station commander and three-time shuttle astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria is heading back to orbit, this time as on-site personnel for Axiom Space’s first private mission to the ISS.

Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has secured the type certificate for its L-39NG jet trainer.

Lockheed has established new testing and manufacturing facilities to support a notional plan to transition a self-defense laser pod to a tactical aircraft by 2025.

The potential follow-on order is one of three options in consideration for the Navigation Technology Satellite program (NTS)-3.

Rolls-Royce is part of Boeing’s industry team to support the rotorcraft as it faces off against Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion to secure the lucrative Schwerer Transporthubschrauber (STH) contract.