Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

“We’re taking a very aggressive position right now, in trying to get more and more companies into the standard airworthiness process,” the head of FAA's UAS Integration Office said July 1.

The flight readiness engine, produced at Blue Origin’s Kent, Washington, is the first of two BE-4s ULA will attach to a Vulcan rocket for configuration checks and testing.

These corridors are a key feature of the agency’s first concept of operations, ConOps 1.0, for urban air mobility.

Submitted by Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), the amendment would withhold funding until SOCOM completes certain deliverables.

HOUSTON—Spacewalking NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken made significant progress July 1 in their month-long effort to upgrade bulky

Belfast-based unmanned aircraft services provider Crowded Space Drones has named the lead drone executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority as its new director of operations.

Airbus has secured long-awaited certification for its H160 twin-engine medium helicopter from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.

MBDA will adapt its MMP man-portable missile system for a European Union (EU) cooperative program to develop a beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) attack

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has submitted an A-10 synthetic aperture radar improvements amendment to the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill.

An expected order for Lockheed Martin AGM-158C anti-ship missiles has been approved, according to a strategy policy issued July 1.

Boeing defense chief talks about increased introspection, the impact of COVID-19 on the market and plans for the KC-46.

Another problem has arisen while preparing the Mars 2020 rover for launch, triggering an additional eight-day delay to July 30, NASA said June 30.

Program Dossier: Embraer C-390 Millennium

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“Our target is very squarely a U.S. city. We call it our North Star,” Wisk CEO Gary Gysin said. "We’re not announcing what that city will be, but we know where we are going to fly.

The first Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) destined for the Multinational Multirole Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) has arrived at its home base in the Netherlands.

The House Armed Services Committee proposes investing $150 million in space technology development in the chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill.

With its interest in reusable rockets growing, Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center agreed to adjust the launch profile so SpaceX could attempt to recover the Falcon 9 first stage on a drone ship.

Some—but perhaps not all—of the U.S. military’s hypersonic weapon prototypes will be ready to enter large-scale production by the second half of the

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) would not support the Pentagon submitting a supplemental funding request to reimburse defense contractors for costs related to the coronavirus.

In an effort to adapt to declining demand for its commercial aircraft amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbus is expediting decisions to cut 15,000 positions—around 11% of its entire workforce and the deepest restructuring the company has ever endeavored.

The Pentagon has finalized the U.S. Space Force’s organizational structure for echelons below the headquarters level, and has announced sweeping changes for the space acquisition structure.

DARPA plans to launch a program to fly an X-plane designed around active flow control.

The U.S. Army expected to take delivery on June 30 of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS)-V from Sierra Nevada’s upgrade facility in Hagerstown, Maryland.