Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Sean Broderick
Boeing, already struggling with sagging sales and rising costs related to the Boeing 737 MAX grounding, is taking steps to conserve cash, including a hiring freeze and limiting corporate travel.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Ongoing problems with NASA’s Space Launch System may delay efforts to return to the Moon with human explorers by late 2024, according to the NASA inspector general.
Space

By Bill Carey
Defense electronics specialist Hensoldt and air traffic management system (ATM) supplier Frequentis have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to increase their collaboration on developing integrated counter-drone systems for airports.
World ATM Congress

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK estimates that at the start of 2020, there were 871 Western-designed aircraft performing air-refueling missions. A total of 442
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Alain Bellemare is stepping down as president and CEO of Bombardier, having overseen a radical reshaping of the Canadian company in a bid to restore

North America The U.S. military is requesting an additional 17 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and U.S. Transportation Command is pushing
Defense

News in brief
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
French startup VoltAero has begun flight testing its electric regional-aircraft testbed equipped with motors supplied by Safran Electric & Power.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s Longview Aviation Services has flown the first Canadair CL-215 amphibious aircraft upgraded to CL-415EAF Enhanced Aerial Firefighter configuration.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The British government plans to create a DARPA-like agency to fund “high-risk, high-reward” science capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A series of requests for information to industry since last fall has generated proposals to accelerate the current, 10-year schedule.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
China’s EHang is to begin non-passenger test flights of its EHang 216 autonomous air taxi with a customer in Norway after receiving an operational permit from that country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAA).
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Exercise Cold Response 2020, planned for March 2-18, was to involve some 14,000 troops from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, UK and U.S
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The first change to the aircraft removes the skin and structural material in lower lobes of the forward and aft fuselage, the Air Force said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Italian aerospace and defense company Leonardo says operations are continuing normally despite the national lockdown.
Supply Chain

By Lee Hudson
The Blue-Ribbon Future Carrier 2030 Task Force is seen as complementary to a broad review of shipbuilding requirements being led by Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The project, initiated by Safran, involves regional companies working in agricultural chemicals and energy that plan to work together to produce and distribute sustainable biofuels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Japanese suborbital spaceflight startup PD AeroSpace plans to fly the latest in a series of the subscale company’s first suborbital test vehicles.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The strategy aims to correct a longstanding problem for the Pentagon—that its communication networks use thousands of disparate terminals that are not compatible with each other.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Aireon and Searidge Technologies have announced a partnership to integrate satellite-routed position data from aircraft into Searidge’s “digital tower” platform for large airports.
World ATM Congress

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps now is pursuing an unmanned family of systems for its Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft Expeditionary (MUX) effort.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Marine Corps is joining the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to accelerate commercial development eVTOL vehicles, with a view to using them for logistics.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The F-15 fleet is expected to enter qualifications by the end of 2021, to be followed by the F-16, F-22, A-10 and B-1.
Aircraft & Propulsion