Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Consumers are becoming more aware of urban air mobility, but also more concerned about its safety, a survey says.

President Trump is expected to sign two minibus appropriations bills that include a provision allowing NASA to buy more Russian Soyuz seats to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.

The Japanese defense ministry has published a new design for the country’s next fighter.

Space launch provider Virgin Orbit says it has delivered a flight-worthy LauncherOne rocket to its Mojave, California facility and is poised to

U.S. startup Skyryse has flown a Robinson R44 light helicopter converted to autonomous flight control.

Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier of 737 aerostructures to Boeing, announced Dec. 20 that it will stop producing new 737 aerostructures and halt deliveries to its OEM customer on Jan. 1, 2020.

South Korean automaker Hyundai will unveil its first eVTOL PAV concept at the CES 2020 consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

Local production of the Sikorsky UH-60J has suffered the largest cut in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year OK'd by Japan.

Boeing and NASA were working to preserve as many test objectives as possible for the unmanned orbital debut of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner after a timer issue scuttled the capsule’s engine firing needed to reach the ISS.

Industry Events Calendar

Private equity investor Main Street Capital Holdings on Dec. 18 said it has created a new company, Compass Precision, to acquire precision metal manufacturers, including in the aerospace and defense sector.

BOEING has $564.5m U.S. Army contract for remanufacture of Apache AH-64E aircraft.

General Electric is by far the world’s largest manufacturer of military engines, with 21,806 in service in 2019, 30.7% of the global market.

Days after Boeing announced a coming halt to production of its 737 MAX, the first forecasts to emerge from financial analysts covering aerospace and defense (A&D) still see good business prospects for the sector in 2020 but with several caveats, and with far cloudier horizons.

France has begun armed reconnaissance missions in Central Africa with its General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air systems.

Private equity investors Main Street Capital Holdings on Dec. 18 said it created a new company, Compass Precision, to acquire precision metal manufacturers.

Rolls-Royce has released the first images of an all-electric demonstration aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has named the MH-139A utility helicopter the Grey Wolf.

Days after Boeing announced a production halt of the 737 MAX, the three major U.S. credit rating agencies have turned slightly negative on the manufacturer with new outlooks that stress growing demands on the company’s credit access and softening cash prospects.

The Pentagon acquisition executive and her Indian counterpart have agreed to a U.S.-India Defense Technology Initiative.

A Soyuz-2 launcher operated by Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana, placed five satellites into orbit on Dec. 18.

Honeywell is partnering with iTRACE and SecureMarketing to fight counterfeit activity in the e-commerce market of aerospace products using blockchain tech.

Five months after being sidelined as NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier has left the agency.

Although market research has started to replace the USAF's E-4B NAOC fleet alone, the search continues for a single aircraft that could replace not only the NAOC but also U.S. Navy’s E-6B TACAMO fleet and the C-32A “Air Force Two” executive airlift fleet.

The second of five RQ-4Ds destined for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force has been delivered to Italy.