Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A conference agreement by the House and Senate on Dec. 16 inserts at least three-quarters of a billion dollars in fiscal 2020 budget accounts linked to the U.S. military’s bulging hypersonic weapons portfolio.

U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees have agreed on a 2020 fiscal year budget package that includes $22.6 billion for NASA.

The U.S. House on Dec. 17 passed a spending bill that will provide $693.3 billion to the Pentagon in fiscal 2020.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off Dec. 16 to deliver a 15,000-lb., Boeing-built communications satellite into orbit.

The USAF is extending invitations to countries in the Indo-Pacific region that operate the F-35 to participate in Red Flag 2021.

The U.S. is ready for a “Christmas gift” from the North Koreans in the form of a long-range ballistic missile test, a USAF official says.

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft remains on track to make its first flight in 2021.

The amount of spending suggests a greater effort than put into previous concept designs earlier in this decade for the aircraft.

Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of Dec. 9 - 13, 2019

This week the U.S. Congress races to finish its business before the year-end recess

Daily Briefs

Worldwide Airbus C295 military fleets, excerpted from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery Database.

Boeing, citing “uncertainty” in when the 737 MAX will be cleared to return to service as a key factor, will suspend 737 production in January 2020.

The Czech Republic has ordered an additional pair of C295 turboprop airlifters from Airbus.

D-Orbit, an Italian startup aiming to provide orbital transportation and satellite decommissioning, claimed a new round of funding Dec. 16.

Parametric Solutions

Counter-drone systems continue to proliferate on the market, but tech and operational challenges in countering UAS have not yet been fully surmounted, a new study says.

The ESA has released details on the active debris removal mission it has commissioned for 2025 after having selected ClearSpace, a Swiss startup company.

Aerospace and defense holding company Novaria Group has acquired Long-Lok, a manufacturer of self-locking and self-sealing fasteners.

Airbus Ventures, the corporate venture capital investment wing of the European aerospace and defense giant, said it co-led a $17 million Series A round of investment in Munich-based Isar Aerospace.

Staging the solar electric foundation of NASA’s planned Gateway at the Moon will take some patience.

A Kazakhstan factory will begin assembling helos locally for the first time after signing an accord with Russian Helicopters.

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More new space launch providers could make the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, their home.

The USMC has put two prize challenges that lie at the heart of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft System Expeditionary program on hold.