Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Bill Carey
French air navigation service provider (ANSP) DSNA has joined a consortium of European ANSPs participating in the Iris satellite-based data link program, Inmarsat announced Aug. 14.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
British smallsat launch company Orbex has been chosen to launch a demonstrator satellite from the planned Sutherland, Scotland, site in 2022.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A 12-year-long, $1.1 billion project to replace structurally weakened wings on 173 A-10s ended last month, the U.S. Air Force announced on Aug. 12.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
The $380 million deal will include 12 launchers, two radars and 240 Tamir missiles.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Bahrain has signed agreements to purchase Raytheon’s Patriot ground-based air and missile defense system.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Royal Malaysian Air Force introduced two types of Russian general-purpose bombs into service with its Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker fighters following a recent live fire exercise.
Defense

RAYTHEON has $29.8m U.S. Navy contract for production of 82 F/A18CD-108B/ALE-50(V) Control, Dispenser, Decoy, Countermeasures Integrated Multi-platform Launch Controllers.

The Israeli Defense Ministry has issued a price and availability request to the U.S. Navy’s international programs office for the acquisition of the Boeing V-22 aircraft.

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
North Korea has flown a new type of short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), just days after tests of the KN-23 weapon, first revealed in February 2018.

The Aug. 9 story headlined “South Korean SRBM Capable Of Pull-Up Maneuver” should have said that the North Korean KN-23 missile first appeared in February 2018.

Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $7,756,450 firm-fixed-price contract for multiple radio equipment components.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Aus-tal USA LLC, of Mobile, Alabama, a $23,099,311 for cost-plus fixed-fee task order to accomplish advance planning, material procurement and accomplishment of work.

SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP. has $107.4m U.S. Navy contract for long lead items for six CH-53K aircraft.

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Global Positioning System has provided $1.4 trillion worth of nongovernment economic benefits since 1984 and an outage would cost $1 billion a day in losses, a new study commissioned by the U.S. Commerce Department has found.

By Michael Bruno
United Technologies (UTC) and Raytheon are working hard to convince shareholders to approve their mega-merger.
Defense

By Lee Hudson, Steve Trimble
The USAF has quietly awarded a contract to York Space Systems using its Space Enterprise Consortium for Tetra-3, a microsatellite that will be used to prototype missions and tactics, techniques and procedures.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The Commercial Drone Alliance is calling on the FAA and the White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft systems.

By Bill Carey
Drone delivery system developer Flytrex and jet charter and management company Causey Aviation said they have received FAA approval to begin food deliveries by drone in Holly Springs, North Carolina.

By Graham Warwick
Using experiments and digital simulations, Siemens’ eAircraft says it has proved the feasibility of a high power-density superconducting generator that could be used in a hybrid-electric propulsion system for future short-haul commercial aircraft.

By Mark Carreau
Confronted with unexpectedly rocky terrain, NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission will spend an additional four months assessing its target, the primitive 500-m-wide planetary object Bennu.
Defense

Piotr Butowski
A decade-long effort to upgrade Russia’s Mi-28N attack helicopter recently paid off, with a Russian government order for 98 Mi-28NMs, with deliveries through 2027.
Defense

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved a potential foreign military sale of 12 MH-60R multimission helicopters to the South Korean navy.

Active winglet provider Tamarack Aerospace Group announced Aug. 9 it received final U.S. Bankruptcy Court authorization to accept $1.95 million in new funding from a consortium of customers, vendors and company stakeholders.

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By Michael Bruno
A new corporate review may indicate that Textron could be looking to become an aerospace and defense-focused company similar to other large rivals, according to analysts.
Defense