Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Swiss helicopter developer Kopter Group has picked up the pace for testing for its SH09 single-engine light helicopter.

The Network for the Sky (NFTS) system will provide a high-speed network for combat and support aircraft, UAVs and helicopters, Airbus says.

Singapore has demonstrated its capacity for independent weapons development by introducing into service what it calls an advanced armored vehicle.

Lockheed Martin has delivered the GPS III Contingency Operations software upgrade to the U.S. Air Force’s current GPS ground control system, allowing the service to begin commanding newly launched GPS III satellites.

RAFAEL tested new Automatic Target Recognition capability for SPICE-250 guided bomb system June 10.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending the U.S. Missile Defense Agency use the delay in delivering Phase 3 of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) to conduct more thorough testing of the system.

U.S. House members are deepening their opposition to the Trump administration’s use of emergency authority for the export of $8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Unmanned aircraft system specialist AeroVironment said June 11 it acquired Pulse Aerospace, a developer and supplier of small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS, for $25.7 million in cash.

Another element of a U.S. Air Force plan to save money during the KC-46 sustainment phase has proven unrealistic, the GAO says in a new report published on June 12.

The GAO released a 30-page decision on June 12 that forcefully rejects the Advanced Turbine Engine Company’s (ATEC) arguments for overturning the U.S. Army’s decision to award a $530 million contract to GE Aviation to develop a new helicopter engine.

International partners joining Britain’s Tempest next-generation combat aircraft technology initiatives will need to “collaborate on the strength of what they bring to the program,” the UK’s national armament director has suggested.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been given a largely positive report card following a series of noise trials in support of its basing in Denmark.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off June 12 with a trio of radar-bearing Earth observation satellites for the Canadian Space Agency.

A deployable UAV equipped with a sensor capable of detecting submarines beneath the surface could be added to the Boeing P-8A under a new prototyping program.

Malaysia will buy two maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) and three long-range armed drones starting in 2021, its defense ministry says.

Poland is looking to speed up its purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter following Warsaw’s decision to acquire up to 32 of the combat aircraft.

Boeing’s full-scale Passenger Air Vehicle eVTOL prototype has crashed during unmanned flight testing at subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, Virginia.

British aerospace suppliers have found themselves frozen out of industry tenders, as the uncertainty about Britain’s departure from the EU continues.

British defense engineering company Marshall Aerospace and Defense has begun using additive manufacturing to rapidly prototype and produce components for military aircraft.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $958m U.S. Navy contract for 30 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) units.

This week in Washington House defense authorizers are due to vote on the annual defense policy bill.

Copper River Technologies, Anchorage, Alaska, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum amount of $21,000,000.

Uber has added a fifth electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle developer to its Elevate aerial ridesharing program.

Lessons learned from research and development of an unmanned aircraft traffic management (UTM) system to coordinate small drone traffic will serve toward creating a similar system for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, presenters told the Uber Elevate Summit in Washington.

House lawmakers pressed without success during a June 11 hearing for answers from NASA as to how much the White House’s plans to accelerate a human lunar landing from 2028 to 2024 will cost.