Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

BELL BOEING has $42.2m U.S. Navy contract for V-22 fleet software sustainment incl. engineering and technical support and on-aircraft avionics for the Marine Corps and Air Force.

Airbus has appointed Antoine Bouvier and Patrick de Castelbajac to new senior executive positions in the group.

MARTIN BAKER has $21.5m U.S. Navy contract for nonrecurring engineering associated with SKU-10A/A ejection seats for U.S. Navy, Australia.

Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Matthew P. Donovan will become acting secretary of the Air Force on June 1.

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The production award comes as the program grapples with a critical design flaw.

First flight puts the program back on track for a low-rate production decision in September.

The new COO and president of BAE Systems Inc., Tom Arseneault, is taking the reins as new acquisition trends and technology demands reshape the defense sector.

U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper is challenging the rotorcraft industrial base to provide a heavy vertical lift aircraft for the future to combat China and Russia.

First flight of the Airbus E-Fan X hybrid-electric hybrid-regional aircraft demonstrator has slipped into 2021, from 2020.

The Israeli Air Force is accelerating the process of selecting new vertical lift platforms.

The Russian Aerospace Forces will increase its order for Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighters by more than four times.

India’s second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, will carry 13 payloads and one passive experiment instrument from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organization says.

Airbus has appointed Antoine Bouvier and Patrick de Castelbajac to new senior executive positions in the group.

A Dynetics-led team has been selected over Raytheon to develop a 100-kW high-energy laser weapon system for demonstration by the U.S. Army in fiscal 2022.

BAE SYSTEMS extended agreement with MAGELLAN AEROSPACE for continued production of F-35 Lightning II horizontal tail assemblies.

The Pentagon is weighing options for how to replace its most highly protected military communications satellites, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system.

NASA on May 16 hired 11 companies for studies and prototypes of descent modules, orbit-transfer stages and refueling capabilities.

The FAA on May 16 announced changes to operating rules for recreational drones.

Swiss officials have placed a budget cap of $5.93B on the purchase of a new fleet of fighter aircraft to replace the F-5 Tiger and F/A-18 Hornet.

DARPA’s Alias autonomy system, under development by Sikorsky, is to be flight tested in a U.S. Air National Guard Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 30.

Japan is investigating why its Hayabusa 2 sample return mission autonomously aborted its descent to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu late May 15 U.S. time.

The first MH-139 helicopter for the U.S. Air Force has completed initial test flights at Leonardo Helicopter’s assembly plant in Philadelphia.

After spending two years assessing light attack procurement needs, USAF Sec. Heather Wilson is defending the DOD's approach to not make a buying decision this year.

An urban air traffic management (UATM) system is needed to bridge the gap between conventional air traffic control and future autonomous ATM, EmbraerX says.