Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

NASA’s scheduled return to the lunar surface by 2024 promises to expand the Earth’s economic sphere, according to a small but diverse panel of experts.

Assembly of the first production AW609 civil tiltrotor has begun at Leonardo Helicopters’ plant here, but certification could slip into 2020.

For the first time, Boeing provided details about the method it used to shock the market and impress the Air Force with its winning proposal for the T-X program.

PRATT & WHITNEY has $9m U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract for TF-33 aircraft engine first stage turbine blades.

Rising tension in the Persian Gulf region has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of Israeli intelligence-gathering aircraft over Lebanon and Syria.

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Brazilian jet maker Embraer, which is spinning off most of its commercial aircraft business to Boeing, missed Wall Street’s expectations for the first quarter of 2019.

Airbus Perlan Mission II has launched a four-flight campaign in Argentina in its bid to take a glider to an altitude of 90,000 ft.

European missile manufacturer MBDA soon will have a new face at the top with the appointment of Eric Beranger as CEO.

Boeing has completed initial wind-tunnel tests of a compound-helicopter version of the AH-64E Apache, showing potential for increased speed and range.

TransDigm Group may voluntarily pay back the U.S. government up to $16.1 million after the A&D supplier’s top two execs were pummeled by a House panel.

EU officials have rebuffed U.S. threats of potential sanctions over European rules restricting U.S. defense contractors access to joint European defense programs.

The specter of China foregoing Boeing airliners or other U.S. aerospace products is re-emerging now that the countries are set to raise tariffs on each other’s imports.

Russian industrial giant Rostec has taken another step to swallow United Aircraft Corp., appointing ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as the new chairman of UAC’s board.

The U.S. Air Force has selected six locations as candidate bases to host U.S. Space Command (Spacecom) headquarters.

INDRA won contract to supply C-130-transportable LTR25 L-band radar to UK Royal Air Force.

On Wednesday House appropriators will mark up their version of the fiscal 2020 defense spending bill in a closed session.

Harris Corp., Clifton, New Jersey, has been awarded $71,761,512 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering services.

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee’s draft fiscal 2020 defense spending bill puts a hold on the proposed Space Development Agency.

Over the next few weeks, the U.S. Army expects to find out whether the DOD will allow it to accelerate efforts to develop an advanced medium utility rotorcraft to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk.

Experts from the German Aerospace Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have not given up on fully deploying the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe.

Sweden is proposing strengthening its air force by retaining older model Gripen C/D fighters well into the 2030s.

Boeing has started early manufacturing activity on the F-15EX for the U.S. Air Force.

The Russian military plans to increase purchases of Tu-160M2 strategic bombers, the latest variant of the Cold War-era Tu-160 Blackjack.

The USAF is taking the biggest hit of all the services as the DOD shifts $1.5 billion as a second installment for building a wall along the U.S. southern border.