Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Administrator Jim Bridenstine says NASA's 2024 lunar landing is likely to include a female and male astronaut who touch down at the Moon’s south pole.

India’s official defense agency has successfully flight-tested Abhyas, a high-speed expendable aerial target (HEAT).

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.

Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales, is joining other investors in a new round of financing for Tempo Automation.

Seven weeks after calling for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024, President Donald Trump announced the price tag for expediting the program: an extra $1.6 billion for fiscal 2020.

After 30 years at Raytheon and Hughes in electro-optical imaging and Applied Signal Tech, Stefan Baur recently over the firm's Electronic Warfare Systems product line.

SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is set to descend close to the surface of Ryugu, the long-running mission’s sample return destination, this week.

The USAF has described a possible new approach to rescuing down pilots and wounded soldiers: Air-drop an autonomous aircraft to pick them up and fly them to safety.

The U.S. Air National Guard is to conduct trials with Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable active decoy as part of the U.S. Foreign Comparative Testing program.

Bristow Group has joined a growing list of offshore helicopters operators to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a bid to restructure its operation.

Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.

Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.

RAYTHEON has $15.3m U.S. Navy contract for design agent and engineering services efforts to support Cooperative Engagement Capability.

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Boeing executive Pat Shanahan as U.S. defense secretary.

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UNITED LAUNCH SERVICES has $149.4m U.S. Air Force contract for Delta IV heavy launch services.

Air forces operating the F-35 are beginning to exercise together with the fifth-generation fighter.

An Embraer KC-390 was spotted in Arizona on May 9 by online flight tracking services as it performed low-altitude extraction tests.

A contract signing by July would break a string of protracted negotiations between Lockheed and the Joint Program Office over each annual production lot.

Air forces operating the F-35 are beginning to exercise together with the fifth-generation fighter.

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Collins Aerospace has announced that Steve Timm has taken over as president of its avionics business unit, five months after the company merged with UTAS.

The U.S. Air Force announced plans on May 9 to reactivate the 65th Aggressor Squadron with Lockheed Martin F-35As.

Startup Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX) has launched a crowdfunding campaign toward building a full-scale demo for its Mobi-One tiltwing eVTOL air taxi.