Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Work on an engine for the TF-X fighter have been “substantially ramped down” Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East says.

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

The new vehicle, Dragon 2, is designed, built, owned and operated by SpaceX, with financial backing, technical expertise and oversight provided by NASA.

Uncrewed Dragon 2 mission a key step toward the resumption of human orbital flight from the U.S.

POLAND announced plans to purchase “5th generation” fighter as soon as possible, following release of new military modernization plan covering through 2026 containing a bump in spending from $37b to $49b.

Honeywell plans to display a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for the urban air mobility market at the Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo show in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 5-7.

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Singapore will buy four Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) for initial testing, with an option for eight more, its defense minister says.

GE Aviation has released the design of a next-generation military jet engine to suppliers.

“As of this morning we are still not accepting KC-46s, and I believe that will continue for some time,” Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told journalists March 1

The U.S. Navy is working hard to develop a pilot syllabus and conduct unit-level events to fold fifth-generation fighter capability into the carrier air wing.

U.S. antitrust officials have cleared French defense giant Thales to complete its roughly $5.5 billion acquisition of digital security company Gemalto.

The Pentagon has sent a legislative proposal to Capitol Hill that anticipates establishing a Space Force headquarters in fiscal 2020 comprising 200 people for about $72 million.

Leonardo Helicopters has developed a new training concept for pilots and engineers preparing for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

Berlin’s STH program is set to choose between Boeing’s CH-47 Chinook and the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion to replace its aging fleet of 70 licence-produced Sikorsky CH-53G Stallions.

Space stalwart Maxar Technologies has decided to cut 4% of its staff, drop marquee brands in a restructuring, and keep its geostationary satellite manufacturing business.

The International Court of Justice has called upon the UK to cede its control of the British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT), the site of the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia.

GENERAL ELECTRIC AVIATION has $366.2m U.S. Navy contract for T-64 engine repair.

Though SpaceX’s upcoming Demo-1 mission will be an uncrewed test flight, the opportunity to move small amounts of cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS) will not be wasted.

The U.S. Air Force has paused deliveries of KC-46 tankers from Boeing after discovering foreign object debris on aircraft that were set for delivery.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK estimates that by the end of 2018, there were 4,821 Western-designed aircraft performing military transport missions.

Strike Fighter Squadron 147, the “Argonauts,” will be the Navy’s first unit to deploy with the F-35C.

Sikorsky is prepping for the first flights of two fully assembled HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters (CRH) in mid-2019.

Nanosatellite hopeful Sky and Space Global may yet make good on its payment obligations to manufacturer GomSpace, but it did not come in time for GomSpace’s latest quarterly report.

The Northrop Grumman B-21 bomber is making progress in development despite previously disclosed problems, a senior U.S. Air Force official said Feb. 28.