Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

House appropriators are frustrated by a lack of information coming from the Defense Department on the Space Force.

Aerojet Rocketdyne continues to show a “solid” business performance, financial analysts said about the company’s latest quarterly report, but its financials have yet to take off.

A device called Sidekick will allow a U.S. Air Force or Navy version of the F-35 to carry six AIM-120 missiles internally instead of four.

Harris Corp.’s and L3 Technologies’ latest quarterly earnings are building expectations for their upcoming merger.

Britain has appointed its first female defense secretary, Penny Mordaunt, following the firing of Gavin Williamson.

Icelandic authorities have begun using an Israeli-made Hermes 900 unmanned aircraft system to patrol the island’s exclusive economic zone.

Leading aerostructures provider Spirit AeroSystems has suspended its financial guidance for 2019 and shelved stock buybacks, executives announced May 1.

The U.S. Navy secretary says the service will refuel the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), which was slated for an early retirement because of budget constraints.

With less than 18 months of the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP) left to run, officials involved are hopeful the effort will result in a framework of repeatable processes for approving complex drone operations in national airspace.

As NASA looks to step up its detection of potentially dangerous Near Earth Objects, it is working on a dedicated deep-space observatory first proposed more than a dozen years ago.

Northrop Grumman is to debut the Firebird optionally piloted intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft at the Royal International Air Tattoo in the UK in July.

“The dilemma now is what to purchase first, as the budget will not be enough for the parallel acquisition of the two types,” a senior Israeli source told Aerospace DAILY.

BOEING has $127.6m U.S. Air Force contract for B61-12 Life Extension Program.

This week Congress continues with hearings on the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request.

Iridium Satellite, LLC, Tempe, Arizona, was awarded a non-competitive firm fixed price contract modification on April 22, 2019, HC104714C4000, for the extension of services on the current Airtime contract.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan warned in a speech April 30 that the F-35 program would “collapse” if the U.S. government follows through on threats to eject Turkey from the multi-national program.

Turkish Aerospace is preparing to fly the first prototype of its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter in the next 5-6 weeks.

The Turkish Air Force has begun captive-carry trials of the indigenously developed Goktug family of air-to-air missiles.

The relatively new leadership at key aerospace and defense supplier Arconic fleshed out what their future, separate business structures will be April 30.

Citing traffic congestion in the capital, Manila, a startup has launched a helicopter ridesharing service in the Philippines.

Associations representing airports and the unmanned aircraft systems industry have formed a task force to address drone incursions at airports.

Saudi Arabia has severed a five-year-old partnership with Antonov to develop and produce an improved version of the An-32 transport aircraft, the head of the Ukrainian manufacturer said in an April 26 report. &

The company has placed notices in Italian financial newspapers as part of a bid to evaluate market interest.

GE Aviation and Auterion of Zurich, Switzerland, have partnered to provide a hardware- and software-based platform for commercial drone operations, the companies announced April 29.

Australia has sent four Airbus Tiger ARH attack helicopters to Southeast Asia for the type’s first international deployment.