Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The European medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft system passed its system preliminary design review on Nov. 22, Airbus Defense & Space says.

USAF Space Command has assumed responsibility for procuring commercial satellite communications services for the DOD from the Defense Information Systems Agency.

As the Pentagon looks to change how it buys satellite communication services, Intelsat General is offering a new managed service for military customers.

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) released a cyber security standard Dec. 13 to provide a solution to addressing new threats.

BOEING has $8m U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract for F-15 parts and engineering.

The U.S. Air Force’s first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned Dec. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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A U.S. startup developing a single-person hybrid-electric multicopter is looking at potential military applications as a logistic or soldier transport.

Boeing has decided not to join a group of six other newly identified companies bidding for a contract to supply the Canadian military with aircrew training services.

Russian military aircraft that were deployed to Venezuela on Dec. 10 will return to their home bases after a brief and controversial visit, the White House says.

The future House Armed Services Committee leader believes the Pentagon “is being a little bit disingenuous” when claiming a fiscal 2020 defense budget under $733 billion will increase risk for the U.S. armed forces.

British pseudo-satellite developer Prismatic has completed the first wing section of the Phasa-35 solar-powered high-altitude air vehicle.

Departures of chief financial officers in the aerospace and defense industry may be picking up, if two recent high-level announcements are any indication.

Sikorsky and Boeing have confirmed that the first flight of the SB-1 Defiant advanced rotorcraft demonstrator has slipped into early 2019.

The U.S. Navy is looking to the commercial aviation industry for best practices on getting aircraft through the government’s depot maintenance facilities.

A Soyuz launcher is to place into orbit France’s first new-generation Earth observation satellite for military purposes, CSO-1, on Dec. 18.

South Korea’s parliament has OK'd an 8.2% rise in the 2019 defense budget to 46.671 trillion won ($41.35 billion), despite improved relations with North Korea.

Alberto Gutierrez is to assume the helm as the head of military aircraft at Airbus Defense and Space, taking over from Fernando Alonso.

AUSTRALIA welcomed the first two F-35As to be permanently based in the country during ceremony at RAAF Base Williamtown.

This week sees China’s Chang’e 4 probe approaching the Moon to make humanity’s first attempt at a soft landing on the lunar far side in January.

NetCentrics Corp., Herndon, Virginia, was awarded an $8,156,810 time and material, labor-hours, and firm-fixed-price contract modification.

A successful test by an SM-3 IIA on Dec. 10 checks several boxes in the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s plans to deploy Aegis Ashore batteries in Europe and Japan.

The U.S. and Israel are hashing out last-minute differences over the sale of secondhand F-16 fighter aircraft to Croatia.

Spacewalking cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev labored outside the ISS's Russian segment Dec. 11 to survey the site of the small hole in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule’s habitation compartment that was detected in late August.

The Pentagon’s nascent Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is up and running.