Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Bill Carey
Air navigation service providers in the UK and Canada will soon start a joint trial of space-based surveillance of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A U.S./Russian two-man, one-woman crew launched March 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a fast-track to the International Space Station.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Embraer on March 14 confirmed it delivered 91 executive jets and 90 commercial jets last year, in line with what the Brazilian aircraft maker advised in January.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Defense Management System Modernization will be at least six to eight months late.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
A House Republican is answering Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s call to repeal legislation so that the DOD can establish a combatant command for space.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is reopening the question of whether astronauts could fly on the debut mission of the Space Launch System (SLS).
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence algorithms could be flying operational demonstrations within three years, a senior U.S. Air Force official says.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 helicopter is returning to Japanese army service after more than three years on the ground caused by engine unreliability.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The complete engine is designed to provide air-breathing thrust from the runway to Mach 5 and beyond for hypersonic aircraft and, in rocket mode, low-cost access to space.
Aerospace

LOCKHEED MARTIN delivered 7th F-35A to Royal Dutch Air Force for pilot training at Luke Air Force Base, AZ, on March 12.

Australian has asked to buy up to 108 Raytheon AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles.

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By Jen DiMascio
NASA is considering the use of commercial rockets for what was supposed to be the agency’s Space Launch System debut, Exploration Mission-1, Administrator Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The first task for the DOD's Space Development Agency is to design the architecture of a highly proliferated low Earth orbit sensor and communications transport layer to defend the U.S. from hypersonic missiles.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Archinaut, an effort by Made In Space, Inc., to advance 3D printing and robotic assembly capabilities, has achieved a new milestone.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The USAF secretary blasted Congress for not creating its own disaster supplemental funding plan to repair Tyndall AFB after it suffered heavy hurricane damage.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
A senior Republican senator is calling the U.S. Air Force’s approach to light attack procurement “schizophrenic” and says the service’s approach is “backwards.”
Defense

By Steve Trimble
An air inlet design issue on the Northrop Grumman B-21 is resolved and the secretive development program is “on the right course,” a U.S. lawmaker said.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Singapore will retire its 60 F-16s by 2030, a government presentation suggests, implying that acquisition of F-35 Lightnings will be completed in the 2020s.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
Two U.S. senators have established a bipartisan artificial intelligence caucus to complement the White’s House’s AI initiative.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force officials say the roughly $360 million reduction in this year’s budget reflects changes in the timing of planned investments.
Defense

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $89.5m U.S. Navy contract for MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system sustainment and engineering services.

It is rumored U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan to stay in the post permanently at the end of this week.

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