Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Navy has awarded JLL-Midnight Sun IFMS, LLC, Kotzebue, Alaska, a $30,408,548 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Maxar Technologies will decide over the next two months what to do with its geostationary communications satellite manufacturing business.

Aerojet Rocketdyne continued its quiet but steady financial improvement in the third quarter of 2018.

Five potential suppliers have about eight weeks to respond to a draft copy of an RFP for Canada’s $15-19 billion Future Fighter Capability contract.

The last U.S. Marine Corps squadron operating the Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler will return from its final deployment in early November, the service says.

UTC Aerospace Systems has developed the world’s highest resolution indium gallium arsenide near infrared/shortwave infrared camera for the U.S. Navy.

After signing accords to jointly develop a future fighter, French and German officials have reportedly had a falling-out over potential aircraft exports.

British smallsat launcher firm Skyrora is planning to use additive manufactured engines for its Skyrora XL smallsat launcher.

India’s state-run space agency has successfully conducted a test of Vikram, the lander for the country’s second lunar mission planned for early next year.

Senior British officials say there is “great interest” from potential international partners in the UK’s vision to develop a sixth-generation fighter.

The SkyPerfect JSAT Corp. has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a contract to deliver Ka-band gateways for JCSAT’s 18-satellite constellation.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries San Diego Shipyard Inc., San Diego, a $44,779,160 firm-fixed-price contract.

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Oct. 26 that a new strategy to shift the task of screening raw intelligence data from humans to machines will face internal opposition.

Contitech USA Inc., Fairlawn, Ohio, has been awarded a maximum $20,151,800 firm-fixed-price contract for M109 vehicle tracks.

Embattled General Electric's aerospace engine-making division remains a bright spot.

NASA’s pioneering Kepler space telescope is out of fuel, bringing its 9 1/2-year mission to an end.

The assets of once-high-flying drone startup company Airware are being bought by another drone-based services upstart called Delair.

Aerospace, defense and automotive supplier Arconic has delayed but expanded the scope of a long-awaited strategic review of options for the embattled company.

The Israeli Air Force has presented its operational needs for new aircraft to the general staff of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Europe’s RemoveDebris satellite has tested its onboard vision-based navigation (VBN).

A Chinese Long March 2C launcher placed CFOSat, a Sino-French satellite dedicated to oceanography and climate change understanding, into orbit on Oct. 29.

SESAR, Europe’s public-private partnership for airspace technology research, has launched a series of demonstrations.

Two companies have won contracts to test the feasibility of delivering vaccines by drone to remote islands in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

NASA’s near-Earth asteroid-bound Osiris-Rex spacecraft braked for a third time this month on Oct. 29, slowing an approach to its sample return target, Bennu.

Small-sat launch service provider Rocket Lab has added a last-minute customer to the manifest for its upcoming commercial Electron mission in November.