Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Oct, 28

GE Aviation announced a teaming agreement Oct. 28 to provide its flight-control computing platform on the SuperVolo vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone designed for commercial applications.

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The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification worth more than $7 billion before finalizing a much larger bundle of contracts and agreements to buy more than 470 F-35s for delivery between 2020 and 2022, fulfilling the last three years of low-rate production.

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U.S. Delta Force special operators and at least one dog were ferried by a mix of eight Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and Boeing H-47 Chinook helicopters to raid a compound housing the founder and leader of ISIS.

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A series of software-based upgrades is planned for the international fleet of NH90 land-based and naval helicopters.

The fleet, now 400-strong with the delivery of the first Sea Lion aircraft to the German Navy on Oct. 24, will benefit from a Step 2 avionics enhancement starting in 2022, according to Eberhard Scholl, Airbus’s vice president in charge of the NH90 program.

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Uber Elevate on Oct. 28 revealed a multirotor, tiltwing design for its planned Uber Eats delivery drone.

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Once again, the digging by NASA’s Mars InSight lander has come to a stop—and again, puzzling subsurface soil properties seemingly are to blame.

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