Defense and Space

TransDigm said Nov. 9 that it would acquire the Electron Device Business of Communications & Power Industries (CPI) for $1.39 billion.

The U.S. Air Force’s first T-7A Red Hawk trainer has arrived at its main training base.

Ascent uses government-furnished Hawk T2s to provide Phase 2 fast jet training.

The German Parliament’s budget committee on Nov. 8 approved a change in the contract for the operation of the UAS.

The deal with RV Connex was made at the Defense & Security 2023 exhibition here in Bangkok, where EDGE is participating for the first time.

The SLC-40 upgrade has been spurred by SpaceX’s plans to launch the Starship Super Heavy from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, but NASA had concerns.

The mission, known as USSF-52, will be the seventh for the two-vehicle fleet of Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles.

After four years of assembly and decades of study and planning, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is ready for prelaunch environmental testing.

As E-2Cs retire, the service begins phased upgrades to the E-2D fleet, ending with the biggest modernization since it began fielding Advanced Hawkeyes in 2007.

Structures specialist Qarbon Aerospace and its private equity owners have named Michael Canario as Qarbon’s new CEO.

Houthi air defenses downed a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper over the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Nov. 8 in another increase in tensions in the Middle East.

Geopolitical tensions, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are driving the strongest defense market demand since 2008-09.

Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, spoke at Aviation Week’s A&D Programs conference on Nov. 7.

Additive manufacturing shop Sintavia has signed letter of intent to buy a large 3D printer.

Bulgaria is set to become the 32nd signatory to the Artemis Accords.

Additive manufacturing startup Velo3D is restructuring, including cutting 20% of its workforce.

Follow-up imagery from the NASA Lucy mission’s recent encounter with the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a surprise.

RFA was granted £3.5 million ($4.3 million) by the UK Space Agency.

After 11 years of cooperation with Arianespace, Avio is preparing to become a launch service operator itself in the coming months.

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic is laying off workers to fund production of the Delta variant of its spaceships, the company said late Nov. 7.

The £4 billion ($4.9 billion) deal will see MBDA transfer technologies and knowledge to Polish defense group PGZ.

Thailand has quietly signed an MOU with Israel's Rafael that will see the potential manufacturing and assembly of Rafael's Spike anti-tank missiles in Thailand.

Geopolitical tensions create a demand for carrier deployments that is not likely to abate soon.

Nearly 2,000 cubesats have been launched in the past 20 years.

The panelists spoke Nov. 7 during a discussion on the first day of Aviation Week’s A&D Programs event in Washington.