ASD

Subscription Required

 

ASD is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.

Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily & Defense Report through your company? Login with your existing email and password.

Not a member?  Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what's happening in the aerospace and defense community.

LoginLearn How

Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN)

Access Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, included with your AWIN membership, delivers critical business intelligence to keep aerospace and defense leaders in industry and government, including those in Congress, the Pentagon, and their global counterparts, informed of the latest, critical intelligence on programs, budgets and policies in defense, as well as military and civil space. Delivered directly to your inbox each business day, you’ll find news and analysis of key developments, and their impact on business – and includes targeted editorial features, including developments covering fleet movement, MRO projections, contracts and more.

 

 

By Graham Warwick
Airbus has named two new suppliers for its CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Japan has passed a bill enabling the government to take over certain production lines should a private supplier decide to withdraw from a military program.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Bell says the finishing line is in sight for certification of its long-delayed 525 super-medium helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Two astronauts finished preparations for the future installation of a final pair of Roll Out Solar Arrays on the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Joe Acaba was among three teachers selected by NASA to become astronauts.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The program seeks to validate a cost-saving approach to fielding aircraft, with the Air Force’s proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft as a potential recipient.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
The challenge centers on developing new approaches for effectively tracking objects in low-light conditions, whether in enclosed or open environments.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
A 2021 review cut the UK's planned Boeing E-7 Wedgetail fleet from five aircraft to three.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The F-35 now can use the Multi-Utilization Secure Tactical And Network Ground Station, a ground system that receives and relays data from an in-flight F-35.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
A turbine-engine Enstrom 480B took to the air in late January after the company was saved from bankruptcy in May 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Video shows a rollout and spooling up of the Hurjet advanced jet trainer's General Electric F404 engine at Turkish Aerospace's facility in Ankara.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The White House led high-level meetings this week with Indian officials.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The service has had to compress development of C-130J missions onto the A400M.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Throughput of the UK Royal Air Force’s pilot training pipeline is improving, the head of the service has insisted.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
A UK university team has been awarded £520,000 ($643,400) to develop an artificially intelligent (AI) software program to predict solar storms.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to break up the Tranche 2 Transport Layer of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Space

By Steve Trimble
Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed an eight-propulsor, monohull design for the DARPA Liberty Lifter program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
A 95-page NASA 2023 Spinoff publication was released Jan. 31.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
Azul Conecta is a regional subsidiary of Brazilian LCC Azul.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s Aerofugia, a subsidiary of carmaker Geely, has flown a prototype five-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi, the AE200 X01.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Switzerland has completed a series of avionics upgrades for its McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The investment will support maintenance of the General Electric F414 engines that equip Sweden’s new Gripen E fighters and older F404 engines on its Gripen C/D.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Bell Textron is developing military modification kits for its commercial helicopters, targeting nations with urgent security needs but limited defense budgets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A program to develop, field and sustain 300 ballistic missiles with maneuverable reentry vehicles over a 20-year period would cost $13.4 million, CBO says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
France and Italy are jointly purchasing nearly 700 Aster surface-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons