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 Tony Osborne
NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force has taken delivery of its fifth Northrop Grumman RQ-4D Global Hawk unmanned air system, completing the fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Two senior House Progressive Caucus members are requesting that President-Elect Joe Biden nominate a defense secretary who has not been previously employed as a defense contractor, which may rule out rumored favorite Michele Flournoy.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Aireon on Nov. 12 announced an agreement with the FAA allowing the agency access to its satellite-routed aircraft surveillance data to evaluate different air traffic control applications.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Qatar has signed up to use Leonardo’s International Flight Training School to instruct pilots for its expanded combat aircraft fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) suggests to heavily upgrading the Surion for a program that could greatly enlarge the South Korean army’s utility helicopter fleet
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Northrop Grumman is looking to become the third major missile provider to the Pentagon and allied customers, the company’s chief executive said Nov. 11.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Britain is introducing new powers to screen investments in a bid to protect vital national industries.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators are looking to accelerate two weapons programs—the U.S. Air Force’s Golden Horde and the Army’s long-range fires and air and missile defense development.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Leonardo is to deliver a new version of its C-27J Spartan turboprop airlifter to an undisclosed customer in 2021.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
German start-up Lilium has announced that the first electric regional air mobility network in the U.S. will be launched in 2025 in Florida.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a pioneering provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, for about $350 million.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Aerospace DAILY understands that SOCOM expects an independent review of the Armed Overwatch program will be complete in early or the spring of 2021, allowing the flight demonstration to begin in the summer.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators are calling out the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for misusing aircraft advance procurement funding, according to a report accompanying the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Japan’s Sony Corp. has announced the start of a drone development project aimed at video production for the entertainment and other industries.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Projects to use drones to deliver COVID-19 supplies are among the first wave of winners under the UK’s £125 million ($165 million) Future Flight Challenge.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
South Korea staged its first urban air mobility demonstration in Seoul on Nov. 11, including drone and electric air taxi demonstrations using the developmental K-Drone low-altitude traffic management system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
The $3.84 billion lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway that NASA envisions as part of a long-term strategy to establish a sustained human presence at the Moon is unlikely to be in place in time to support the Trump administration’s goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024, an audit by the agency’s inspector general says.
Space

By Bradley Perrett, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
A Japanese minister charged with improving efficiency will hold a public review of the F-X program for a new Japanese fighter on Nov. 14.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 10 completed the Flight Readiness Review for the first post-shuttle, operational International Space Station (ISS) crew rotation mission from the U.S., paving the way for a launch attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:49 p.m. EST on Nov. 14 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The day after President Donald Trump fired former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a slew of Pentagon officials have resigned from their posts, including the acting under secretary of defense for policy.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators propose blocking the military and intelligence community from using any provider other than the Space Force launch enterprise for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions unless granted a waiver by the defense secretary or director of national intelligence.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators are seeking a comprehensive acquisition strategy for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program from both the Missile Defense Agency and Space Development Agency (SDA), according to a report accompanying the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

President-elect Joe Biden has selected an eight-member team of volunteers, headed by Ellen Stofan, former NASA chief scientist and current director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, to oversee the transition of NASA to his administration.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators agree that the requirements and acquisition strategy for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) are fuzzy, and also dismiss the Pentagon’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) legislative proposal, according to a report accompanying the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The joint NASA/European Space Agency mission to return samples from Mars’ surface faces a likely cost increase and two-year launch delay to address the challenges needed to achieve a high probability of success, according to an unusual, early independent review of the complex effort.
Space