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.

 

 

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A Republican senator’s proposal in a June 25 amendment to the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill would allow the U.S. Army to acquire Turkey’s S-400 batteries.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
General Atomics has demonstrated the first launch and control of small, air-dropped UAS from an MQ-1C.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The idea of blasting a boost-phase ballistic weapon out of the sky with a high-energy laser mounted on an aircraft has always been ambitious, and it remains so after 20 years of failed attempts.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Mining lunar ice could rein in the cost of future human cislunar space activities as well as expeditions to Mars, according to proponents.
Space

By Bill Carey
The slackening of air traffic worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic offers time to take stock of what Collins Aerospace calls the Datalink Dilemma—the increasing volume of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) data sent over VHF frequencies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
An acceptance ceremony was held at Airbus’ facility in Getafe, near Madrid, on June 29, ready for its delivery flight to the MMU’s main operating base of Eindhoven, Netherlands, planned for June 30.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The Brazilian air force on June 27 accepted delivery of the third operational Embraer KC-390 tanker-transport, Air Lieutenant Brigadier Carlos de
Defense

By Steve Trimble
In what might be a rare reference to the Lockheed Martin AIM-260 program, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) slipped an authorization into the
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department chose not to fund a critical new space-based sensor for hypersonic defense, but lawmakers have stepped in to rescue the
Defense

By Steve Trimble
U.S. lawmakers have intervened to stop the Defense Department from ending production of the P-8A until the last two squadrons of Navy Reserve P-3Cs
Defense

By Steve Trimble
An attempt by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to acquire a new light attack aircraft has met with sharp scrutiny in the program’s first
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo soared over its new home base near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on June 25, completing the second glide flight since relocating from the company’s manufacturing and test hub in Mojave, California.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Campaigning has begun in Switzerland in preparation for a referendum on whether the country should purchase new combat aircraft and ground-based air defense systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The Arsenal Plane concept is the focus of a new partnership between the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office and the U.S. Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Kirk Shireman, NASA’s former manager of the International Space Station, is joining Lockheed Martin to head its lunar exploration initiatives, including the development of a Blue Origin-led system to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken completed a 6-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on June 26, initiating the final chapter in a multiyear upgrade of the solar power storage batteries on the orbiting lab’s 360-ft.-long solar power truss.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Plans to establish a vertical-launch spaceport in Northern Scotland have been approved by local authorities, a significant milestone for the project.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Boeing says Morocco will become the 17th operator of its AH-64E Apache following the signing of a contract to purchase 24 of the attack helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Exquadrum announced on June 25 it has completed the second and final live test of a full-scale hybrid rocket motor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that could be used to power hypersonic missiles, missile defense interceptors and orbital space launchers.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany has signed contracts with Airbus and Hensoldt for the development, supply and integration of an active electronically scanned array radar for the Eurofighter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Molly McMillin
Embraer’s Services and Support division n has completed the first conversion of a Legacy 450 to a Praetor 500 for an undisclosed customer. The midsize jet conversion was performed at Embraer’s Executive Jet Service Center at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Ireland appears to be taking its first tentative steps toward a fighter procurement for defense of the country’s airspace.
Budget, Policy & Operations