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Leonardo has increased its stake in Italian space company Avio to just less than 30%. Leonardo purchased another 3.75% of Avio during trading on May
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The European Commission has awarded €205 million ($230.5 million) in research and development funds to 16 multinational defense projects.
Budget, Policy & Operations

The European Commission has awarded €205 million ($230.5 million) in research and development funds to 16 multinational defense projects.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force has 394 KC-135s, 59 KC-10s and now more than 33 KC-46As, but that still is not enough by about a half. In fact, the Air Force’s major commands requested air refueling on 6,174 training sorties last year, but received tanker support for only 3,092.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—Leonardo Helicopters has secured European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for the Safran Aneto 1K-powered version of the AW189 super-medium helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies took the wraps off its Alia electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in spectacular fashion on June 12, when the prototype was airlifted by helicopter across Lake Champlain to begin flight testing from Platsburg International Airport in New York.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Russian Helicopters is hoping to plant its flag in Mexico’s commercial light helicopter market with its Kazan Ansat twin-engine light rotorcraft.
Marketplace

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14.2 million contract to provide commercial satellite buses for the Blackjack program to demonstrate a military constellation of autonomous satellites in low Earth orbit connected by a high-speed network.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Air Force has deployed General Atomics’ MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air systems to Estonia, marking the first such deployment of the platform to the Baltic States.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Fresh off a major milestone in a difficult 10-year effort by NASA to establish a U.S. commercial capability to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), Kathy Lueders has taken over leadership of an accelerated effort by the agency to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface in 2024.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has increased its stake in Italian space company Avio to just less than 30%.
Space

By Guy Norris
After an 11-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rocket Lab resumed launch operations on June 13 by successfully launching a payload of small satellites for NASA, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the University of New South Wales Canberra Space into low Earth orbit.
Space

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

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

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is canvassing industry to gauge whether other companies besides F-35 incumbent Lockheed Martin are capable of fulfilling a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract.
Supply Chain

By Lee Hudson
Will Roper, who leads U.S. Air Force acquisition, is requesting that the service take over an artificial intelligence (AI) project called Project Maven.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The CEO of UK engineering company Babcock has once again cast doubt on the future of its offshore helicopter business.
Marketplace

By Tony Osborne
Oil-and-gas helicopter operators Bristow Group and Era Group completed their merger on June 12.
Marketplace

By Tony Osborne
The Houthis’ use of ballistic and cruise missiles against the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen could inadvertently widen the conflict, a study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Representatives from the three commercial Human Lander System developers recently chosen by NASA to shuttle future astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface are expressing confidence that their efforts can help the agency achieve the White House goal of returning to the Moon with astronauts in 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence.
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
The first Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) AT-5 advanced trainer flew at Taiwan’s Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on June 10, meeting a schedule target set two years ago.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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Defense

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