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Joel Montalbano will become acting NASA International Space Station program manager, effective June 26, the agency said.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Acting Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker, who raised concerns in 2019 about the legality of the U.S. freezing aid to Ukraine, has resigned.
Budget, Policy & Operations

News in brief
Defense

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

By Tony Osborne
Ottawa is lifting the operational pause on its fleet of Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone naval helicopters after investigators ruled out mechanical failure as the cause of an April 29 crash in the Mediterranean Sea.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is defining details of what the first block of a Defense Department-wide architecture for space-based missile warning systems would look like and will present the plan to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
The Sikorsky-Boeing team expects to reach its speed target for the SB-1 Defiant coaxial-rotor compound helicopter within the next few months after exceeding 200 kt. for the first time in flight testing at West Palm Beach, Florida.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s Royal Air Force has developed an in-house modification enabling an aeromedical capability for its BAE Systems’ 146 transport aircraft fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Startup H55 has received funding support from the Swiss canton of Valais which will enable the Solar Impulse spinoff to begin delivery of electric propulsion systems for aircraft by early 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Heidi Wood, an aerospace and defense analyst-turned-strategist, will temporarily take over pilot training and simulator provider CAE’s defense and security group after recent hire Todd Probert left for a job in the U.S. national security realm.
Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will acquire CPI ASC Signal Division from Communications & Power Industries for $35 million in cash, in a deal that further guarantees the U.S. government at least two major providers of key satellite communications technology.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Operation Warp Speed aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine to inoculate the spread of the novel coronavirus by January, but senior Trump administration officials acknowledge that they cannot guarantee a 100% success rate.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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

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