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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

Fleet Snapshot
AWIN Knowledge Center

Calendar of upcoming events of interest to the aerospace & defense industry.
Defense

News in brief
Defense

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

By Tony Osborne
A consortium of Belgian, French, German, Italian and Polish companies and research institutes has been selected to begin research on electromagnetic railguns.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank remains committed to AeroVironment’s high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS) unmanned aircraft, the latter’s top executive said.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Last week’s Russian Defense Ministry contract with Sukhoi for 20 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers is an interim step until development of a modernized variant is completed, an industry source tells Aerospace DAILY.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Czech aerospace firm Aero Vodochody has new owners following its sale by private equity firm Penta Group.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Astrobotic a $199.5 million contract to deliver the Volatiles Investigation Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s south pole in 2023, where it will search for water ice deposits that could be useful to future astronauts.
Commercial Space

By Lee Hudson
The Senate Armed Services Committee blocked the Pentagon’s request for a U.S. Space National Guard and did not address space acquisition in its mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill because the Defense Department did not submit information requested in time for debate, according to a committee aide.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier to the Boeing 737 MAX program, is furloughing more workers after the OEM recently told it to cut o
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Former Royal Air Force Chief of Staff Sir Stephen Hillier has been endorsed by lawmakers to become chairman of the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lee Hudson
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill would establish a Pacific Deterrence Initiative, authorizing $1.4 billion to defend U.S. interests against China.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Slovenia’s Pipistrel has received its first type certificate for an all-electric aircraft, with the Velis Electro two-seat trainer receiving CS-LSA certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 282 new Western-designed military scout helicopters will be built, 25 will be
AWIN Knowledge Center

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