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
A document published by the Italian Senate appears to confirm the sale of Leonardo AW149 and AW189 twin-engine transport helicopters to Egypt.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

Xwing, a startup planning to retrofit general-aviation aircraft for autonomous flight, has raised $10 million in funding and announced new hires to
Defense

Conferences and events for professionals in the aerospace community.
Defense

By Daniel Urchick
To learn about our fleet data products and services, go to pgs.aviationweek.com/FleetDataServices
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Steve Trimble
Leidos will design and demonstrate the autonomy platform that will be integrated into and control the U.S. Air Force’s future family of Skyborg unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Launch service companies could be given the discretion to decide the optimal launch plan to support the 30 satellites in Tranche 0 of the Space Development Agency’s future military surveillance and communications architecture in low Earth orbit, the agency said May 20.
Space

The U.S. Navy has selected Leonardo’s TH-119 training helicopter despite being underbid by Airbus by $85 million, documents released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office reveal.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo’s Osprey active electronically scanned array flat panel radar is to equip a pair of Beechcraft King Air maritime surveillance aircraft operated for the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
British satellite launcher firm Skyrora has undertaken a full static fire test of its Skylark-L rocket, the first test of this scale since the UK’s Black Arrow program 50 years ago.
Space

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—Four UK space companies have teamed up to form a consortium to secure roles in British government programs as the country looks to grow its presence in space.
Space

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 706 new Western-designed attack helicopters will be built, 588 will be remanufactured
AWIN Knowledge Center

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

The U.S. Air Force has kicked off a three-way competition to re-engine the entire 76-aircraft B-52 fleet from 2021 to 2035. The request for proposals
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Two of the U.S. Defense Department’s most advanced hypersonic programs have fallen months behind schedule, the head of the Pentagon’s Research and Engineering branch confirmed on May 20.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy request for information for a land-based aircraft to replace the Boeing T-45 may not represent the final requirement when the request for proposals is released, the service’s top acquisition official said on May 20.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 20 for final preparations ahead of launch next week to test SpaceX’s Crew Dragon system.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has renamed its struggling Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope in honor of the late Nancy Grace Roman, a longtime pioneering woman astronomer sometimes referred to as the “Mother of Hubble.”
Space

By Bill Carey
A new study suggests that most operators disregarded the FAA’s system for authorizing drone flights in controlled airspace when flying near a large central Florida airport.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Boeing, which was shut out of nearly $1 billion of NASA funding to develop human-class lunar landers, said it does not plan to protest the awards, which went to teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Spanish defense electronics firm Indra is taking the lead on a European Union program to develop an aircraft-mountable pod equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) for radar, communications, and electronic warfare functionality.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s ninth resupply mission was on course to reach the three-person International Space Station (ISS) early May 25 following a May 20 liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Center.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
A BAE Systems program to upgrade Australia’s three over-the-horizon radars amounts to rebuilding the sensor system, addressing parts obsolescence while providing a jump in performance.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
UK MRO firm STS Aviation Services plans to convert Boeing 737s into E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning platforms for the British Royal Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Commerce Department on May 19 released a long-awaited new rule for the export of remote sensing services.
Space