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By Tony Osborne
Germany’s selection of the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a replacement for the Panavia Tornado has triggered a public debate over the country’s role in NATO’s nuclear deterrence plans.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
A week after winning a $135 million NASA contract to support work on its fully reusable, deep-space transportation system, SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of a full-size, second-stage Starship prototype.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Eyeing a new era of airport security that promotes touchless screening and healthier travel, U.S. government services giant Leidos has closed its roughly $1 billion acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ Security Detection and Automation businesses and Leidos leaders see growth potential in a post-coronavirus world.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Greece is to lease Israeli Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air systems to patrol the country’s maritime borders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Over the next decade, the U.S. Army is injecting $8-$10 billion into the vertical lift market via two new Future Vertical Lift programs, but lower-tier suppliers must secure capital funding for tooling to manufacture these new technologies, according to a new report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Space startup Firefly Aerospace aims to complete the first launch of its two-stage Alpha rocket as early as September and says testing of engines and site preparation remain on track despite the threat of potential disruption related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
China has confirmed plans to send a spacecraft to Mars and the Chang’e 5 mission to the Moon by the end of 2020.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine expressed confidence May 4 that the agency’s quest for a nearly 12% budget increase will fare well in Congress despite a mounting deficit linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Sweden has issued a tender to find a basic training aircraft in a move that will restructure the Swedish Armed Forces’ flight school.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
China has launched its new manned spacecraft with the first flight of the Long March 5B, a rocket version intended mainly for missions for building a forthcoming space station.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Startup Sabrewing Aircraft is to re-engine its Rhaegal-A turbo-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft with Safran Helicopter Engines’ Ardiden 3 turboshaft before the technology demonstrator’s first flight, planned later this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
Boeing expects to go into production no later than the mid-2020s with the Airpower Teaming System, a loyal wingman drone it is developing in Australia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Drone operating system developer Auterion has released the reference design for a new family of unmanned aircraft systems avionics modules and announced GE Aviation as the launch manufacturer of its own high-reliability module for drone operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

News in brief
Defense

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

By Steve Trimble
Leidos and Paramount Group USA have teamed up to offer a U.S.-built derivative of a South African design for a low-cost, light attack aircraft for U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) Armed Overwatch program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
After arriving on four trucks from a U.S. Air Force Boneyard in Arizona, a retired B-1 Bomber was unloaded on May 4 here, where it will be disassembled, scanned and reassembled virtually under a six-year project with Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s defense electronics company Havelsan has teamed up with Turkish Aerospace to support the development of software, training and maintenance systems for Ankara’s future TF-X indigenous fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps has accepted delivery of the first CH-53K King Stallion flight simulator at Marine Corps Air Station New River in North Carolina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force will host a “virtual industry day” for the Advanced Battle Management System on May 13, via the medium of the Zoom videoconferencing platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
NASA is close—perhaps within days—of striking a deal with Russia for the purchase of another seat on a Soyuz launch to assure a continuing U.S. presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Space

By Thierry Dubois
LYON, France—Arianespace is planning on resuming operations with a Vega launch in mid-June as activity at Europe’s space center in Kourou, French Guiana, gradually restarts after being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

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

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

Lockheed Martin has won a $6.07 billion U.S. Army contract to produce Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors
Defense