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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

Calendar of upcoming events of interest.
Defense

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

By Irene Klotz
NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.8 billion contract to manufacture 18 additional RS-25 engines to support Space Launch System flights to the Moon.
Space

By Lee Hudson
As the Pentagon continues to invest in equipment to combat the novel coronavirus, the agency awarded a $75.5 million contract to Puritan Medical Products to double its monthly output of 20 million to 40 million swabs to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX completed the 27th and final test of its Mk 3 parachutes on May 1, one of the final milestones before NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley are cleared for a flight test aboard a Crew Dragon capsule.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity conducted the first unpowered gliding test flight from Spaceport America on May 1, marking another key step toward the planned start of commercial suborbital services from the New Mexico site.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon may have wiggle room to use some of its own funding to fight the global coronavirus pandemic.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed Martin has won a $6.07 billion U.S. Army contract to produce Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
An early leader in the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market, Joby Aviation has been secretive about its progress. But new details emerged during the virtual kickoff event of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program on April 27-May 1.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold an in-person nomination hearing May 7 for the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Navy secretary and deputy under secretary of defense for policy, despite the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
The European Commission (EC) has published an amended regulation that lays out requirements to equip aircraft for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) and postpones the compliance date for new aircraft by six months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
The proposed Foreign Military Sales revealed by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency reveal two radically different packages for the Bell AH-1Z or Boeing AH-64E Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Urchick
Global MiG-29 Fulcrum fleets by operator, from Aviation Week's Fleet Discovery Database. To learn about our fleet data products and services, go to: pgs.aviationweek.com/FleetDataServices
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By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin have conducted the third successful flight test of the Precision Strike Missile (PRSM), intended to replace the Army Tactical Missile (ATACMS), with the first prototypes slated to enter the field in 2023.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will receive nearly $1 billion in NASA funding to hone designs and development plans for lunar landing systems to carry a pair of U.S. astronauts to the Moon’s surface in 2024, a time frame the agency is sticking with despite economic and social upheavals caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Tier-1 aerospace and defense systems and equipment supplier Safran is conducting a strong response to the pandemic’s consequences, in a bid to maintain financial balance.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A $707 million contract for F110 engines awarded April 28 to GE Aviation was expedited to help provide relief to a U.S. propulsion industry badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has quietly cleared an important milestone for the MQ-25 Stingray, allowing Boeing to begin production of four engineering development model and three system demonstration test article aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Already cost and schedule challenged across a broad range of space initiatives, NASA faces more stress on both fronts as it surges to achieve an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface with humans in 2024, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Canadian Air Force is pausing operations with its Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters after a Cyclone crashed during military exercises off the coast of Greece.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
While the Pentagon intends to request billions of dollars in the next iteration of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to support the defense industrial base, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) does not believe the Defense Department (DOD) should receive stimulus funding, setting up a likely debate on which federal agencies should get cash.
Budget, Policy & Operations

The Canadian Air Force is pausing operations with its Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters after a Cyclone crashed during military exercises off the coast of
Defense