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

Defense

By Steve Trimble
Gen. Timothy Ray, the head of Global Strike command, favors a concept not based on a modification to an existing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation is extending furloughs for most employees in response to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company said April 9.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Iris Automation on April 6 announced the commercial release of its Casio 360 collision avoidance system for drones, which it described as the first such onboard system with a 360-deg. radial field of view.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
A NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts successfully docked to the International Space Station April 9, just more than 6 hr. after launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with all three men prepared, if necessary, to continue minimal staffing of the orbiting science lab through October.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Europe will launch the public consultation on the technology road map for the proposed Clean Aviation public-private partnership that would follow the current Clean Sky 2 research program.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected Masten Space Systems, of Mojave, California, to launch, land and oversee operations of eight science payloads at the lunar south pole for at least 12 days in 2022 under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
Space

Arlington Capital Partners is bolting on more assets to its AEgis Technologies brand for U.S. national security customers, acquiring boutique

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 286 Western-designed aircraft preforming C4ISR (command, control, communications
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

By Tony Osborne
The European Commission is calling for defense proposals for research and development grants worth up to €160 million ($174 million).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Boeing Global Services has demonstrated an autonomous cargo delivery system to the U.S. Army, the company said on April 8.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
COVID-19 lockdowns in California and the UK have affected a U.S. startup’s plan to fly a hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion testbed as early as this month.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity group focusing on aerospace and defense, is bolting on more assets to its AEgis Technologies brand for U.S. national security customers.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
NASA will invest $7 million to advance a range of 23 early stage technologies with the potential to hasten the journey of humans to Mars and increase the odds of success for robotic missions selected to explore potentially habitable extrasolar planets and ocean worlds.
Space Symposium

BOEING has $68m U.S. Air Force contract for Qatari F-15 maintenance and logistics support for aircraft and training devices conducting predelivery

By Michael Bruno
To the list of potential long-term challenges to commercial aviation from the COVID-19 crisis, add the likelihood of faster growth in high-speed train services for travelers in China and Europe, according to a new report by a major investment bank.
Aerospace

Space-based surveillance provider Aireon and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) announced a partnership April 8 to analyze the
Defense

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

Defense

By Lee Hudson
The head of the House Armed Services Committee is crafting language that would help the defense industrial base in the next COVID-19 stimulus bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A group of Democratic lawmakers protested April 7 against the Trump administration’s “sustained push” to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies and defund the OC-135B replacement program.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force is delaying a SpaceX launch of the third GPS III satellite for two months because of the growing novel coronavirus pandemic.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned April 7 after a recording revealed that Modley called the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s fired captain “naïve or stupid.”
Budget, Policy & Operations