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By Steve Trimble
Aircraft repairs continue as normal despite the novel coronavirus scare at the three sprawling Air Logistics Centers (ALCs), where about 25,000 workers maintain the bulk of the U.S. Air Force aircraft fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Sean Broderick
Representatives of smaller aviation suppliers are pushing for COVID-19 pandemic-related financial relief and prompting eligible companies to tap into newly available government programs, such as Small Business Administration (SBA) loans.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Launching the Mars 2020 rover, recently named Perseverance, this summer remains among NASA’s highest priorities, despite agency-wide shutdowns of its facilities due to health concerns over the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program, which provides ground processing and launch facilities for the integrated Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, is in better shape now than when the program was last audited in 2016, but the agency needs to improve cross-program integration and testing, the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) said March 19.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is confident in the well-being of the International Space Station (ISS) and ongoing efforts to soon resume full staffing of the 15-nation orbiting science lab with launches from U.S. soil.
Space

By Mark Carreau
New research based on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission has revealed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu is composed of a sand-like, cohesionless material, making it essentially a “rubble pile” in space.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is planning for its Poland-based Aegis Ashore complex to be operational by 2022, four years later than originally planned.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is launching Puckboard, a software application to automatically plan C-17 Globemaster III aircrew qualification flights, a task that used to take a 10-20-person operations team several days.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup ThereCraft is developing an unmanned aircraft that can deliver urgent cargo to remote locations with the accuracy of a helicopter but without the need to land or use parachutes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A pending U.S. Navy contract will continue development and testing of a congressionally-directed radar upgrade option for the Northrop Grumman E-2D.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Bradley Perrett
Japan is evaluating the rough-field characteristics of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2, exploring a capability for which the airlifter was not designed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
German unions have stepped into the ongoing discussion over Germany’s plan to replace its Panavia Tornado fighter bomber fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
The mission will mark the first flight of astronauts aboard a U.S. orbital spaceship since space shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, 2011
Space

By Daniel Urchick
AVITATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that 436 new Western-designed aircraft performing military tanking missions will be built in the next ten years while
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has partnered with Asian on-demand helicopter service Ascent Flights Global to advance development of its CityHawk hydrogen

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

By Tony Osborne
The £65 million ($78m) facility, due to open this summer, will lead research into digital aviation technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus UK and Rolls-Royce have joined a list of companies that have responded to a British government call for the rapid production of medical ventilators to treat people suffering with the COVID-19 virus.
Supply Chain

By Molly McMillin
Organizers have postponed the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover and related events in Washington from May until September, given concerns related to COVID-19.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon is developing new air- and ground-launched versions of the Coyote Block II interceptor for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as production ramps up to support surging U.S. Army demand and a newly approved export license.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Berlin’s ILA Air Show has become the latest international event to fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Small French companies—a major part of Airbus’ and other OEM’s supply chain in Europe—are seeing significant challenges as the COVID-19 crisis pummels the economy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Alfred “Al” Worden, the command module pilot on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon, died in his sleep on March 18 in Texas.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Tier 2 provider Triumph Group on Mar. 18 announced a fresh round of significant workforce cuts and restructuring in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boeing 737 MAX shutdown and other issues.
Aircraft & Propulsion