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By Irene Klotz
Gerstenmaier, 65, left NASA last year after being reassigned by Administrator Jim Bridenstine in July to serve as a special advisor to Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
“I think all of us expected it to be a crawl, walk, run sort of situation,” the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told reporters Feb. 12.
Defense

By Lee Hudson, Jen DiMascio
The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program is moving to the Space Development Agency to avoid redundancy.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The new astronauts would be eligible for exploratory missions to the surface of the Moon and perhaps Mars as well as to staff the International Space Station or commercial low-Earth-orbit successors.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipped its 1,000th pair of wing boxes for the Boeing 787 program on Feb. 10, 13 years after the first shipset was dispatched.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Fort Worth-based Bell Textron will work with Japan Airlines (JAL) to explore on-demand air mobility services in Japan with the OEM’s Nexus 4EX electric-vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
The company is expecting the Australian Department of Defense to request tenders for the supply of 29 helicopters late this year or early next.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2021 budget submission shows plans to integrate Northrop Grumman APG-83 AESA radars on 330 more F-16s.
Defense

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $1.87b Foreign Military Sale to India of Integrated Air Defense Weapon System, incl. five AN/MPQ-64Fl Sentinel radars

By Lee Hudson
New problems have been identified during CH-53K King Stallion development testing.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
EASA has released the first edition of its “Artificial Intelligence Roadmap,” a document that begins to answer OEMs’ questions on how to certify an AI-based system.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA has taken a stake in French software analysis company Numalis in a bid to strengthen the artificial-intelligence capabilities of future weapons.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Washington headquarters is in line for the most, $7.75 billion, followed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston with $5.66 billion.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army is seeking $513.5 million in fiscal 2021 for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, up from $398.3 in fiscal 2020, the first year of the program
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Navy admits its five-year budget projection is likely to change once the service’s integrated force structure assessment is released.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The service’s fiscal 2021 budget request once again attempts to defer Block II upgrades for conventional forces Chinooks, but includes money to upgrade special operations forces MH-47Gs.
Defense

By Steve Trimble, Bradley Perrett
Australia’s request to buy the missiles implies it has chosen the AGM-158C for project Air 3023 Phase 1.
Defense

Kellstrom Defense Come See Us! Singapore Airshow, Changi Exhibition Center, February 11-14, 2020, Booth Q63 www.kellstromdefense.com
Defense

News in brief
Defense

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

Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon has caved to congressional pressure and decided to fully fund the midlife refueling of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and restore the aircraft carrier’s associated airwing in its fiscal 2021 budget request.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a rocket motor and scramjet propulsion company, will deliver “enabling technologies” for a Northrop Grumman-designed hypersonic interceptor missile in development by DARPA, the company announced Feb. 10.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force wants to buy new F-35A and F-15EX aircraft in fiscal 2021 while simultaneously funding modernization efforts for F-22, F-15 and F-16 aircraft to remain ready to fight in all domains.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon is requesting $15.4 billion for its newest service—the U.S. Space Force—in fiscal 2021, including a larger-than-anticipated increase in funding for a new generation of missile warning satellites.
Defense