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By Bill Carey
FAA is advancing a construct based on third-party UAS Service Suppliers—rather than air traffic controllers—providing flight authorization, traffic deconfliction and other services.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
The Boeing 737 MAX production halt is a catalyst for Triumph Group to further consolidate its interiors and Mexican operations, top executives said Feb. 6, adding more divestiture announcements should be expected this year.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales, Lockheed Martin, employed about 110,000 workers at the end of 2019.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Space Development Agency intends to hold an industry day in Colorado Springs that coincides with the National Space Symposium.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
KBR, Inc. will train commercial astronauts selected for missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps other destinations under a nonexclusive NASA Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Ball Aerospace expects to hire around 1,000 new employees in 2020, following similar annual increases in recent years, executives said Feb. 6.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Northrop Grumman’s board of directors has elected David F. Keffer corporate vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective Feb. 17

By Irene Klotz
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 satellites for aspiring broadband operator OneWeb lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Feb. 6, setting the stage for monthly flights to build an initial constellation of 648 spacecraft.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
After forming a strategic partnership in 2019, Alphabet company Loon and SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile have jointly developed a broadband-internet communications payload for the AeroVironment-designed Hawk30 high-altitude pseudo-satellite.
Defense

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
In addition to a software problem that ultimately forced Boeing to abandon a docking of its first CST-100 Starliner at the International Space Station, the uncrewed capsule suffered a second, previously unreported software problem during its December flight test.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has been awarded additional study contracts to support the militarization of the company’s H160 twin-engine medium helicopter to meet the needs of the French military.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson has hinted of a new regulatory regime around aircraft certification leaning on lessons learned from the ongoing Boeing 737 MAX debacle.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The first modernized Tupolev Tu-160M, the latest variant of the Cold War-era Tu-160 Blackjack heavy strategic bomber, made its first flight on Feb. 2..
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
SYDNEY—Mitsubishi Aircraft has deferred first delivery of the SpaceJet by at least nine months—from mid-2020 until no earlier than the fiscal year
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
L3Harris has received the green light to develop an experimental spacecraft that will improve the military’s positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Russian Helicopters announced on Feb. 6 a “road map” that establishes a fixed schedule for localizing assembly tasks for the Ka-226T helicopter in India.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Impacted by trade tariffs and the dollar’s higher value, U.S. rotorcraft maker Robinson Helicopters saw deliveries drop by over a third in 2019, compared to the 316 aircraft handed over the year before.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau
EASA published an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) Feb. 6 requiring a liquid-prohibited zone in Airbus A350 cockpits, following two inflight engine shutdown incidents.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
Record-setting NASA astronaut Christina Koch was among three U.S., European and Russian International Space Station crewmembers who ended long missions to the ISS on Feb. 6.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Space Force may be up and running, but it is still working out the details of how it will run, what its uniformed members will be called, and how it will acquire the future tools it will need.
Defense

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The JF-17 Thunder (also known as the FC-1 Xiaolong “Fierce Dragon”) is a single-engine, multirole, light fighter aircraft developed by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC).
Defense

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next decade, 1,491 new-build training and light combat aircraft (LCA) will be delivered to military
Defense

NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission in December 2022 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape