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The long list of the Skunk Works’ historic successes will be remembered on the 80th anniversary of the organization’s founding on June 17.

Lockheed’s tanker engine choice; Iran claims it has hypersonic missile; Japan awards warship contract; Poland’s first FA-50.

The U.S. Air Force should expand its new multiyear procurement authority for additional munitions, the service’s top officer says.

Lockheed Martins announces it will use the GE Aerospace CF6 to power its LMXT should the Airbus A330-based aircraft be built for tanker-transport service.

Piasecki Aircraft plans to convert the former Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Heliplex into an R&D center for next generation VTOL and UAS aircraft systems.

Boston-based Fortify specializes in 3D printers that use composite materials and high-temperature photopolymer resins to make a variety of parts.

Columbia Helicopters President and CEO Michael Tremblett announced the agreement May 31.

Poland's Armaments Agency signed contracts for the delivery of 800 Lockheed Martin AGM-114R2 Hellfire missiles, to equip the country's new AW149 helicopters.

“Four squadrons of F-16s (48 aircraft) are exactly what we need to liberate our country from the aggressor,” Ukraine's defense ministry tweeted May 26

The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.

Five years after Jeff Bezos began wooing NASA to buy Blue Origin lunar landing services, the U.S. space agency said “yes.”

Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.

Aerospace and defense metals specialist IBC Advanced Alloys warned on May 18 that it faced a debt payment crunch.

A second Great Observatory catches the eye of the fledgling in-space services industry.

The U.S. Space Force has granted Rhea Space Activity a contract to study resurrecting the NASA Spitzer space telescope 186 million mi. away from Earth.

Lockheed Martin announced a week after the Kinzhal shoot down that Germany’s PAC-3 MSE/launcher combination remained in operational testing on May 4.

Lockheed Martin Space will reorganize itself around 3 focus areas: commercial civil space, national security space and strategic and missile defense systems.

The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.

Scramjet testing has scored several breakthroughs, but the path forward for the Pentagon’s portfolio of hypersonic glide vehicle projects is unclear.

Top executives see midterm relief from supply chain issues by 2024 but a lot of work in the near term.

L3Harris Technologies posted $4.47 billion in revenue in the first quarter, a 9% annual increase.

Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.

The GAO denial of Sikorsky’s FLRAA protest shows the Army prioritized Bell’s submission detail and open systems architecture over Sikorsky’s much lower cost.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Contenders take different approaches to challenges of lunar rover design as NASA contest nears new stage.