Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
In a bid to “push the envelope” on the use of additive manufacturing in unmanned aircraft, Stratasys and UAV developer Aurora Flight Sciences have built and flown what they say is the first 3D-printed jet aircraft.

By Graham Warwick
As it continues to explore a unique tailless flying-wing design that promises lower drag, NASA Armstrong Research Center has flown the third iteration of its Prandtl-D configuration.

By Mark Carreau
Gyana Ltd. CEO and founder Joyeeta Das has visions of crunching imagery regularly gathered by new constellations of small satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles with data gathered from social media as real-estate investment and urban-planning tools.
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“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
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PARIS—France has begun delivering on a promise to increase air strikes on militant targets in Syria, and plans to deploy the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Gulf next month, tripling its air strike capability in the region.
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While the overall price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class replacement submarine fleet raises some eyebrows, it is the cost of each vessel that will go a long way.
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By Graham Warwick
UAV maker Insitu has demonstrated launch and recovery of its ScanEagle small long-endurance UAV using another unmanned aircraft.

AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE received $65.8m U.S. AIR FORCE contract-option order for ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a ...

Northrop Grumman was named the winner of the ...

The U.S. Air Force has chosen Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering as the first awardee under its program to mature rocket system propulsion technology in pursuit of a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 used for the Atlas V launch vehicle.
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Studies over Greenland reveal the warming atmosphere and ocean around it are hastening the rate at which the massive glaciers covering the landmass are melting.
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By Mark Carreau
Cameras aboard the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft are tracking a slow but impressive transition from fall to winter at the south pole of the moon Titan.
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By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has begun flight tests of its kerosene-fueled High Compression Engine H120 helicopter developed under the European Clean Skies initiative.
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By Jay Menon
India and Russia are likely to finalize an agreement for the manufacture of twin-engine Russian Kamov KA 226T helicopters in India.
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By Graham Warwick
Research and development organization Mitre has launched a prize challenge to help solve the problem of countering unauthorized small unmanned aircraft.
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The Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) transited the Straits of Malacca and conducted routine operations in the South China Sea earlier this month.
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The U.S. Navy failed to properly define engineering services in a recent technology-insertion solicitation, the U.S. GAO says.
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The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 757 USS Alexandria arrived in its new homeport at Naval Base Point Loma in California from the East Coast after undergoing its regularly scheduled engineered overhaul at what the U.S. Navy called record speed.
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L-3 WESCAM announced it will open an authorized service center in...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded the Boeing Co. a $130.1 million contract modification to...

Representatives to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris beginning Nov. 30 will have access to the first year of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory -2.
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By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has announced plans to cut its workforce as it slows production of the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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As the U.S. Defense Department’s Third Offset strategy picks up steam, defense analysts are citing a need to fix Pentagon purchasing to make the concept work.
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By Mark Carreau
GJ 1132b, the closest Earth-sized exoplanet discovery yet, may prove greatly beneficial in the difficult search for evidence of life beyond the solar system.
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