Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3 USS Fort Worth completed aviation-related qualifications earlier this month during its first Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercise with Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, the U.S. Navy says.

The U.S. Marines are turning more frequently to commercial transportation to fill the V-22 Osprey's global logistics needs.

RAYTHEON has $200m contract modification from U.S. Missile Defense Agency for continued software and hardware maintenance, limited modeling and simulation support, radar engineering support and Ballistic Missile Defense System test planning, execution and analysis. Work brings total contract value to $910m.

A National Academies panel is recommending the National Nuclear Security Administration develop a series of design competitions “that integrate the full end-to-end design process from novel design conception through production and non-nuclear testing of an engineered prototype,” to preserve the nation’s nuclear weapon design skills and help maintain a credible deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.

Names: Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X), Indonesian Fighter Experimental (IF-X)

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The U.S. Transportation Department plans to finalize what will likely be an emergency rule requiring owners of recreational UAVs to register with the FAA.

Australian defense officials think their response to increasingly assertive China should include a more intimate relationship with the U.S.

Power cylinders were lowered into catapult one on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in a Refueling and Complex Overhaul of the carrier.

The U.S. Army has demonstrated that a command-guided 50mm cannon projectile can shoot down a UAV at a range of more than 1 km (3,300 ft.).

Naval forces and liaisons from India, Japan and U.S. began Exercise Malabar 2015 earlier this month through air defense collaboration, U.S. officials say.

The Defense Science Board says cyber, ballistic defense and undersea warfare are three areas the DOD needs to bolster itself against strategic surprise.

The burgeoning relationship bonding the U.S., Japan and Australia will be key for the American rebalance in the Asia-Pacific, says, Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the Pacific Command.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN began construction of 36,000-sq.-ft. facility

Between October 2010 and July 2015, the U.S. has proposed $90 billion in weapons sales to

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Preliminary findings from the probe into May's fatal Osprey carsh in Hawaii are prompting the U.S. Marine Corps to take more care with maintenance and seemingly simple procedures like foreign object debris protection.

Lockheed Martin says its Icarus counter-UAS system can make a “surgical strike” on a UAV without disrupting the environment.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) says the return-to-flight mission of its Falcon 9 rocket will lift 11 second-generation machine-to-machine satellites for Orbcomm, rather than SES-9.

A Thales Watchkeeper UAV has become the first unmanned system to be operated in U.K. nonsegregated, controlled airspace.

With MV-22 Osprey gaining more ground in global missions and operations, the U.S. Marine Corps is working on developing a more robust logistics and supply chain.

Hawaii V-22 accident appears to have been caused by a newly identified ingestion issue, but a solution is years away at best.

Lockheed Martin has teamed with Israel’s StemRad Ltd. to develop a vest astronauts could wear during solar storms and other dangerous radiation events.

The UAVs have been used at the sites of 16 crashes around the U.K., said Stuart Hawkins, a senior inspector of air accidents delegates to the AAIB.

EUROFIGHTER CONSORTIUM is discussing with customers a manufacturing defect identified during assembly of fin to rear fuselage in all Typhoons produced to date. Defect does not affect safety, company says. Typhoon is in service at 22 operational units.