Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

After a series of certification issues, L-3 says it is making progress on the modification program for its Bombardier Q400-based multi-mission aircraft demonstrator.

The U.S. Air Force’s cybersecurity chief is confident in his service’s ability to protect its networks, but sees the protection of platforms such as fighter aircraft and satellites as his next major challenge.

U.S. Navy officials “justified” the Triton planned procurement quantity of 70 aircraft, the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) says in a recent report.

DDG 64 USS Carney departed its homeport of Mayport, Florida, earlier this month to travel to Rota, Spain, as the final of four Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to be forward deployed there.

ROLLS-ROYCE delivered 2,000th AE 2100 engine for installation onto U.S. Air Force C-130J. Engine also powers C-27J, Japan’s US-2, Saab 2000 civil turboprops.

U.S. Air Force Space Command chief Gen. John Hyten describes the embryonic Joint, Interagency and Coalition Space Operations Center (JICSPOC)

Fractional ownership company Flexjet is adding a number of enhancements, including the adoption of a “One Flight Crew, One Aircraft” model.

Top NASA managers have delayed the “committed” target for the first flight of its $11.5 billion Orion crew vehicle with astronauts on board from August 2021 until April 2023.

Astrosat, India’s first space observatory dedicated to the study of distant celestial objects, is set to launch on Sept. 28.

“The bid from Aerojet is something that we didn’t really take seriously,” ULA Chairman Craig Cooning says.

MBDA has delivered production components for the Sea Ceptor air defense missile system (ADMS) for the Royal Navy frigate Argyll, the first of its Type 23 Duke-class ships to be retrofitted with the new weapon.

Two of the Air Force’s top generals say that a podded, tactical laser is likely to be ready for operational use on aircraft by 2020, a major breakthrough in a technology that has been under slow but steady development for decades.

The U.K. defense ministry says the arrival of the fourth aircraft to Brize Norton on Sept. 10, along with the handover of three other aircraft allows them to declare the type’s capability to undertake extended world-wide tasks.

The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit North Island is providing trainers for fleet technicians on the H-60 Sea Hawk helicopter airframe.

Lockheed Martin says its SC-130J Sea Hercules, envisioned for an anticipated U.K. requirement for a maritime patrol/multimission aircraft, could be ready for service by the end of the decade.

India’s homegrown Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) successfully passed hot-and-high flight trials recently, as it prepares to receive its Initial Operational Clearance (IOC).

SAKOR TECHNOLOGIES delivered system to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio) to test atmospheric flight control system for SIERRA NEVADA Dream Chaser spacecraft.

The Air Force Association’s annual Air & Space Symposium is underway this week near Washington, with speakers including Secretary Deborah Lee James and Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert Carlisle.

Segovia Inc., doing business as Inmarsat Government, Reston, Virginia, was awarded a competitive, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity,

Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral will be the site of a clean-sheet facility for launching Blue Origin’s planned orbital launch vehicle and testing its methane-fueled BE-4 rocket engine.

Selex-ES has developed a system designed to detect, track and if necessary disable consumer-type UAVs, protecting civilian targets such as public events, airports and other infrastructure targets from illegal or threatening activity.

Russia successfully launched its Express AM8 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit atop a Proton M/Block DM-03 launcher Sept. 14 for fleet operator Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC).

First metal was cut for the new A26 submarine at Saab’s Karlskrona, Sweden, shipyard on Sept. 4, the company says.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts could mean a more balanced and joint Chinese military, a recent online report says.

Raytheon has secured a £25 million ($38 million) spiral contract from the U.K. defense ministry to complete development and build a tactical penetrator warhead capability for the Paveway IV precision-guided weapon.