ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES and ALPHA DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES teamed to supply mini-UASs, including IAI’s Bird-Eye 400 and 650, in India; system production will take place in India, while marketing will be a joint effort between the companies. ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES delivered its first T-38 replacement wing to USAF; program calls for up to 200 shipsets. RAYTHEON IIS has $270m U.S. Navy contract to provide V-22 systems, testing and software out of Indianapolis.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), chairman of the environmental subcommittee, said the nation can ill afford lapses in weather-satellite coverage. "Instead of continuing down the path of large government-owned satellites that are prone to cost overruns and delays, we must look outside the box for new methods of providing essential weather data," he said.
India's defense ministry has been asking for extensions, a Boeing India executive says. "We did provide them as and when appropriate," he says. "It is not always possible to keep extending, because we live in a world where we feel inflationary pressure."
The 5.5-ton, twin-engine Dhruv, manufactured by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), has been clocking a worrisome safety record recently, with three accidents in less than a month.
The F-35 program has no firm plan to shift to Quickstep’s glycol-based production method. But Quickstep, with Lockheed Martin’s support, has run tests on hundreds of pieces made with the process.
Senior U.S. Air Force officials remain confident the service will achieve its plan to declare initial operational capability (IOC) for the F-35A by the end of December 2016, though doing so is presenting a major challenge in maintenance resourcing.
BAE expects to expand its operation at RAAF Williamtown, Newcastle, for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrades of F-35 airframes. "Depending on the customer’s requirements, new infrastructure may be required at our facility in Williamtown," a BAE spokeswoman says.
The work will be undertaken in a 150,000-sq.-ft. building that Virgin will lease in Douglas Park, an industrial area on the north side of Long Beach airport built on land formerly occupied by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.
In the midst of a major budget crunch at the Pentagon, the Air Force is ill-equipped to explain just how a request for $220.5 million for a “red air” aggressor aircraft got into the fiscal 2016 budget plan sent to Congress Feb. 2.
The two armed services this week unveiled their respective lists, following the Navy and Marine Corps last June, as well as the Defense Logistics Agency in December.
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The order for the fighters, plus a DCNS Fremm multipurpose frigate and MBDA missiles, will be signed on Monday, Feb. 16 in Cairo by Defense Minister Jean-Yves le Drian.
Forced to attempt its Falcon 9 first stage recoveries at sea, primarily for safety reasons, SpaceX now plans to beef up the seaworthiness of its autonomous spaceport drone ship to handle more extreme weathers and sea states.
Norway-based Telenor Satellite Broadcasting expects to assume control of its newly-completed Thor 7 multimission communications satellite from Space Systems/Loral (SSL) in early June.
