Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

TORONTO — NASA has issued stop-work orders to Boeing and SpaceX pending a resolution of Sierra Nevada’s legal challenge to the agency’s contract awards to the two companies in its Commercial Crew Transportation Capaiblity (CCtCap) competition. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) will have until Jan.

Having weighed the “strategic, operational, and environmental consequences,” the U.S. Navy has decided to base the F-35C aircraft at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California, which was listed as Alternative 2 in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for U.S.

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To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 6-9 — Homeland Security Week, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. For more information go to www.homelandsecurityexpo.com/ Oct. 7-9 — Aviation Week Events, Brazing Symposium, Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona.

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AEROVIRONMENT booked $27.2m in new orders from U.S. Army to supply spare parts for RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AE. ROCKWELL COLLINS demonstrated its

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — Sikorsky has rolled out the first S-97 Raider high-speed armed scout helicopter prototype and is beginning ground tests

The U.S. Defense Department’s Inspector General says the U.S. Air Force did not properly justify its planned $76.8 billion purchase of 401 General

U.S. Navy leaders are still trying to make sense of recent Chinese actions in the Asia-Pacific and nearby waters. Speaking with reporters Sept. 30

TORONTO – Iridium, which sold out the hosted-payload space on its next-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) communications-satellite constellation, says

LONDON – Five offshore oil and gas helicopter operators are signing up to support a new international industry association. Avincis Group, Bristow and

LONDON — Swiss startup helicopter manufacturer Marenco Swisshelicopter has carried out the first flight of its SKYe SH09 single-engine light

Austal USA recently launched the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) Trenton from its shipyard. The ship is now ready to start its final stages of

The amphibious assault ship LHA 5 USS Peleliu, lead ship of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group (PEL ARG), embarked the Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG

BEIJING — Australian composites manufacturer Quickstep will close its U.S. facility and transfer the equipment to licensee Vector Composites of Ohio

The U.S. Navy established the Information Dominance Forces Command (Navidfor) earlier this month. Navidfor is a global readiness-focused type command

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EXELIS, NJ received certification from USAF for its AN/ALQ-211(V)9 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System (AIDEWS) for Pakistani F

LONDON — Germany says it is suspending deliveries of Eurofighter combat aircraft after engineers discovered a manufacturing defect in the rear

LONDON — The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has disbanded one of its two AgustaWestland EH101 Merlin helicopter squadrons, as it hands over the fleet to the Royal Navy. In a ceremony at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, on Sept. 30, the RAF closed down 78 Sqdn., while the Royal Navy stood up 846 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), which will fly the Merlin Mk. 3 helicopters as part of the Commando Helicopter Force, the U.K.’s main amphibious transport helicopter organization.

If there’s one message the U.S. Navy would like to get across about the future Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) aboard the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) or any other ship in the fleet: don’t count your missiles before they are bought. While the Navy and the Norwegian company recently touted a successful NSM test off the LCS 4 USS Coronado, the service brass is now emphasizing that putting the NSM on an LCS – or aboard any other ship in the fleet for that matter – is not a foregone conclusion.

TORONTO — The heads of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) signed agreements here Tuesday setting up a working group to explore

HOUSTON — Preparations for the early December launch of Exploration Flight Test-1, the first unpiloted test flight of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion

NEW DELHI — The indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) is now ready for acceptance testing after the first aircraft built to series production

LONDON — German investigators probing the crash of a military-chartered Learjet 35A have found that the aircraft banked into one of two German air