Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

HOUSTON — Russia’s 53 Progress spacecraft, which successfully demonstrated an upgrade to the freighter’s automating docking system in late April

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Selected aerospace and defense contracts for June 2, 2014 AIR FORCE Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, Moorestown, N.J., has been awarded a

United Technologies (UTC) will take a charge of “somewhat less than $500 million” in the second quarter to cover losses on subsidiary Sikorsky’s

The U.S. Air Force’s 711th Human Performance Wing is requesting industry input to develop and deploy miniature physiological sensors to counter the

NEW COMMANDANT: U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford has been nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Gen. James Amos as commandant of the

LONDON — The Polish government is pushing ahead with its plan to purchase 70 new utility helicopters for its army, air force and navy. Project

LONDON — Switzerland has selected a heavy-fuel engine version of the Hermes 900 to meet the country’s need for a new reconnaissance unmanned aerial

PARIS — Inmarsat says the rapid growth of air-to-ground in-flight connectivity services in the U.S. has persuaded the mobile satellite services

With questions slow to come during a Q&A following his June 2 luncheon keynote speech at the 2014 Navy Opportunity Forum, Sean Stackley, assistant U.S

Pakistan is getting ready to buy attack helicopters from Russia as Moscow begins talks on the supply of weapons and military hardware to the cash

The U.S. Navy conducted the first successful test flight of the service’s Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles with modernized avionics subsystems

A man has been fined for flying a small unmanned aircraft over an amusement park in the U.K., in a case the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says sends

HOUSTON – NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin have completed the installation of ablative Avcoat heat shielding on the Orion crew capsule, a

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SINGAPORE — Australia’s defense minister is pressing Lockheed Martin to provide more detail on how the country will be able to maintain its software-rich F-35s. With 19 million lines of computer code, David Johnston is wondering how Australia can make repairs without compromising the platform or having to transport the aircraft to its assembly point in the U.S. “We don’t want to have to reboot the aircraft by calling Fort Worth,” Johnston says.

NASA needs a “disciplined” approach to human space exploration, with clear “pathways” and well-defined shutdown points if a particular approach isn’t working out, according to a detailed National Research Council (NRC) report on U.S. human space exploration released June 4.

REASSURING EUROPE: A $1 billion “European Reassurance Initiative” will be part of the White House’s fiscal 2015 Overseas Contingency Operations budget

Rocket and scramjet developer Aerojet Rocketdyne is looking to additive manufacturing as a way to sustain production of engines over the long term in

ARLINGTON, Va. — As the military and commercial world have come to rely more on GPS for daily operations, there has been a growing concern about the

Airbus Defense and Space in Manching, Germany, is flying a small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft as a proof-of-concept

SINGAPORE — Vietnam appears to have made no progress in getting the U.S. to lift its lethal weapons ban against the country, even though Vietnam is no

Commercial aerospace growth will continue to offset increasingly pressured defense spending worldwide, investor advisors say, leading to an overall

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Aerojet Rocketdyne is targeting a cost of $20-25 million for each pair of new AR-1 engines as the company continues to lobby the government to fund an