Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

BIRD Aerosystems, a developer of airborne missile protections systems and special mission aircraft products, has launched a compact version of its all-in-one AeroShield POD (put on device) to provide antimissile protection for medium-size VIP business jets.

S7 Space Corp. will relocate its Sea Launch complex to Russia.

Recently revived Stratolaunch has expanded its workforce sevenfold since October when it changed owners, and has announced plans to become a high-speed testbed provider.

NATO formally opened a four-nation training center for special forces air crews in Central and Eastern Europe in Croatia on Dec. 11.

Centauri, a provider of bespoke space, intel, directed energy and cyber services to government agencies, has acquired The Design Knowledge Co. and PreTalen.

PrecisionHawk announced a $32 million venture capital investment on Dec. 11.

U.S. Southern Command deployed one P-8A to Punta Arenas, Chile, on Dec. 10 to support the ongoing search for a Chilean Air Force C-130 Hercules that went missing.

The GE Aviation subsidiary has opened a new production facility, repair operation and headquarters in Brockworth, England,

Japan has canceled plans to end local assembly of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), the Nikkei newspaper reported.

PrecisionHawk, a developer of enterprise software for drone applications, announced a $32 million venture capital investment on Dec. 11.

The South Korean parliament has fully approved the 2020 budget requested by the defense ministry, giving the military a 7.4% rise in funding.

The provider of bespoke space, intelligence, directed energy and cyber services to government agencies has acquired The Design Knowledge Co. and PreTalen.

Airbus has delivered the first of seven H145 twin-engine light helicopters to the German Army to support its search-and-rescue mission.

The experimental cubesat will monitor aircraft signals from space to support rescue organizations.

Serbia has taken delivery of four Mil Mi-35M attack helicopters from Russia, bolstering the country’s depleted air force.

The parliament approved 1.403 trillion won ($1.2 billion) for the KF-X program as part of the 2020 defense budget passed on Dec. 10.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Linthicum, Maryland, has been awarded a $188,995,364 modification for the firm-fixed-price portion of a previously-awarded contract (M67854-19-C-0043).

In Washington this week the House may consider the National Defense Authorization Act conference report as early as Wednesday.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $13m U.S. Air Force contract for Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) efforts.

BIRD Aerosystems has launched a compact version of its all-in-one AeroShield POD for medium-size business jets.

NATO is pursuing new ways to organize, train and equip badly needed, specialized capabilities.

Airbus has delivered the first of seven H145 twin-engine light helicopters to the German Army.

GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. began MQ-9 maritime surveillance demonstration flights Dec. 10 for the Hellenic Air Force out of Larissa air base, Greece.

Bell and Boeing have delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps the first of as many as 129 MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors to undergo the Common Configuration-Readiness and Modernization (CC-RAM) program.

British manufacturer Senior is considering selling its aerostructures business, the company has confirmed.