Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee’s draft fiscal 2020 defense spending bill puts a hold on the proposed Space Development Agency.

Over the next few weeks, the U.S. Army expects to find out whether the DOD will allow it to accelerate efforts to develop an advanced medium utility rotorcraft to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk.

Experts from the German Aerospace Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have not given up on fully deploying the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe.

Sweden is proposing strengthening its air force by retaining older model Gripen C/D fighters well into the 2030s.

Boeing has started early manufacturing activity on the F-15EX for the U.S. Air Force.

The Russian military plans to increase purchases of Tu-160M2 strategic bombers, the latest variant of the Cold War-era Tu-160 Blackjack.

The USAF is taking the biggest hit of all the services as the DOD shifts $1.5 billion as a second installment for building a wall along the U.S. southern border.

The U.S. Army is sticking to plans to power prototypes with the Improved Turbine Engine despite a protest that has stopped work on the new 3,000-shp-class turboshaft.

British engineering firm Marshall Aerospace and Defense has outlined plans to move from its current base in Cambridge by 2030.

Administrator Jim Bridenstine says NASA's 2024 lunar landing is likely to include a female and male astronaut who touch down at the Moon’s south pole.

India’s official defense agency has successfully flight-tested Abhyas, a high-speed expendable aerial target (HEAT).

Rising tension in the Persian Gulf region has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of Israeli intelligence-gathering aircraft over Lebanon and Syria.

Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales, is joining other investors in a new round of financing for Tempo Automation.

Seven weeks after calling for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024, President Donald Trump announced the price tag for expediting the program: an extra $1.6 billion for fiscal 2020.

After 30 years at Raytheon and Hughes in electro-optical imaging and Applied Signal Tech, Stefan Baur recently over the firm's Electronic Warfare Systems product line.

SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is set to descend close to the surface of Ryugu, the long-running mission’s sample return destination, this week.

The USAF has described a possible new approach to rescuing down pilots and wounded soldiers: Air-drop an autonomous aircraft to pick them up and fly them to safety.

The U.S. Air National Guard is to conduct trials with Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable active decoy as part of the U.S. Foreign Comparative Testing program.

Bristow Group has joined a growing list of offshore helicopters operators to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a bid to restructure its operation.

Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.

Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.

RAYTHEON has $15.3m U.S. Navy contract for design agent and engineering services efforts to support Cooperative Engagement Capability.

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Boeing executive Pat Shanahan as U.S. defense secretary.

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