Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Britain’s Meggitt has received third-country status from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo says there is a “strong desire” for Italy to join the UK-led Tempest Future Combat Air System Technology Initiative (FCAS TI).
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Demoing an aircraft that can fly and maneuver with no moving control surfaces, instead using active flow control, is the objective of a new program DARPA plans to begin in fiscal 2020.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Engineers from BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and missile manufacturer MBDA have begun work to integrate the Meteor beyond-visual range air-to-air missile and the SPEAR III network-enabled missile onto the vertical takeoff and landing version of the F-35.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Embraer’s John Slattery will be the first CEO of the Boeing-Embraer commercial aircraft JV that the aircraft manufacturers expect to launch by year’s end.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Under DARPA's Rspace program, BAE is developing software decision aids to help air operations staff assess an air battle plan, monitor progress in real time and continuously project the outcome as it unfolds.
Defense and Space

GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT has $2b U.S. Navy contract for Long Lead Time Material and Economic Ordering Quantity material for fiscal 2019-2023 Virginia class submarines (SSNs 802 – 811).

A small, hand-launched unmanned aircraft flew for 171 min. in late February powered by a structural battery built into the wing—almost double the 91 min. the 6-ft.-span aircraft was able to stay aloft on previous flights using conventional batteries and wings.

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force plans to deploy a new version of Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) missile on the F-35A.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The USAF’s new Skyborg project has a five-year deadline to produce a “fighter-like” prototype of an unmanned aircraft that uses a software-controlled “brain.”
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
The Israeli Ministry of Defense successfully completed a series of intercept tests of an advanced version of the David’s Sling long-range rocket interceptor.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The New Mexico congressional delegation is urging the Pentagon to establish the Space Development Agency (SDA) in its state.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft observed on its flyby of the distant Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule—especially the object’s strange shape —has sent scientists back to the drawing board.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
An Australian company is working to set up a polar-orbit launch base on the southern edge of the continent.
Defense and Space

The launch of India’s Emisat advanced electronic intelligence (Elint) satellite has been postponed until April to allow for more testing.
Defense and Space

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $45.5m U.S. Navy contract for engineering services supporting Littoral Combat Ship Mission Modules Program.

This week should see the fifth flight from 2019 Aviation Week Grand Laureate for Space Rocket Lab

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego,, is awarded an $89,534,733 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide sustainment and engineering services in support of the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System.

By Michael Bruno
Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva will step down as chief executive of Embraer on April 22.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Twelve Joint Strike Fighter-related military construction projects may be delayed or canceled, including an F-35 maintenance hangar, to pay for U.S. President Donald Trump’s barrier projects on the southern border.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
A disposable unmanned cargo glider designed to enable aircraft to resupply fast-moving ground forces over greater distances has entered a new phase of flight testing.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The urban air mobility (UAM) market is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.33% through 2030, a new report said.

By Arie Egozi
Israeli intelligence is closely following the production sites of Iranian-made missiles in Syria.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV delivered the USAF's 10th WGS satellite to geosynchronous orbit March 15 following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral.
Defense and Space