Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Bye Aerospace has flown its electric-powered Sun Flyer 2 prototype fitted with the Siemens motor planned for production aircraft.

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) climate research orbiter is embracing new duties.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Oil-and-gas helicopter operator Bristow Group has abandoned its proposed takeover of Columbia Helicopters as Bristow struggles with financial issues.

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army has taken the first step to acquire four new battalions of ground-based defensive systems against fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and large unmanned aircraft systems.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Flir Systems is buying the former iRobot defense unit, one of the Pentagon’s top unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) providers, for $385 million in cash.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey has revealed the first details of its partnership to develop a high-altitude pseudo-sat developed for the cartography mission.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The Pentagon's Inspector General plans to evaluate whether the U.S. Air Force followed the rules when it certified SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets to launch national security payloads.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is supportive of a $750 billion fiscal 2020 defense budget and does not care how the Pentagon gets there, even if it means using the wartime funding account.
Defense and Space

India’s state-run defense agency has tested an indigenously developed ramjet propulsion technology for long-range, air-to-air missiles.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Costs of the Calt Long March 3A-series space launcher have dropped dramatically with an acceleration in usage, industry managers say.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The international Starburst Accelerator group is partnering with worldwide networking group Techstars to launch a startup-business accelerator focused on new business models pursuing new space technologies.
Defense and Space

By Molly McMillin
As expected, Embraer delivered 91 business jets in 2018, including 64 light and 27 large jets, missing earlier projections of 105 to 125 aircraft, the company said Feb. 11.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is sounding an urgent note as the agency’s Commercial Crew Program prepares for test flights of SpaceX and Boeing vehicles.
Space

By Mark Carreau
“Bowling pin,” then “snowman” and now “giant pancake” and “thick, dented walnut,” That’s how NASA’s New Horizons mission team has moved along with its description of Ultima Thule.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Boeing delivered the fifth KC-46 aircraft to the U.S. Air Force on Feb. 8—the first to Altus AFB, Oklahoma.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Multinational aerospace engine and component company Safran has finalized the acquisition of Collins Aerospace’s electromechanical systems business unit.

By Bradley Perrett
Australia will begin upgrading its facilities next year at a Malaysian base from which it patrols the South China Sea and north Indian Ocean.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
The Israel state comptroller says he will investigate Israel’s Air Force One program, which is lagging behind schedule and eclipsing its original budget.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
The UK's decision to leave the European Union could force a launch startup to move to Germany.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The likelihood of using air taxis varies significantly among the four locations in which people were surveyed.

By Tony Osborne
The UK's RAF is planning to introduce a fleet of network-enabled UAS that will be able to confuse and overwhelm ground-based enemy air defenses.
Defense and Space

Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright Corp. have partnered to develop a new generation of cockpit voice and flight-data recorders (CVR/FDR).

RAYTHEON/LOCKHEED MARTIN JAVELIN JV has $26.2m U.S. Army contract for Command Launch Unit retrofits.

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A Jan. 31 Aerospace DAILY article said L3 Technologies “this quarter will cut headcount by 12%, including possible layoffs,” as it looks to close its merger with Harris Corp.