Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
The "coastal patrol" UH-60 would be a low-cost alternative to the U.S. Navy’s more advanced MH-60R.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin Space will demonstrate a new booster for a submarine-launched, intermediate-range hypersonic weapon.
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By Michael Bruno
Honeywell said Nov. 30 it plans to move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Morris Plains, New Jersey.
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By Michael Bruno
Honeywell said it has started testing commercial microfabricated trapped-ion qubit devices as the company spins up a quantum computing-related business line.
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By Bradley Perrett
Subaru is aiming for large cost reductions in production of a new version of the Bell 412 that the company will build for the Japanese army and civil customers.
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By Bradley Perrett
Japan’s prospective requirement for attack helos is likely to include shipboard operation and entry into service no later than the mid-2020s.
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By Michael Bruno
UAS specialist General Atomics Aeronautical Systems wants to grow ties and work with defense suppliers and related businesses in Japan, the company said.
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India’s national defense agency has successfully tested a new Stand-off Anti-Tank missile meant to bolster the military’s multi-platform launch capability.
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By Michael Bruno
DHS has developed a new low-cost antenna and has already transferred the technology to three unidentified companies for commercialization.
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By Bradley Perrett
A Japanese final-assembly plant for Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings has capacity for continued and faster production after the country’s current order is complete.
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GENERAL ATOMICS opened new office in New Delhi and appointed Pratesh Gandhi director of the company’s business in India.

The U.S. Navy is seeking an autonomous cargo-unmanned aerial system and will host an experiment in March to transport a 50-lb. payload.

By Steve Trimble
A USAF plan to grow by 74 operational squadrons over the next 12 years may include a 400% increase in units dedicated to the electronic warfare mission.
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By Steve Trimble
A new Russian anti-ship missile and one of its likely U.S. countermeasures are racing to be fielded at sea by the end of next year.
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Irene Klotz
NASA has selected nine companies eligible to fly small payloads to the surface of the Moon.
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Michael Bruno
With a combined annual supply chain and outsourced budget of $9 billion, the leaders of the future L3 Harris Technologies defense and aerospace services giant will rein in those costs to help reach at least $500 million in savings over three years, the company’s COO-designate said Nov. 29.
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By Graham Warwick
German air rescue organization ADAC Luftrettung is to study the feasibility of using Volocopter eVTOL aircraft as air shuttles for emergency doctors.
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Arie Egozi
Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a cooperative agreement that covers commercial and military aviation, in Israel and globally.
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By Steve Trimble
A decade-long pursuit of a forward-firing gun system for the Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft is moving toward a flying experiment.
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By Guy Norris
Details of SpaceX’s planned inflight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2019 have been revealed.
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By Graham Warwick
Under DARPA’s Concerto program, BAE Systems demoed a multifunction RF system that could simultaneously perform radar, comm relay and electronic attack in a payload that could be carried on a Group 3 UAV.
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By Steve Trimble
An unplanned redesign of the NGJ MB system played a role in the U.S. Navy’s rejection of a Raytheon bid to use the same pods for a NGJ Low Band demo program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

India’s national space agency has successfully put into orbit its first Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS).
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By Mark Carreau
New Rocket, Ltd. of Israel anticipates the flight readiness of a new green, in-space propulsion system by the end of the first quarter of 2019.
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