Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The European Union has named 17 more cooperative defense research and development programs that will benefit from the EU’s Permanent Structured Cooperation.

Details have emerged on the qualification of Thales’ Talios targeting pod by French procurement agency DGA.

Boeing and an AI startup have launched SkyGrid, a joint-venture company that will develop an airspace management platform for UAVs and urban air mobility (UAM).

The potential foreign military sales (FMS) of missiles to Japan and munitions kits to NATO are valued at roughly $944 million.

USAFE has begun gearing up for major changes in its UK basing structure in readiness for the arrival of the F-35 and the closure of RAF Mildenhall.

Elbit Systems has formed a JV with Swiss company RUAG to promote the Israeli company’s systems in some European countries and up sales to the Swiss armed forces.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has opted to purchase 25 Boeing F-15 Israel Advanced (IA) aircraft, though formal implementation may be delayed by unrelated political turmoil.

SPACE VECTOR CORP. and ORBITAL ATK (Northrop Grumman) share a combined ceiling $424m indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Sounding Rocket Program-4 (SRP-4).

Early Wednesday morning local time, Arianespace will perform its ninth launch of 2018, orbiting the Mohammed VI-B Earth observation satellite for Morocco aboard a Vega rocket designated VV13 from Kourou, French Guiana.

A raging debate over how much a new Space Force will cost taxpayers intensified with the release of a new estimate.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $348.9m U.S. Navy contract for infrastructure to support laboratory facilities and flight testing for cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide the infrastructure to support F-35 developmental laboratory facilities and flight test activities.

TEL AVIV—The StarLiner UAS, the Swiss version of the Elbit Systems Hermes 900, is in the last phases of certification to fly in Swiss civil airspace.

NASA has selected Jezero Crater, an ancient dry lake with diverse landscapes, from among 64 candidates on the red planet as the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover.

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Captive carry tests of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne low-cost space launch system began on Nov. 18.

European missile manufacturer MBDA has carried out the first firing of its new Marte ER anti-ship missile.

Smaller aerospace fasteners, parts and supply chain services provider Wesco Aircraft is racing to restructure but may already be seeing the effects of the giant acquisition.

Industry is being asked to provide ideas for a key part of the USAF's plan to replace its E-8C J-Stars ground-surveillance fleet with a distributed airborne battle-management system.

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has cut metal on the X-59 QueSST, beginning manufacture of the first part for NASA’s low-boom flight demonstrator.

The International Space Station’s (ISS) small crew successfully finished greeting back-to-back U.S. and Russian cargo missions early Nov. 19.

The future successor to Northrop’s B-2A and Boeing’s B-1B will be maintained and upgraded from the Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base outside of Oklahoma City.

L3 TECHNOLOGIES VERTEX AEROSPACE LLC has $35m U.S. Air Force contract for contractor logistics support of Air Force C-12 fleet.

NASA and Northrop Grumman have delayed for a second day the company’s 10th resupply launch to the International Space Station (ISS).

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The F-35A is expected to join NATO’s extended deterrence mission with the Boeing F-15E. After being modified to receive a B61-12 nuclear bomb, he F-35A will replace the Lockheed Martin F-16 now performing the same mission.