Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
The decision to upgrade to the AH-64E makes the Netherlands the second European nation to follow this path, after the UK.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
“The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
Defense and Space

India’s space agency has successfully put into orbit two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—in a rare night launch for the country.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Lockheed Martin anticipates exporting the cruise missile in three years.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
BAE Systems is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to cut the cost of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Sean Stackley, best known as Washington’s naval acquisition czar under the Obama administration, has become L3's corporate senior vice president and president of Communications & Networked.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Saudi Arabia currently has 10 MH-60Rs on order through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Rockwell Collins is promoting a digital upgrade of the HGS-6000 Head-up Guidance System on the C-130J Super Hercules that will combine enhanced and synthetic vision for U.S. Air Force missions as well as for firefighting operations.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
Marks the 155th and final mission for the booster that helped put the U.S. back into the space business after the 1986 Challenger accident.
Space

LEONARDO DRS won a contract to develop a deployable flight recorder technology for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Quanterion Solutions Inc. a $31.6 million contract for the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center basic center of operations.

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By Steve Trimble
The fixed-price contract worth up to $7.2 billion came to Lockheed by default after Boeing and Northrop Grumman dropped out of the competition earlier this year.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill conference report allots the Pentagon $1.7 billion for 16 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Detecting and tracking “dark ships” suspected of smuggling or illegal fishing will be the first application for a radio frequency (RF)-based data stream collected by a new cluster of commercial cubesats scheduled for launch by the end of November
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The Sikorsky Boeing team hopes to fly the SB-1 Defiant advanced rotorcraft demonstrator before year’s end.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The release of the U.S. Army’s broad agency announcement for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competitive prototyping program is imminent, an industry executive says.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is implementing a series of corrective measures to reduce the number of physiological events that pilots experience while flying the T-6 Texan.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
A belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business to Safran has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, the chief executive of the latter told analysts recently.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Royal Thai Air Force has awarded Indra a contract to supply Lanza 3D long-range radars and an air defense command-and-control system.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has unveiled two ground-based, counter-unmanned aircraft systems that it claims performed “successfully” in Syria.
Defense and Space

India’s state-run space agency will launch two British satellites—NovaSAR and S1-4—on Sept. 16.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The French ministry of the armed forces has launched a defense industry-wide effort to get out of the habit of using U.S. components subject to ITAR.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
An operational MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system suffered damage Sept. 12 after landing with retracted gear on a U.S. Navy base in California, the Navy says.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
South Korea’s three-month-old decision to buy six Boeing P-8As can move forward after the U.S. Congress approved the arms export on Sept. 13.
Defense and Space