Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
A Bell-led team has been selected to conduct a flight demonstration as part of NASA studies on integrating unmanned air systems into nonsegregated airspace.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has performed the first flight of its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Ten of the world’s largest metropolitan areas are in the running to become the first international test site of Uber’s proposed aerial ride-sharing program.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
PGZ could be involved in the support, sustainment and upgrade activity for the Apache if it is selected for Poland’s Kruk attack helicopter program.
Defense and Space

RAYTHEON has $281.9m U.S. Air Force contract for fiscal 2017/2018 DAS-4 targeting system production and upgrades.

The U.S. Air Force has a new lead for its Unexplained Physiological Event (UPE) Integration Team.

Raytheon Co., Burlington, Massachusetts, was awarded a $58,395,992 modification (P00068) to contract W9113M-13-C-0009 for surveillance system supply and support.

By Steve Trimble
So-called boost-glide systems most likely are the intended target of Darpa's Glide Breaker program, which seeks to demonstrate defenses against hypersonic weapons such as those being developed by China and Russia.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon is standing up a new office to help it figure out all the changes Congress has made to defense acquisition reforms, an assistant secretary of defense for acquisition enablers (ASD), according to a leading Pentagon acquisition official.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The DOD's acquisition chief says the U.S. must be transparent with the U.S. military services, international partners and foreign military sales customers on the F-35's steep sustainment cost.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The small hole in one of the Soyuz capsules parked at the ISS has been patched, but the mystery about what caused it is deepening daily on Earth.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) supports a Space Force that is a similar model to how the U.S. Marine Corps is organized.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA should develop an advanced space observatory capable of directly observing Earth-like extrasolar planets to seek evidence for life on a cosmic scale, a new study says.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Boeing’s KC-46 program received an STC from the FAA that verifies the platform’s refueling and mission avionics systems meet requirements.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. State Department has OK'd a possible foreign military sale to the Netherlands for the recapitalization of four Patriot Fire Units.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Indonesia air force, seeking greater regional collaboration, is considering an offer from Singapore to train pilots of unmanned aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
ArianeGroup is maintaining its goal of July 2020 for the first flight of the Ariane 6 launcher.
Defense and Space

India’s indigenously developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has performed its first dry-contact aerial refueling test.
Defense and Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian military plans to re-engine its two-seat Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter.
Defense and Space

Steve Trimble
An emerging architecture for a space-based sensor layer could use multiple types of observation tech to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles, U.S. defense officials say.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The German defense ministry has begun a radical restructuring of the country’s armed forces to better prepare it for modernization and an uptick in defense spending.
Defense and Space

Lockheed Martin Corp. soon could start making wings for its F-16 fighter in India with the help of local partner Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL).
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
Northrop Grumman has revealed the details of a production-ready new radar called Vanguard that its Mission Systems division launched about five years ago.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Air Force National Guard Brig. Gen. Edward Vaughn was selected by the active duty component to aggressively respond to pilots’ reporting of physiological events.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s age-defying Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover (MER) may have hit the wall. But maybe not.
Defense and Space