Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Boeing has a new name for part of its drive to vertically integrate and become a more important player in avionics, and it is hiring Americans.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.
Program Management

By Mark Carreau
NASA has enlisted 13 companies, under agreements totaling an estimated $11 million, for advice on growing a U.S. industrial presence in low Earth orbit.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Thailand has contracted Saab to upgrade the country’s national command and control system for air defense, which is based on the company’s 9AIR product.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
A second Bombardier Global 6000 business jet modified for electronic and signals-intelligence-gathering missions has made its first post-conversion flight.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Spire has chosen Arianespace to launch “a significant number” of its cubesats on a Vega rocket in 2019.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus’ Zephyr S high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) has broken its flight time record by flying nonstop for almost 26 days.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
In the past four years, companies have worked on 101 different small sat launchers, with 34 in development today, a Northrop Grumman industry survey says.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The DOD has renamed its innovation unit that focuses on attracting nontraditional companies to work on artificial intel, autonomy, human systems, info tech and space.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected six U.S.-led enterprises to advance the development of 10 promising new space technologies on three broad fronts.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Fresh off a string of business unit divestitures, Triumph Group expects to slice off several more units this quarter.
Defense and Space

RAYTHEON has $13.1m U.S. Air Force contract for Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam) technical support.

The Pentagon is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government- and non-government-issued devices, applications and services.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a precision tracking demonstration with a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper in the Pacific late Aug. 8, an official said.
Air Dominance

By Lee Hudson
The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
A senior DOD official says a space-based interceptor to go after ballistic missiles is a “relatively easy technological challenge."
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Aerojet Rocketdyne expects to win its “fair share” of a potentially $5-6 billion amount of propulsion work for the DOD's GBSD program, a top executive says.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is assessing how Lockheed Martin’s F-35 can be used to deliver kinetic weapons to aid with boost phase intercept.
Air Dominance

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab on Aug. 7 added 10 missions to its growing flight manifest for Electron, a small-satellite launcher.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Inadequate funding is exacerbating the low serviceability of the Sukhoi Su-30MKM of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), the head of the service said.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
TransDigm has signed a new master contract agreement with leading customer Boeing.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The director of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office is following through on his promise to disrupt the way the military does business in space.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
As many as six new aviation companies will be invited to pitch their businesses to potential investors, partners and others at a San Francisco conference.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $22.3m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead material and work to support fiscal 2019 Trident II missile production schedule.

This week the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Utah State University’s 32nd annual Smallsat conference is underway in Logan, Utah.