Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

RTCA has been asked by JAXA and Japanese industry to develop a requirements document for airborne lidar systems able to detect clear air turbulence.

Strength in the services segment and solid Boeing Commercial Aircraft volume helped Boeing offset nearly $420 million in KC-46 charges in the second quarter.

Radar-sounding instrumentation aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has detected what appears to be a stable body of briny water.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is completing work on its first dual-engine Centaur upper stage for an Atlas V rocket.

The USMC is looking for a delivery drone that can carry 25-500 lb. of cargo a minimum of 15 mi. and be ready for operational deployment as early as 2019-20.

Tensions on the Israeli-Syrian border reached another peak July 24 when an Israeli Air Force Patriot battery shot down a Syrian Air Force Su-24.

Malaysia has ordered an unknown number of shoulder-launched New Generation Anti-Tank Weapons (NLAWs) developed by Sweden and the UK.

The USAF has awarded Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. a contract to provide logistics support services for the Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard C-20 and C-37 fleets.

The Parker Solar Probe needs to launch by Aug. 19 to make a September 2018 rendezvous with Venus or face a year-long delay.

RAYTHEON has $64.4m U.S. Navy contract for Rolling Airframe Missile upgraded MK-31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program.

This Wednesday sees the scheduled launch of four Galileo navigation satellites aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

Leidos Innovations Corp., Gaithersburg, Maryland, is awarded $15,948,573 for cost-plus-fixed-fee order N6893618F0598 against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N68936-16-D-0018).

Congress is directing the U.S. Navy to modify the aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) to accommodate the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned refueling tanker.

Chris Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the final space shuttle mission in 2011, will fly aboard the first crewed flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station.

The Chilean Air Force has taken delivery of its first three of six new-build Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawks.

Britain has stood up its first multinational fighter squadron since World War II, in partnership with Qatar.

Raytheon is to ramp up production of AGM-176 Griffin mini-missiles for Socom as the U.S. rebuilds its depleted stockpiles of precision-guided munitions.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has narrowed the cause of a problem aboard the GOES-17 spacecraft.

Airbus is hoping to sign an export contract for its A400M airlifter by year’s end.

French space agency CNES has tapped Zodiac Data Systems for the development of an autonomous range safety system at its Kourou, French Guiana launch site.

Contractor CTSi completed flight testing in July of an integrated comm and navigation system that will allow UAS to fly in contested and GPS-denied areas.

Congress has decided not to force the U.S. Air Force to pursue Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization.

At the Farnborough Airshow, Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed Martin’s executive vice president for aeronautics, discussed offering a fifth-generation derivative aircraft to Japan, the fate of the F-16 and F-35 contingency plans.

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BOEING announced $98.4b in orders/commitments for commercial aircraft and $2.1b in commercial and defense services orders/agreements at Farnborough Airshow.