Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

L3 Technologies has acquired Applied Defense Solutions, an aerospace engineering, software development and space situational awareness company for $50 million.

Kratos displayed the first three of its high-speed, highly maneuverable subsonic aerial targets at its California production facility July 11.

Cadence Aerospace will acquire Wichita-based Perfekta.

Cadence Aerospace will acquire Wichita-based Perfekta.

The Boeing-manufactured F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for Kuwait will be a “crossover” of Block III with new features like an advanced cockpit system.

The U.S. State Department cleared two potential sales to the United Kingdom and Denmark for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (Amraams).

The $58.3 million sale of a British aerospace supplier to a Chinese owner has been called off after the UK government intervened on national security grounds.

The DOD is setting up a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and tapping the Defense Innovation Board to engage with stakeholders with a goal of producing recommended principles.

PKL SERVICES INC. has $10.2m U.S. Air Force contract for Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15 maintenance and operations training.

On Tuesday in Washington Maj. Gen. William Cooley of the Air Force Research Lab and Tim Grayson, director of Darpa’s Strategic Technology Office, will discuss manned-unmanned aircraft teamin.

PKL Services Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $10,236,530 firm-fixed-price contract for military aircraft F15 SG maintenance and operations training.

CPI Aerostructures has signed a long-term contract with Honda Aircraft Co. to build the noise-attenuating engine inlet for the HondaJet Elite business jet.

The U.S. Air Force’s low-cost unmanned strike aircraft demonstrator, the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie, is scheduled to fly this fall.

Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR-22 engine, built from spare space shuttle main engine components, has been test-fired 10 times in less than 10 days.

The Cygnus resupply capsule used its 100-lb. thruster July 10 to carry out a 50-sec. orbit-raising maneuver of the International Space Station.

Israel’s first lunar lander is scheduled to be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in December.

The Japanese defense ministry has penciled in the purchase of naval intelligence-gathering aircraft for the five-year defense program that will begin next year.

Russia’s Progress MS-09 cargo capsule successfully executed a two-orbit launch to docking with the International Space Station late July 9.

India’s space agency is looking at the possibility of a winged space plane.

Chinese space industry group Casc has test fired a space-launcher booster that it says has the greatest thrust of any solid-propellant motor in the country.

The Pentagon’s research and engineering arm is directing a Defense Science Board task force to study elements of a resilient space architecture.

FINLAND chose ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES’ Gabriel anti-ship missile system to replace MT085M systems reaching end-of-life cycle in the 2020s.

The Israeli Air Force is preparing a crew to operate the Boeing 767 aircraft that will carry the nation’s president and prime minister when it is delivered in early 2019.

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Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Co., a tunneling business, spent last weekend repurposing a Falcon 9 liquid oxygen transfer tube into the hull of a 31-cm sub that could be used in the ongoing rescue of a boys’ soccer team.