Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Dynetics is to produce up to 1,000 GBU-69/B Small Glide Munitions a year for the USSOCOM in a massive ramp-up in production of the company-developed weapon.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
From surviving in contested airspace to supplying remote areas, interest in unmanned transport and tanker aircraft is growing.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Daher is developing ISR variants of its TBM 910 and TBM 930 single turboprops as lower-cost alternatives to twin-turboprop and twin-jet aircraft.
Defense and Space

India’s national space agency has gotten the go-ahead to develop a semi-cryogenic engine capable of powering the country’s heaviest rocket.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
In a recent survey of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s workforce, the words most often used to describe the organization were “bureaucratic” and “slow.”
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
Israel is investing heavily in the development of a new, highly efficient air-to-ground standoff missile that can be used on the F-35I.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
An overly cautious FAA should change its approach to assessing safety risk when it considers unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, a new study says.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Italy’s Elettronica and Spain’s Indra have partnered to develop a directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system for aircraft.
Defense and Space

RAYTHEON has $49.4m U.S. Air Force contract for Qatar Air and Missile Defense Operation Center.

Harris has delivered the fifth of 10 navigation payloads to Lockheed Martin under its contract for GPS III satellites.

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A panel of government and law enforcement officials expressed grave concern to lawmakers about the threat posed by terrorists and criminals operating unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and called on Congress to provide them with more authority and resources to counter malicious drones.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The helicopter, upgraded by Northrop and partner Science and Engineering Services (SES), has entered flight testing in Huntsville, Alabama, and the first modified AH-1Fs have been shipped to Jordan for weapons testing and final acceptance.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Investment firm New Mountain Capital has bought a stake in MAG Aerospace, a Fairfax, Virginia, provider of airborne ISR services to government.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
New Horizons is in good health and preparing for a flyby of the oddly shaped Kuiper Belt object MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, that is expected to begin in late August.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The launch of Europe's Aeolus wind measurement satellite is now scheduled for Aug. 21 after 11 years of delay.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Just as the first quadcopter drones were for intended hobbyists, the first electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft to hit the market is designed for recreational use.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Juno mission at Jupiter has been extended until 2022 to enable scientists to achieve their prime mission goals despite a technical issue that has slowed science gathering.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Montana-based Bridger Aerospace will supply unmanned aircraft system support for wildfire management to the Interior Dept. on a “call when needed” basis.

THALES, BAE SYSTEMS and CGI have teamed to bid for the second phase of the UK Royal Navy’s Maritime Electronic Warfare Program (MEWP).

U.S., Russian and European astronauts are en route to an early June 8 docking with the International Space Station.

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By Guy Norris
Orbital ATK is upgrading the Pegasus XL rocket to drive down costs and has acquired a second airworthy Lockheed L-1011 as a long-term spares source.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The FAA named 19 U.S. penitentiaries and 10 Coast Guard bases and facilities at which drone flights will be prohibited from the ground to 400 ft. above each site, effective June 20.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The majority of the money—around €9.7 billion—will be spent on the Galileo navigation system and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) constellation.
Defense and Space