Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Garrett Reim
Kawasaki Motors has made a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount in VoltAero, a hybrid-electric aircraft developer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Poland is to invest in airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft from Sweden, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has revealed.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The demonstration flight was intended to give Peruvian military officials a sense of the KC-390 and the capabilities of Brazil’s defense industry.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
Dueling AESA options for the F/A-50 show how far the technology has come in a short amount of time, thanks to the advent of gallium nitride semiconductors.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Ben Goldstein
UK electric air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace has signed an agreement with Kakao Mobility of South Korea for 50 preorders of its VX4 eVTOL vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Baltic States of Estonia and Latvia have selected the German IRIS-T SLM for a joint medium-range ground-based air defense requirement.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space’s second, four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station docked to the space-facing port on the Harmony module on Monday.
Budget, Policy & Operations

BOEING gets presidential aircraft contract mod... ELBIT supplying artillery rocket systmes to Dutch army... LOCKHEED gets JASSM award...
Aerospace and Defense 2021

By Graham Warwick
Overair is assembling the first uncrewed full-scale demonstrator for its Butterfly tiltrotor electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Doroni Aerospace has launched a Series A offering, aiming to raise $20-30 million to develop its H1 Hummingbird two-seat personal eVTOL vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
SWISSto12 has received a contract to build three small geostationary communications satellites for Inmarsat.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is designing its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program—uncrewed systems that will fly alongside future fighters—to be fielded in increments.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble
President Joe Biden said May 19 that the U.S. supports an international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s and other fourth-generation fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The NASA-funded Capstone has completed its six-month primary mission in orbit around the Moon with a successful autonomous navigation demonstration.
Space

By Graham Warwick
NASA’s electrified aircraft propulsion flight demonstration programs face cost overruns and schedule delays, the agency’s inspector general says.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Science Applications International has appointed Toni Townes-Whitley as its next CEO.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The acquisition of the cruise missile helps Australia recover some of the long range striking power that the RAAF lost when the F-111Cs retired in 2011.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace and defense metals specialist IBC Advanced Alloys warned on May 18 that it faced a debt payment crunch.
Supply Chain

By Irene Klotz
A hydrogen leak during qualification testing of a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket upper stage was not due to a problem with the test stand.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract next year for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Boeing T-7A could receive a limited military flight release this summer, but faces the risk of new schedule delays as software and escape concerns linger.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
The MTH is a conceptual component of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Greece’s new International Pilot Training Center has received its first M-346 jet trainers from Leonardo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program has established airspace innovation and battery energy storage teams.
Aircraft & Propulsion