Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $459.2m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract for additional Lot 10 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors (one-shot devices) and associated production support efforts.

The head of Airbus Helicopters Inc. has accused Leonardo of holding its UH-72 Lakota production line “hostage” with a new lawsuit.

The first sign of a Russian invasion of the Baltic states would be widespread disruption of the electromagnetic spectrum, according to a new report.

Leadership of Casis, which manages the U.S. National Laboratory assets of the ISS, is defending the nonprofit’s potential to nurture a growing LEO economy.

An MQ-1B Predator crew’s failure to follow a checklist procedure for a lost link caused the crash of the UAV in 2016, the U.S. Air Force said.

North Korea’s infrastructure and mechanisms for launching missiles are getting more and more sophisticated, a U.S. Air Force general says.

Airports have upped pressure on European authorities to adopt safety and traffic management rules to ensure the safe use of drones in and around airports.

Leonardo is mulling further divestments in a bid to focus more on its core fixed-wing, rotary-wing and defense electronics businesses.

Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) mechanics are retiring faster than they can be replaced, according to a report by the Aviation Technician Education Council.

With an eye on electric propulsion, Boeing is Boeing is investing in advanced battery startup Cuberg.

The U.S. Navy will hire Raytheon Missile Systems to develop and deliver an improved version of the Air Force’s ADM-160 Miniature Air-Launched Decoy/Jammer (MALD-J).

RAYTHEON has $92m U.S. Army contract for engineering and technical services to support the Stinger Weapon System for the U.S., Poland and Taiwan.

NASA has tested wing folding in flight, a technique that could reduce tail size and therefore drag in subsonic aircraft.

Britain’s Royal Air Force is re-opening a radar station in the Shetland Islands to boost regional radar coverage in response to increased sorties flown by Russian long-range aviation.

The Pentagon’s leading contractor by sales plans to spend more on venture capital investments and workforce development, among other priorities.

View the U.S. Defense Department Spending: Nuclear Weapons Facilities: FY16-FY18($K) chart in PDF format.

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The U.S. Air Force finally is ready to welcome its second female F-35 pilot, now that enough aircraft have been upgraded with a new ejection seat designed to accommodate lightweight aircrew.

The small fleet of fixed-wing light attack aircraft is being provided to Beirut as U.S. military aid to support counterterrorism missions.

A scheduled Jan. 29 spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) originally scheduled by NASA to complete a complex series of upgrades to the station’s crucial robot arm has been postponed.

Boeing recently finished two weeks of flight testing as part of its wide-ranging modernization program for the fourth-generation aerial combat jet.

An Australian Boeing EA-18G Growler suffered serious damage during an exercise at the U.S. Nellis Air Force Base on Jan. 27 and may have to be replaced.

The first of 15 Hurkus-Bs being built for the Turkish Air Force for primary and advanced flight training took to the air from Konya air base on Jan. 29.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $12.5m U.S. Army contract for Hunter UAV engineering services.

The nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis) is holding a Jan. 30 public board meeting “to review the progress and future of research” aboard the orbiting facility.