Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Jay Menon
India has again test-fired its indigenous Agni-V long-range, surface-to-surface ballistic missile.
Defense and Space

CAE purchased 45% of shares in PELESYS (aviation training systems/courseware).

Israel’s UVision has demonstrated an extended-range loitering munition, using a moving vehicle and a human in various scenarios to show the system’s ability to track, lock on and precisely strike a target as well as its ability to abort the mission.

Lord Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $27,067,123 five-year firm-fixed-price, long-term contract for repair of three items used on the V-22 aircraft.

By Irene Klotz
British startup Effective Space Solutions will launch two robotic spacecraft called Space Drones in 2020 to service two comm sats for an undisclosed operator.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
British Engineering and aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is considering spinning off its money losing Commercial Marine business.
Defense and Space

The upcoming launch of the USAF's fourth Sbirs missile warning satellite will feature a launch vehicle deorbiting maneuver designed to limit space junk.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Unexpected severe vibrations generated during OEI flight trials of Bell’s 525 helicopter caused the fatal crash of the first prototype, the NTSB has concluded.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The French ministry of interior has ordered six Q400 multirole airtankers from firefighting aircraft specialist Conair.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The U.S. government and private sector are being drawn closer together in what could become a new “golden age” of space, according to one 30-year industry veteran.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Navy would be with re-equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles under the Trump administration’s new nuclear strategy.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
GE Chairman and CEO John Flannery says he is reconsidering how to structure the industrial giant.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus CEO Tom Enders has warned of the dangers of increasing protectionism that could emerge from Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain is preparing to retire its last operational Westland Lynx helicopters, ending a 40-year career with the Army Air Corps and Royal Navy.
Defense and Space

An influential GOP congressman expects the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy will provide a blueprint to guide congressional spending decisions.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The French Air Force is planning on a gradual entry into service of the four Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules military transports it has begun receiving.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The development of a device designed to detect microbial contamination of drinking water aboard the ISS more quickly than its existing system is proceeding.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has been ordered to pay €104 million ($127 million) over a long-running commercial dispute over the sale of missiles to equip Taiwan’s fleet of Dassault Mirage 2000s.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA's Inspector General is critical of the nonprofit organization assigned responsibility for managing research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the International Space Station.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 13th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station splashed down under parachute in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California on Jan. 13.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India’s state-run military aircraft maker HAL is working with Safran Helicopter Engines to establish a unit in Goa for servicing military helicopter engines.
Defense and Space

SIKORSKY has $193.9m U.S. Army foreign military sales contract for eight Saudi Arabian National Guard and nine Royal Saudi Land Forces Airborne Special Security Forces UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters.

Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s longest-serving acting administrator and a force in advancing spacecraft propulsion, will receive the 2018 National Space Trophy in April. Lightfoot, who has served as the agency’s top executive since January 2017, joined NASA in 1989 at Marshall Space Flight Center, where he started his career as a test engineer and program manager.

In observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the U.S., Aerospace DAILY will not be published on Tuesday, Jan. 16.

View the U.S. Defense Department Spending: Maritime Aircraft: FY16-FY18 ($K) in PDF format.