Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

British small-cap defense supplier Ultra Electronics saw its stock price climb almost 22% on Jan. 11.

What does it take in 2018 to make a quadcopter stand out as an aircraft worth writing about?

Japan wants its two planned Aegis Ashore batteries to become operational as quickly as possible, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says.

CFOSat, set to lift off from China this year, will provide a deeper understanding of how the ocean works and its role in curbing climate change.

Spatial disorientation has been determined as the cause of the fatal crash of a Royal Thai Air Force Saab JAS 39C Gripen a year ago.

Raytheon is warning of a Tomahawk cruise missile production gap if more orders aren't forthcoming.

Canada charges that Washington’s anti-dumping and countervailing-duties measures are not compliant with international law under the trade group.

LORD CO. has $27m U.S. Navy contract for V-22 item repair.

A U.S. startup developing an eVTOL aircraft using the channel wing configuration pioneered in the 1950s by Willard Custer has flown a small-scale model of its concept.

The JWST’s primary mirror and science instrument package are ready to depart NASA’s JSC for integration with the spacecraft bus and sunshield.

Boeing HorizonX has flown a prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned cargo aircraft.

NASA needs to reassess certain health risks to astronauts on long-duration space missions, according to a National Academies of Sciences (NAS) panel.

By swapping Bushmasters for e-blasters, BAE Systems wants to bring its high-power microwave (HPM) energy technology to the high seas.

Global aviation aftermarket services provider AAR says Chairman/CEO David Storch will retire as chief executive and President/COO John Holmes will become CEO.

The long-expected Japanese acquisition of the Raytheon SM-3 Block 2A ballistic-missile interceptor has begun.

Two former executives of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo have been acquitted in a corruption case.

Airbus has rolled out the first complete A330-based BelugaXL transport aircraft airframe as the firm pushes for the first flight of the airlifter by mid-2018.

RAYTHEON has $10.2m U.S. Navy contract for incorporation of Block II plus engineering change proposal into 100 Lot 17 AIM-9X missiles.

This week Congress continues working to avert a government shutdown on Jan. 19 when the current stopgap spending measure expires.

Melwood Inc., Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was awarded an $18,552,775 firm-fixed-price contract for base operations at Fort Meade, Maryland.

A think tank report about DOD contract bid protests suggested new “traffic court”-like adjudication of low-level litigation and other minor reforms.

Arianespace is planning a record number of launches in 2018, as the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launchers are expected to total 14 flights.

A former Indonesian Air Force chief has been interviewed by the country’s anti-graft agency concerning irregularities in the purchase of a Leonardo AW101.

The joint venture developing a space-based surveillance system based on ADS-B aircraft position reporting has signed a data services agreement.

Devi Prasad Karnik, director of public relations at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), did not characterize the change in schedule as a delay. “The earlier stated launch date of January 10 was merely tentative,” he said.