Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Bradley Perrett
Early Japanese F-35s are not meeting targets for local content, the government’s Board of Audit says.
Defense and Space

THALES is opening metal 3D printing center of excellence in Casablanca, Morocco.

France’s Thales on Sept. 12 announced the closing of a deal to buy Guavus, a Silicon Valley company specializing in Big Data analytics.

Boeing does not see the need for manned, radar-carrying battle management aircraft such as the E-8C J-Stars and E-3 AWACS going away.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
Science is not the only legacy from Cassini’s 13-year exploration of Saturn.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The jury is still out on what business model and network architecture may thrive in the satellite telecommunications market in the near future.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center will remain closed at least through Thursday while a damage assessment team continues inspections to determine Hurricane Irma’s toll.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The third quarter of 2017 was not kind to Passur Aerospace, with the business intelligence, predictive analytics and big data company recently announcing a 13% drop in year-over revenue.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
L3 Technologies has bought Adaptive Methods, a systems engineering company specializing in undersea and antisubmarine warfare services for the U.S. military.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Contrary to previous concerns, astronauts assigned to long-running missions may not have to worry about anemia, a study shows.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
Work on India’s first lunar lander is almost complete as the Indian space agency targets March 2018 for its launch as part of the country’s second lunar exploration mission.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Ducommun has completed the acquisition of the corporate parent of Lightning Diversion Systems, a provider of lightning protection systems across the aerospace and defense industry.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor specializing in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has succeeded in its acquisition of engineering services group CDI.
Defense and Space

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $25.9m U.S. Air Force contract for F-22 sustainment activities.

On Friday NASA’s Cassini probe will bring its 13-year exploration of Saturn to a fiery close.

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $104,955,829 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract.

By Jen DiMascio
Less than a year after the Canadian government started negotiating with Boeing to buy 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets, the U.S. State Department let Congress know on Sept. 11 it had approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of the aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo says the AW149, a military spinoff of its AW189 commercial offering, would make an ideal replacement for the Puma if the type is retired at its current out-of-service date of 2025.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force’s largest nuclear cruise missile program since the Cold War can proceed unencumbered, with Boeing deciding not to protest the service’s Aug. 23 awards to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
ShowNews

By Guy Norris
Satellite developer Cloud Constellation has formally selected Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket to deploy the first 12 spacecraft forming its initial SpaceBelt constellation of space-based cloud storage data centers.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Senate Democrats want to beef up so-called Buy American laws and regulations.
ShowNews

Just months before the U.S. Air Force is slated to choose an industry team to begin developing a new aircraft to replace its existing battlefield command-and-control and surveillance fleet, the service appears to be considering scrapping the program altogether.
ShowNews

Sierra Nevada Corp. has filed a bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s cancellation of the Fixed-wing Utility Aircraft competition.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia is starting upgrades on nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs ordered in 1986.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
British concept work into rotary-wing unmanned air systems could result in the development of a production platform for use by the British Army and Royal Navy, Leonardo officials say.
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