Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) says recent delays in releasing the request for proposals for the U.S. Air Force's Huey Replacement program are “such a disappointment” and further delay would be “irresponsible” considering the importance of the mission.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Vancouver-based space startup UrtheCast is to receive C$17.6 million ($13.2 million) in Canadian government support for development of the planned OptiSAR constellation.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
U.S. defense services providers look set to prosper under President Donald Trump’s new budget priorities, several financial analysts say.
Defense and Space

The contract provides $3.3 billion to Boeing in exchange for 244 remanufactured Echo-model aircraft and another 24 new-build AH-64Es for Saudi Arabia.
Defense and Space

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2017 supplemental budget, known in Washington as the “hard-power” skinny budget, would add billions of dollars to the U.S. Army’s aircraft and missile procurement accounts, providing new money for helicopters, UAVs, missiles and interceptors.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin is eyeing new U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force opportunities for high-power laser systems after demonstrating a 60-kw-class laser for delivery to the Army in the next few months.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Low-cost UAVs that can be launched in volleys to cooperate with each other and with manned aircraft, then be retrieved in midair and reused, have moved a step closer to becoming reality.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
A five-year development effort led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could soon produce one of the coldest places in the known universe, a man-made high-tech lab aboard the U.S. segment of the International Space Station.
Defense and Space

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $53.1m Missile Defense Agency contract for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology Risk Reduction (TRR) effort for a 36-month period.

An Indian air force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter crashed March 15 while on a routine training sortie.

The proposed investment in the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter signals the administration’s seriousness about moving quickly to modernize the service’s tactical fighter fleet beyond the stealthy F-35.
Defense and Space

Boeing is the big winner in President Trump’s supplemental budget request for fiscal 2017, with the White House requesting more than $3 billion for 24 additional U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and six more P-8 maritime patrol aircraft.
Defense and Space

Textron Aviation has officially decided that it cannot compete for the U.S. Air Force’s $16 billion next-generation training aircraft program with the company’s Scorpion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The Trump administration's $19.1 billion fiscal 2018 budget plan for NASA would prioritize deep-space missions but scrap the previous administration’s plan to capture an asteroid.
Defense and Space

The budget proposal lifts sequestration caps, invests in critical munitions to fight violent extremists, increases the number of U.S. Navy ships and funds additional U.S. Air Force F-35s.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
The South Korean navy has dropped a plan to buy and refurbish 16 Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, shifting its focus to the possibility of an order for new aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Martian surface is within reach of human explorers by the early to mid-2030s, and Martian orbit by 2026-28, provided funding is made available and some key technology decisions are reached soon, a panel says.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
OneWeb Satellites on March 16 kicked off construction of its proposed $85 million, high-volume satellite manufacturing factory in Exploration Park, Florida, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Defense and Space

Textron Aviation has officially decided that it cannot compete for the U.S. Air Force’s $16 billion next-generation training aircraft program with the company’s Scorpion.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Missile manufacturer MBDA had another strong year of orders in 2016 and plans more recruitments this year.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Britain and Japan will look at the possibility of jointly developing a fighter, probably for entry into service in the 2030s.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Russian Helicopters has begun work on the development of a light helicopter in the 1.6-metric ton (3,500 lb.) class, the company has revealed.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA, Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance have slipped the launch of Orbital’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station by three days to March 24, with the possibility of a one-day advance.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Singapore has declared its Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron unmanned aircraft fully operational, five years after the system’s delivery.
Defense and Space

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $64.7m U.S. Navy contract for work on the integrated core processor to reduce constraints on F-35 production Lot 15.