Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Orbital ATK appears to be back on course financially, according to executive and analyst comments made in the wake of the midtier aerospace and defense provider’s 2016 reported results.
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The head of U.S. Strategic Command says there is no margin left in the nuclear modernization plans for the U.S.
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By Mark Carreau
The launching of the seventh Orbital ATK resupply mission to the ISS has been delayed to resolve a hydraulic issue with the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
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The VTOL UAVs feature adaptive control systems that allow for one continuous control mode independent of flight regime.
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By Bradley Perrett
The Avic Chendu J-20 stealth fighter has entered service with the Chinese air force, state media in Beijing say.
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By Molly McMillin
The historic B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” has received FAA approval of a new airworthiness certificate and will soon be able to tour.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (Jassm) completed two product verification flight tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Embraer’s Defense & Security segment posted net revenues of $318.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2016.

View the Forecast Friday: Trainer and Light Fighter In-Service Fleets (ISF) 2017-2026 chart in PDF format.

The Pentagon has delivered its supplemental budget request for fiscal 2017 to the White House for review, more than a week after the March 1 target. &
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The price of the U.S. Marine Corps’ new CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter has grown by 22% over initial estimates.
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The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy announced two major nuclear weapons milestones this week.
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By Kirby Harrison
Duncan Aviation recently delivered a refurbished 12-year-old Gulfstream G550, after breathing new life into an aircraft whose owner valued its dependability and wanted it to remain part of his fleet.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
Airbus and the Royal Australian Air Force have agreed to research possible improvements to the A330 MRTT tanker, focusing initially on automatic operation of the refueling boom.
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By Jay Menon
Ground tests are being conducted at different ISRO facilities in anticipation of India's first soft touchdown on the lunar surface.
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By Graham Warwick
Austrian Red Cross emergency response teams are to test a UAV-equipped communications vehicle developed by Jaguar Land Rover under Project Hero.
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KELLY AVIATION CENTER LP has $1b U.S. Air Force contract for KC-10 engine contractor logistic support through March 6, 2026.

On March 7 the House passed the “NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017,” which authorizes appropriations of $19.5 billion for the space agency in fiscal 2017

U.S. government regulators are being overwhelmed by a flood of license requests from entrepreneurial space companies featuring technologies and applications that are new to the commercial world, industry and government officials said.
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An altitude violation and lack of situational awareness during a demonstration flight at Dallas/Fort Worth marred what otherwise should have been the celebratory relaunch tour of a relatively unknown Sikorsky twin turboprop aircraft, the M28.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Kepler mission has archived for the science community new raw data from a sustained and just-concluded Trappist-1 observing campaign using the exoplanet-seeking space telescope.
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Lawmakers have given the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System program until March 2018 to wrap up pre-development studies and technology maturation work.
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By Graham Warwick
Leading consumer UAV manufacturer DJI is pushing for a higher weight limit of 2.2 kg (4.8 lb.) below which small unmanned aircraft systems are considered relatively harmless and do not require registration and are only lightly regulated.
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The HASC's proposed $640 billion military base budget for fiscal 2018 includes $11 billion for more Lockheed Martin F-35s and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets.
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By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has begun studies into a radically updated version of its best-selling AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter.
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