Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Federal hardware and services provider Harris is facing many challenges these days, but the company increasingly has one thing going for it: classified businesses.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Federal hardware and services provider Harris is facing many challenges these days, but the company increasingly has one thing going for it: classified businesses.
Defense and Space

CFM INTERNATIONAL INC. has $1.9b Defense Logistics Agency contract for F108 replenishment spare parts through Oct. 31, 2024.

Dutch national aerospace laboratory NLR has wind-tunnel tested South Korea’s indigenous Light Attack Helicopter.

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By Molly McMillin
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has joined NASA’s Advanced Composite Consortium.

Lockheed Martin is working with the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the stealth coating that allows the F-22 to fly undetected in enemy airspace.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Norwegian air accident investigators probing the loss of a CHC-operated Airbus H225 helicopter last April have begun focusing their attention on the certification aspects of the helicopter’s gearbox.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Bye Aerospace expects to fly the battery-electric Sun Flyer two-seat trainer in the first quarter and the solar-electric StartoAirNet optionally piloted aircraft in the second quarter.

By Graham Warwick
The new CEO of startup XTI Aircraft says raising financing to advance development of the TriFan 600 vertical-takeoff-and-landing business aircraft is his first priority.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
With Houston hosting the Super Bowl for the third time, NASA’s Johnson Space Center is taking the opportunity to showcase the agency’s Mars exploration ambitions to visiting football fans.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
The South Korean navy will assign its eight Leonardo AW159 Wildcat helicopters to Incheon-class frigates.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has increased its defense budget to 2.74 trillion rupees ($40.8 billion) for the fiscal year beginning April 1, an increase of about 6% over the previous year.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
A UK-developed large quadrotor that can fly unmanned or manned is being flight tested by the U.S. Army as it develops requirements for a future joint tactical aerial resupply vehicle (JTARV).
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Russia’s TsAGI central aerohydrodynamic institute has conducted low-speed wind tunnel testing of an integrated wing/body concept for a heavy transport aircraft.
Defense and Space

BAE SYSTEMS will provide its LiteHUD head-up display for Textron AirLand’s multi-mission Scorpion jet.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ LightningStrike hybrid-electric, high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing flight demonstrator has been officially designated the XV-24A.

By Mark Carreau
Analysis of a meteorite of Martian origin confirms the now-cold and desert-like Red Planet was volcanically active for at least 2 billion years, a research effort shows.
Defense and Space

Defense Secretary James Mattis has directed his deputy to develop a supplemental budget request for fiscal 2017 that increases the Pentagon’s topline funding as well as long-term plans to build a “more lethal” force.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Researchers are offering a preview of how Scott Kelly fared medically after his U.S. record-setting 340 days in space as a NASA crewmember aboard the International Space Station in 2015-16.
Space

The U.S. Marine Corps’ top aviator says he believes a side-by-side review of the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 will validate the need for the fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Continued softness in the business jet and other aerospace and defense markets made for uninspiring—but unalarming—earnings results at major parts and services provider Honeywell, executives and analysts said Jan. 27.
Business Aviation

Northrop Grumman has bowed out of the competition for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation training aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army and Air Force are awarding contracts to address an urgent operational need for counter-UAS systems.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Bell is planning to end production of its Model 206L LongRanger single-engine light helicopter later this year.
Defense and Space