Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia is retrofitting and upgrading five aging Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules transport aircraft that have been in service since the 1960s.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Aero engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has appointed a new chief operating officer following a shakeup of senior management announced last December.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it plans to fly the first prototype of the An-132D light airlifter before year’s end.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Thales and satellite operator SES have signed two intertwined agreements to offer a new connectivity service over the Americas, claiming “optic fiber-like” speed.
Defense and Space

ARIANESPACE has European Space Agency contract to launch ADM-Aeolus satellite.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. James Holmes has been nominated as the next chief of Air Combat Command.

View the Forecast Friday: Maritime Aircraft MRO Demand by OEM: 2016-2025 ($) chart in PDF format.

U.S. Air Force Space Command is exploring how to defend its current space assets and make new ones more responsive, operationally focused, disaggregated and survivable.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force is about 500 fighter pilots short of its total requirement.
Defense and Space

Blue Origin will test an escape system next month on its New Shepard rocket that can propel the crew capsule to safety if the booster has a problem, the company says.
Defense and Space

A curious device designed to guide U.S. air-to-ground munitions when satellite navigation aides are being disrupted will soon enter flight testing on the Boeing GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India-based Tata Advanced Materials Ltd (TAML) has been contracted by Boeing to provide composite interior closeout panels for the P-8 aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The $1 billion probe's long journey will place it at the 1,600-ft.-wide asteroid Bennu in August 2018.
Space

GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. completed integration of Certifiable Predator B UAV at company’s Poway, CA, production facility.

Sierra Nevada is losing its space systems unit leader to a want-to-be-bigger defense provider.

The U.S. Navy can move ahead with low-rate production of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton after the $14 billion maritime surveillance UAV program cleared an acquisition hurdle known as Milestone C.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
First flight of the spaceplane, named VSS Unity, is expected within days.
Defense and Space

Ten months after achieving first flight of the CH-53K, Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky has delivered and flown all four aircraft required for developmental test.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Airbus Group and crowdsourced design specialist Local Motors have launched the second phase of a collaboration on cargo-delivery unmanned aircraft systems.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
TransDigm Group is continuing its supply chain roll up and said Sept. 6 it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Young and Franklin and its subsidiaries, including Tactair Fluid Controls, for $260 million in cash.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $132.6 million contract to build a pair of KC-130Js Hercules tankers for the French air force.
Defense and Space

Donald Trump said Sept. 7 that he wants to build a U.S. Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft.But there is a problem with Trump’s proposal.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s efforts to develop its Orion crewed spacecraft are following a course punctuated by safety, cost and schedule risks, the agency’s inspector general says.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the country’s latest weather satellite, Insat-3DR, on Sept. 8.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—European missile manufacturer MBDA has firmed up an order for a coastal missile system for Qatar. Qatari officials signed a deal in Doha on Sept. 1 for a vehicle-launched version of the Marte ER and Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles following a memorandum of understanding for the system that was signed at the Dimdex defense show in March.