Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Startup Sabrewing Aircraft is to re-engine its Rhaegal-A turbo-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft with Safran Helicopter Engines’ Ardiden 3 turboshaft before the technology demonstrator’s first flight, planned later this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
Boeing expects to go into production no later than the mid-2020s with the Airpower Teaming System, a loyal wingman drone it is developing in Australia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

BOEING AUSTRALIA rolled out first Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft prototype for RAAF; aircraft also serves as foundation for Boeing Airpower Teaming
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
MQ-25 clears system design review; U.S. approves FMS to Philippines; Northrop, Raytheon’s NGI team; defense industrial base reopenings.
Defense and Space

News in brief
Defense and Space

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The loyal-wingman program with the Royal Australian Air Force is to culminate in an operational demonstration of Boeing’s ATS.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Leidos and Paramount Group USA have teamed up to offer a U.S.-built derivative of a South African design for a low-cost, light attack aircraft for U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) Armed Overwatch program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
After arriving on four trucks from a U.S. Air Force Boneyard in Arizona, a retired B-1 Bomber was unloaded on May 4 here, where it will be disassembled, scanned and reassembled virtually under a six-year project with Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s defense electronics company Havelsan has teamed up with Turkish Aerospace to support the development of software, training and maintenance systems for Ankara’s future TF-X indigenous fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps has accepted delivery of the first CH-53K King Stallion flight simulator at Marine Corps Air Station New River in North Carolina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon intends to request additional stimulus funding from Congress to support the defense industrial base in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force will host a “virtual industry day” for the Advanced Battle Management System on May 13, via the medium of the Zoom videoconferencing platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace is cutting jobs throughout its business operations, including nearly 700 at its Savannah, Georgia headquarters, in response to the impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is close—perhaps within days—of striking a deal with Russia for the purchase of another seat on a Soyuz launch to assure a continuing U.S. presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Space

By Steve Trimble
Ask the Editors: The Pentagon’s hypersonic prototypes rely on a large number of small, boutique companies with highly specialized skills.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Avic Guizhou is developing what may be a shipboard version of its JL-9G supersonic trainer intended for use on Chinese aircraft carriers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
LYON, France—Arianespace is planning on resuming operations with a Vega launch in mid-June as activity at Europe’s space center in Kourou, French Guiana, gradually restarts after being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense and Space

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense and Space

Calendar of upcoming events of interest.
Defense and Space

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense and Space

Lockheed Martin has won a $6.07 billion U.S. Army contract to produce Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.8 billion contract to manufacture 18 additional RS-25 engines to support Space Launch System flights to the Moon.
Space

By Lee Hudson
As the Pentagon continues to invest in equipment to combat the novel coronavirus, the agency awarded a $75.5 million contract to Puritan Medical Products to double its monthly output of 20 million to 40 million swabs to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations