Defense and Space

TT ELECTRONICS, UK has acquired Southern California-based aerospace and defense power electronics business unit of EXCELITAS TECHNOLOGIES, MA.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has claimed its first discovery of an Earth-like world in the habitable zone of a neighboring star.

The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) sat effort to miniaturize a spacecraft for extrasolar planet detection, has gone quiet.

SpaceX’s 19th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission spacecraft returned to Earth Jan. 7.

Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the third prototype of its T625 Gokbey twin-engine medium helo as it begins to accelerate the aircraft’s flight-test program.

SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.

Ukraine has begun taking delivery of H125 single-engine light helicopters from Airbus.

RAYTHEON has $11.7m U.S. Air Force study contract for Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System.

NATO alliance wants AFSC ready for 2035 when its Boeing E-3 Sentries are finally retired.

The aviation industry needs a robust, responsible Boeing.

The U.S. military must confront climate change head-on by adapting to extreme weather and developing resiliency.

BAE Systems Ship Repair, Norfolk, Virginia, has been awarded a $175,047,658 firm-fixed-price contract for the execution of USS Vicksburg (CG 69) fiscal 2020 modernization period (MODPRD).

Back from its year-end recess, the U.S. House this week is expected to introduce a War Powers Resolution to limit President Trump’s military options concerning Iran.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $1.9b US DOD contract to provide F-35 operations support and sustainment in 2020.

As new details about a next-generation engine for Russia’s premier Su-57 fighter emerge, new concerns are apparent as well.

Aerospace and defense Tier 1 giant Safran has sold off software and systems engineering unit Base2 Solutions.

The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.9 billion contract on Jan. 6 to maintain the global Lightning II fleet, support training and expand capacity for producing spares and repairing components.

The Alliance Ground System program has faced off political, programmatic, legal and technical hurdles.

U.S. MDA is focused on intercepting shorter-range threats.

Industry Events Calendar

ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES signed agreement with Israeli government to develop/build Dror 1 national communications satellite.

The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.

NATO has taken the first steps toward replacing its fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platforms.

A study provides new details on a health threat to astronauts: venous thrombosis.

Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.