Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 27, 2018

Volume 264, Issue 20

Programs

Apr 26, 2018

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“We’re all-in, if we can get that capability at the appropriate cost," the vice chief of the Army says of Future Vertical Lift....More

Apr 26, 2018

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UTAS Positions As Key Supplier For Future Vertical Lift

UTC Aerospace Systems is positioning itself as a key supplier for legacy U.S. Army helicopter upgrades and next-generation, clean-sheet designs....More

Apr 26, 2018

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House Would Block USAF’s Plan To Kill J-Stars

House lawmakers have moved to block the U.S. Air Force’s proposal to kill a planned replacement for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System....More

Apr 26, 2018

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Boeing Reveals Chinook Team For Germany

Boeing has teamed with ten German companies who will provide training, support and sustainment if the Chinook wins Germany’s STH heavy-lift helicopter competition....More

Apr 26, 2018

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Bids In For German Fighter Replacement

Up for grabs is a potential 90-aircraft order replacing on a one-for-one basis Germany’s Tornado IDS strike aircraft, and the smaller ECR electronic warfare version of the jet....More

Apr 26, 2018

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Bell V-280 Passes 140 Kt. On Way To ‘Cruise Mode’

Bell expects the V-280 Valor to meet all the key performance parameters set by the U.S. Army under the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator initiative “by the end of summer.”...More

Apr 26, 2018

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GE Finalizing Proposal For ITEP After Design Review

The winning engine will replace GE’s T700 in the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60M/V Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64E Apache, and also could power the next generation of clean-sheet military rotorcraft in the lightweight category of Future Vertical Lift....More

Apr 26, 2018

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Boeing KC-46 Completes FAA Certification Flight Testing

Boeing will now submit the resulting data and reports to the FAA for review....More

Apr 26, 2018

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NASA Auditor Flags Rising Cost of ISS Resupply Flights

Contracts to SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada for cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning in late 2019 are costing NASA more than twice what it paid under the first round of Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) awards, according to NASA's Inspector General....More

SpeedNews Defense & Space

Apr 27, 2018

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HARRIS CORP. has $44.7m U.S. Air Force contract for production of Counter Communication System Block 10.2....More

In Brief

Apr 27, 2018

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Eurockot Launches European Earth Watch Satellite

The Sentinel-3B satellite, part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program, was successfully launched April 25 by a Rockot vehicle from Plesetsk, Russia....More

Aviation Week Forecasts

Apr 27, 2018

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View the Aviation Week Forecasts: Western Military Maritime Aircraft Deliveries-Retirements By Family 2018-2027 chart in PDF format....More