Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 30, 2018

Japan has taken an initial step toward replacing its Bell AH-1S Cobra helicopters, seeking information from prospective suppliers....More

India has concluded commercial negotiations with Russia to purchase five S-400 Surface-to-Air Missile systems despite serious U.S. concerns....More

A multi-agency/contractor fault tree investigation is probing the degraded cooling performance of the Advanced Baseline Imager camera aboard NOAA's newest weather satellite....More

NASA is exercising an option for production of the third and fourth JPSS satellites for the NOAA by Orbital ATK, of Dulles, Virginia, through 2026....More

Astronaut Alan Bean, who became the fourth person to walk on the moon during Apollo 12 and later flew on a record-breaking mission to the Skylab space station has died at age 86....More

Canada has chosen to contract with Leonardo to undertake a midlife update for its CH-149 Cormorant fleet of search and rescue (SAR) helicopters....More

The introduction of a fully redundant precision landing mode in the Super Hornet and Growler should eliminate the need for stick-and-throttle carrier landings....More

BOEING has $25.7m U.S. Army contract for eight CH-47F new-build helicopters for Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command....More

Airbus has created a new Urban Air Mobility (UAM) unit and opened itself to collaboration with other manufacturers....More

The chairman and CEO of the parent company of iconic French business aircraft and fighter jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation died May 28 after suffering heart failure at his office in Paris....More

Total Technology, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (W15QKN-18-D-0073); Pioneering Decisive Solutions, California, Maryland (W15QKN-18-D-0078); Logisys Technical Services, Huntsville, Alabama (W15QKN-18-D-0077), will compete for each order of the $125,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for automated test system testing, and diagnostics and net-centric support services....More