Business & GAAirbus Sees Mixed Segment Results While Launching New Business Jet as Pandemic Persists Airbus published its financial and operational results through the first nine months of 2020, showing mixed performance across various market segments status including their defense division’s increase in new orders, the launch…
CommercialBoeing Projects Hardship for Commercial and Stability for Defense The 2020 Boeing Market Outlook (BMO) and 2020 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) was released projecting continued challenges for the commercial aviation and service markets and stability for the global defense and government…
Business & GA5G Deployment Important for Urban Air Mobility, Defense Communications, Wind River Says The deployment of 5G networks to enable rapid, high-bandwidth communications will be important for urban air mobility and defense, according to a new Wind River report, Solving 5G's Biggest Challenges for Communications…
MilitaryPortugal to Acquire Five Embraer KC-390s Portugal is set to acquire five Embraer KC-390s and a KC-390 simulator, with the first delivery planned for early 2023. The KC-390s will be equipped with a fully interactive Collins Aerospace Pro…
MilitarySenate Panel Supports More F-35s Than Trump Requested at $675B The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel (SAC-D) approved a $675-billion fiscal year 2019 defense appropriations bill that would fund 89 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, 12 more than the Trump administration requested.…
MilitaryElbit's Half-Billion-Dollar IMI Systems Acquisition Gets Israel's Approval Elbit Systems has reached an agreement with the Israeli government for the tender of state shares related to the company’s pending $495 million acquisition of IMI Systems, which is also based in Israel.…
MilitaryF-35 Development Contract Pushed Back The U.S. Department of Defense plans to award a major follow-on development contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in June 2019, about 10 months later than previously planned, according to a…
MilitaryF-15 on the Cusp of Overdue Upgrade to Digital Defense System The Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS), which is intended to improve the ability of U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets to detect and counter air and ground threats, is on track…
MilitaryUS Navy Sinks Unmanned Systems Office, Rethinks Approach The U.S. Navy has disestablished the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems (DASN UxS) a mere two and a half years after standing it up in October 2015. Assistant…
MilitaryNew No-Drone Zones Hone DOD Counter-UAS Authority Responding to a request to enhance unmanned aircraft flight restrictions over military bases, the FAA recently made the airspace over three new U.S. Defense Department facilities no-drone zones and extended the restricted…