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Aviation Week Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, Monday, August The Business Daily of the Global Aerospace and Defense Industry Since 1963 August 24, 2020 Daily Briefs Inside: BRAZIL conducted its first flight of SAABa F-39 Gripen Aug. 20. FUNDING & POLICY Report Favors Commerce Office JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY has $50m U.S. Air To Lead Space Traffic Management PAGE 2 Force contract for air warfare systems. DOD Issues $7.3 Million To Aircraft Engine Repair, Satcom Companies PAGE 6 U.S. AIR FORCE’s Nellis AFB in Nevada opened Virtual Test and Training Center Aug. TECHNOLOGY 17. First missions in the VTTC scheduled for spring/summer 2021. Rolls-Royce, Reaction Engines Team For High Speed And Hybrids PAGE 3 HONEYWELL has $20.8m U.S. Air Force contract for repair of advanced display core Near Earth And Kaman processor and digital mapping service in F-15Es. Test Autonomy For K-Max Helicopter PAGE 5 OPERATIONS MANTECH SRS TECHNOLOGIES INC. has $16.3m U.S. Air Force contract for systems NASA To Probe Source Of Small engineering and integration support to the Space and Missile System Launch Enterprise. Space Station Pressure Loss PAGE 4 Aluminum Ties PROGRAMS Top UAE Diplomat: Israel Peace Agreement AMAG Austria Metall said it is acquiring Should Ease F-35 Deal a 70% share of the German company STEVE TRIMBLE, [email protected] Aircraft Philipp Gruppe to increase vertical alignment expertise in the machining of The Israel-United Arab Emirates (UAE) peace agreement should open the door for the aluminum and titanium for the aerospace U.S. government to approve a six-year-old request by Abu Dhabi to acquire Lockheed industry along with aluminum rolling, Martin F-35 fighters, the UAE’s top diplomat said. casting and recycling. AMAG said the The agreement, also known as the Abraham Accord, commits the UAE to normalize move would create value in the direction relations with Israel, but remains tentative until a final pact is signed. Once the deal is of mechanical processing, such as milling formalized, the U.S. should approve UAE’s long-standing request to receive access to and drilling, and the manufacturing of the F-35, Emirati Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash said in an interview with the Atlantic special components. The combination is Council on Aug. 20. expected to cut costs for closed-loop-re- “The UAE expects that its requirements will be accepted and we feel that with the cycling of plate-off cuts and chips from signing of this peace treaty in the coming weeks or months—whatever it is—any hurdle milling processes, as well as “improve” toward this [F-35 purchase] should no longer be there,” Gargash said. buy-to-fly-ratio, “optimize” logistics and A senior Emirati military official first expressed the country’s interest in an F-35 “considerably reduce” the carbon diox- acquisition during the Dubai Air Chiefs conference on the sidelines of the 2009 Dubai ide-footprint, the company says. F-35 DEAL, P. 2 AWIN.AVIATIONWEEK.COM/AEROSPACEDAILY 1 awin.aviationweek.com/aerospacedaily August 24, 2020 F-35 DEAL, From P. 1 Air Show. With a mural-sized picture of the F-35 as a backdrop, request for a classified briefing on the F-35. the Emirati officer told a crowd that included senior U.S. military But progress seemed to stall. Two years later, the U.S. officials that the UAE wanted a fifth-generation fighter. delegation to the air show declined to answer questions about The UAE formalized its interest in the F-35 around 2014, the UAE’s interest in the F-35. In the interim, the UAE decided Gargash said, presumably by filing a letter of request to the U.S. to invest in new upgrades for its Lockheed F-16 and Dassault State Department to initiate a Foreign Military Sales case. Mirage fighter fleets, extending their viability for at least anoth- “What I know very clearly is the UAE has been very happy with er decade. Although the U.S. position never was articulated, its F-16s, and it’s time to upgrade them,” Gargash said. “The F-35 Gargash implied the UAE’s publicly non-friendly relationship with has always been a target for the UAE’s defense requirements.” Israel, a major U.S. regional ally, was the source of the delayed The Obama administration made no move to publicly ac- approval for the F-35 request. knowledge the UAE’s interest in the F-35, but that changed after “I think the whole idea of a belligerent state of affairs [be- the Trump administration took over. During the 2017 air show, tween the UAE and Israel] will no longer be there,” Gargash said. top U.S. defense officials said they would consider the UAE’s “It’s part of the vistas that the deal will open.” FUNDING & POLICY Report Favors Commerce Office including 2,800 active satellites, and the number of vehicles To Lead Space Traffic Management launched increases each year. “As space becomes increasingly congested with ever-larger BILL CAREY, [email protected] numbers of domestic and foreign commercial companies, An independent panel that conducted a review commissioned researchers, universities and military/intelligence agencies by the U.S. Commerce Department has concluded its Office of launching orbital assets, the issue of space traffic manage- Space Commerce (OSC) is the best-suited federal agency to ment becomes ever more salient. With the risk of orbital oversee future space traffic management (STM). collisions growing astronomically, we face a crisis that must The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) be urgently addressed,” the NAPA report warns. evaluated the suitability of the OSC, FAA Office of Commer- A Senate amendment to fiscal 2020 appropriations leg- cial Space Transportation, NASA and Defense Department islation provided money to the Commerce Department to (DOD) to manage increasing space traffic and the risk of contract with the non-profit advisory academy to review STM orbital collisions. It released its report on Aug. 20. candidate agencies. The OSC is an office within the National “Following its evaluative criteria, the panel determines OSC Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the to be best suited to perform STM tasks within the federal gov- Commerce Department. ernment,” the report states. “[F]urthermore, its operating plan The academy’s report notes that neither the DOD nor NASA to move forward is not defined by a vision to build a large expressed an interest in performing space situational-aware- bureaucratic structure, but . places the highest priority on ness (SSA) and STM functions relating to commercial space serving as a trusted convener.” activity. NASA and the FAA, which regulates and manages The report calls on Congress to “enact, without delay, ap- commercial space launch and reentry activities, are “poten- propriations and any required authorities for OSC to build this tially attractive candidates” for the mission, it states. critical capability with requisite personnel, office infrastruc- The OSC’s concept of operations would be to “work collab- ture and authorities.” oratively with military, non-military, domestic and international The Commerce Department is seeking $15 million for STM actors in order to maintain a sustainable space domain in in its fiscal 2021 budget, an official told reporters following the which commercial and research activities may thrive,” the report’s release. NAPA estimates $153 million to $218 million report states. “OSC views its STM responsibilities principally will be needed to mount an STM capability over five years (fis- as a data-management function, rather than principally as a cal 2020-24). “In FY2025, it is anticipated that the STM task will task of managing space traffic.” be in a steady state of funding,” the report states. Michael Dominguez, a former senior Pentagon executive There are an estimated 500,000 objects already in orbit, REPORT, P. 3 2 awin.aviationweek.com/aerospacedaily August 24, 2020 TECHNOLOGY Rolls-Royce, Reaction Engines Systems, Rolls-Royce and Reaction also have been collaborating on hypersonic propulsion system work under a UK Ministry of Team For High Speed And Hybrids Defense contract announced in 2019 as part of technology work GUY NORRIS, [email protected] underway in parallel with the UK’s Project Tempest. Rolls-Royce and Reaction Engines have entered a new strategic “It’s probably the most significant commercial partnership partnership to develop high-speed aircraft propulsion systems deal that we’ve signed with a company and we are on the brink and study potential applications of Reaction’s heat exchanger of commercializing this technology,” Reaction CEO Mark Thom- technology for next-generation civil engines and hybrid-electric as says. Speaking to Aviation Week, he adds that “the real intent propulsion systems. is to get the technology to market. Aerospace has high barriers The partnership, which comes in the wake of announcements to entry and aero engines have probably the highest barriers to earlier in August that Rolls-Royce is studying high-speed technol- entry of all. So the best way to get our technology into engines is ogy for supersonic transport projects underway at Virgin Galac- through a partnership with a world-leading company like Rolls- tic and Boom Supersonic, marks a key step in Reaction’s quest Royce.” to gain market traction by introducing its pre-cooler system into Beyond the high-speed applications, both commercial and mil- future propulsion systems. itary, Thomas says the deal also represents a “broadening of our Reaction’s lightweight heat exchanger (HTX) forms the core relationship with Rolls-Royce into other areas as well on a more of the company’s novel Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine meaningful and formal basis. It allows us to access next-gen- (Sabre) operating cycle, which is designed for hypersonic flight eration civil aero engines, as well as potentially hybrid electric above Mach 5 as well as for low-cost access to space.
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