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Paris Air Show positioned to reinforce U.S. aerospace trade surplus

The Aerospace Industries Association says this year's Paris Air Show will serve as a critical forum for global trade negotiations. It presents U.S. OEMs and suppliers an opportunity to showcase their offerings and reinforce the national aerospace trade surplus amid tariff disputes.

2025-06-15T02:47:22.011640-07:00

Axios

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission at Risk Amid FY2026 Budget Cuts

2025-06-14T13:24:42.609843-07:00

Reuters

US transport chief seeks $20 billion in initial ATC modernization funding

2025-06-12T16:03:15.259265-07:00

AINonline

FAA Issues RFI for ATC Modernization Prime Integrator

2025-06-12T10:43:27.564069-07:00

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Payload

Pentagon Eyes ‘Missile Defense as a Service’ for Golden Dome Components The Pentagon is exploring a subscription-based model to transfer elements of President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense architecture to commercial contractors. The move aims to leverage private-sector innovation and cost-sharing, as the program grapples with budget pressures and integration challenges.

2025-06-16T04:47:52.188074-07:00

Pentagon Eyes ‘Missile Defense as a Service’ for Golden Dome Components

Skift

Trump Administration Considers Expanding Travel Ban to 36 Additional Countries A recent State Department cable reveals the Trump administration is weighing the inclusion of 36 more nations in its travel ban enacted earlier this month, intensifying entry restrictions amid broader security and immigration control efforts.

2025-06-15T12:24:32.112347-07:00

Trump Administration Considers Expanding Travel Ban to 36 Additional Countries

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Paris Air Show positioned to reinforce U.S. aerospace trade surplus The Aerospace Industries Association says this year's Paris Air Show will serve as a critical forum for global trade negotiations. It presents U.S. OEMs and suppliers an opportunity to showcase their offerings and reinforce the national aerospace trade surplus amid tariff disputes.

2025-06-15T02:47:22.011640-07:00

Paris Air Show positioned to reinforce U.S. aerospace trade surplus

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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission at Risk Amid FY2026 Budget Cuts NASA’s flagship Mars Sample Return mission faces mounting uncertainty as the Biden administration’s fiscal 2026 budget blueprint slashes funding for planetary science, threatening to cancel or delay the long-planned effort to bring Martian rock and soil samples to Earth after decades of development.

2025-06-14T13:24:42.609843-07:00

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission at Risk Amid FY2026 Budget Cuts

Axios

California Poised to Lose $3.9B as Trump Proposes 24% NASA Budget Cut President Trump’s proposed FY2026 budget would cut NASA’s funding by 24%, potentially eliminating key programs and delivering as much as $3.9 billion in lost economic activity in California—more than any other state. The reductions jeopardize research centers, contractor workforces and local innovation across the Golden State.

2025-06-14T13:24:40.397601-07:00

California Poised to Lose $3.9B as Trump Proposes 24% NASA Budget Cut

fortuneindia.com

India Decentralizes Space Economy with Policy Push, ISRO Support, Aiming for $44B by 2033 India is shifting from a centrally controlled model to a decentralized space sector, enacting state-level industrial policies and ISRO partnerships to foster private startup growth. New regulatory frameworks aim to expand domestic capabilities and capture a projected $44 billion market by 2033.

2025-06-14T13:19:24.966818-07:00

India Decentralizes Space Economy with Policy Push, ISRO Support, Aiming for $44B by 2033

Bloomberg

Trump Intervenes to Push EchoStar, FCC Chair to Resolve Spectrum License Dispute President Donald Trump has intervened to push EchoStar Corp. and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to resolve a dispute over the satellite communications company’s valuable spectrum licenses that underpin its planned service rollouts. The president urged both parties to cut a deal and avoid license reallocation, sources say.

2025-06-13T14:47:26.599548-07:00

Trump Intervenes to Push EchoStar, FCC Chair to Resolve Spectrum License Dispute

Breaking Defense

Senate Nears Reconciliation Deal to Safeguard DoD Spectrum Amid Aviation Interference Warnings Senate Republicans say they're near a deal to enshrine protections for critical DoD spectrum in their reconciliation package, prompted by Sen. Maria Cantwell's warnings that spectrum reallocation or commercial auctions without safeguards could interfere with civil and military aviation communications.

2025-06-13T13:12:11.566347-07:00

Senate Nears Reconciliation Deal to Safeguard DoD Spectrum Amid Aviation Interference Warnings

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