SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
About a year into the job, DARPA director Stephen Winchell said the agency should reframe its space portfolio to serve the fast-moving commercial market rather than operating mainly as a collection of high-risk experiments. The remarks position DARPA as a closer bridge between novel government needs and commercial delivery timelines.
DefenseNews.com
By DefenseNews.com: A tally of international defense spending shows continued budget increases around the globe. Plus, the Air Forces orders up more advanced fighters.
Breaking Defense
• Carley Welch
By Breaking Defense: The company said in a release today that it will be providing its Switchblade 400 product, a portable, anti-armor loitering munition with medium range.
Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
By Flying Magazine: Founder and CEO Mukund Karanjikar tells FLYING how CycloKinetics is flipping the script in aerospace design.
politico.eu
• Ferdinand Knapp
By politico.eu: The officials are suspected of using satellite equipment installed on the rooftops of Russian diplomatic buildings to spy on targets in Vienna.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor will operate and enhance the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (GEGD) platform, an unclassified web-based system, under a $70 million award announced May 4.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: aims to boost innovation at state airframer. A veteran of the Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) Tejas Light Combat Aircraft programme has been tapped as the company’s new leader.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Emergency Foreign Military Sales notifications clear guided rocket deliveries to three Gulf-region allies, with Patriot and Integrated Battle Command System sales also approved for Qatar and Kuwait.
The War Zone
• Ian Ellis-Jones, Tyler Rogoway
