Israel Aerospace Industries and Sierra Nevada Corp. have partnered to jointly develop an unmanned aircraft system with vertical takeoff-and-landing features. The partnership seeks to offer a tactical VTOL UAS to the U.S. defense market as both companies have observed a demand for unmanned aerial platforms that can support military air operations, IAI said Tuesday. The joint […] More

S. Sita Sonty, a more than 15-year foreign service veteran and previously a senior adviser for legislative affairs and administration at the State Department, has been named vice president of international business at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will work at SNC’s Washington, D.C office and manage a product portfolio designed for the aerospace, defense and […] More

Engineering Services Network has received a potential five-year, $69.6 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide technical, engineering and logistics support for weapon systems programs of the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The company said Monday it will help test, engineer and conduct post-event analysis of the Aegis Combat System and the Ballistic Missile Defense […] More

The Energy Department plans to extend a contract with a joint venture of AECOM and SNC-Lavalin‘s Atkins business unit to manage, treat and dispose nuclear waste at the department’s Hanford site. The DOE said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice that it intends to award a one-year contract extension to Washington River Protection Solutions, with work slated to occur […] More

Engineering Services Network has won a potential five-year, $39.5 million to help the U.S. Navy develop, modify and validate a combat systems operational sequencing system. The company said Friday it will deliver CSOSS for integration with shipboard sensors, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapon systems. ESN will also provide CSOSS analyses, technical and programmatic […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has achieved a contractual milestone with NASA for the company-built Dream Chaser spacecraft after a test vehicle completed a free-flight test in November. SNC said Friday Dream Chaser cleared Milestone 4B under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability contract, confirming that the spacecraft is designed to perform safe runway landings from space to Earth. NASA’s Commercial […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has awarded Triumph Group a contract to produce a landing gear system for a reusable lifting-body vehicle designed to support NASA‘s resupply mission to the International Space Station. Triumph said Tuesday it will provide main and nose landing gear along with integrated actuation technologies for door systems of Dream Chaser spacecraft SNC is building under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries have developed a trainer aircraft in order to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X program that seeks to replace the T-38 jet, Quwa reported Monday. Bilal Khan writes SNC and TAI established a Colorado-based subsidiary, Freedom Aircraft Ventures, to offer the Freedom Trainer aircraft. The Freedom Trainer jet will be equipped with […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has conducted a free flight test of a spacecraft designed to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract. The Dream Chaser test spacecraft was air-lifted by a Columbia 234-UT Chinook helicopter before the space vehicle performed a pre-planned flight and autonomous landing operation […] More

CAE has partnered with the Saudi National Company of Aviation to establish a flight training center at the King Fahad International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The SNCA-sponsored facility will offer commercial pilot license curriculum, courseware, staff and instructor training and control systems safety education, CAE said Sunday. Both companies made the announcement during the 2017 Dubai Air Show. “This center gives […] More

Sierra Nevada Corporation and Embraer Defense & Security have received orders from the U.S. Air Force to deliver six additional A-29 Super Tucano aircraft in support of the A-29 Afghanistan Program. Embraer said Wednesday the aircraft units will be manufactured in  Jacksonville, Florida. The addition brings the program’s total aircraft count to 26. The A-29 is a light attack aircraft that employs electronic, […] More

A Sierra Nevada Corp-built spacecraft has been subjected to a captive carry test at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center under the second phase of flight tests designed to prepare the vehicle for a future orbital flight. SNC said Wednesday Dream Chaser tests are part of a Space Act Agreement the company and the space agency signed through the Commercial […] More