Today's Top News

• AIA Opinion: Overhaul outdated satellite export laws
  Marion C. Blakey, the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, calls on the U.S. government to reform its export policy for satellites. "The barriers to export have, in effect, turned the domestic space industry into a de facto arsenal sustained almost exclusively by U.S. military purchases," Blakey writes. AOL Defense (6/29)     

Defense

• Panetta teams with defense CEOs to fight sequestration
  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he is working with CEOs of defense contractors to protest the "drastic defense cut" of possible sequestration. "One thing that I can very much assure you is that we are very much a team," Panetta said. "We are both expressing the same concerns to Capitol Hill." Defense News (6/30)     

• House-Senate work groups are proposed to break stalemate
  Republican senators have proposed the creation of bipartisan working groups to work toward compromise over automatic defense cuts under possible sequestration. The initiative has yet to gain support, but Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., sees the effort as key. "I see that as the [main] step forward right now," Ayotte said. The Hill/DEFCON Hill blog (7/1)     

• Other News

• Japan signs agreement to purchase 4 F-35 fighters
  Reuters (6/29)     

Commercial Aviation

• "Spoofing" GPS systems of UAVs presents danger, experts say
  Experts are warning that the guidance systems of unmanned aerial vehicles could be hacked. "Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane," said Todd Humphreys, researcher and founder of Coherent Navigation. In the next decade, there could be 30,000 UAVs flying in U.S. airspace by some estimates. ITWorld.com/Core IT blog (6/28)     

• Airbus will open first U.S. assembly plant in Ala., CEO says
  Fabrice Brégier, the CEO of Airbus, said Sunday that he would announce the European aircraft manufacturer's plans for Mobile, Ala. "I am in Mobile to meet with the governor and to announce the launch of our first final assembly line in the United States," Brégier said. Airbus opened its first assembly plant located outside of Europe in 2008 in Tianjin, China. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/2), Reuters (7/2)     

• Boeing says Airbus offer to move jobs to U.S. doesn't make up for subsidies: Airbus has made offers to move jobs from Europe to the U.S. to blunt a finding by the World Trade Organization that it has received billions of dollars in illegal subsidies. Boeing is trying to pre-empt this strategy by pointing out that even if Airbus moves certain operations to the U.S., it still won't match the number of U.S. jobs lost due to the subsidies. Reuters (6/29)     

• Bombardier receives order for 8 business aircraft
  Bombardier Aerospace has received eight orders for its Global business aircraft from an "undisclosed customer," the company said. The order totals around $507 million, and includes three Global 6000 jets and five Global 8000 jets. The Canadian manufacturer is the world's largest manufacturer of business jets. Canadian Business/The Canadian Press (6/30)     

• Other News

• Blog: FAA will formulate unleaded aviation gas by 2018
  American City Business Journals/Wichita, Kan./Biz Talk blog (6/28)     

• Hawker Beechcraft will lay off 125 workers in Kan.
  KSNW-TV (Wichita, Kan.) (6/29)     

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Space

• Delta IV successfully launches U.S. satellite after weather delay
  A Delta IV Heavy rocket has completed its launch of a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Delta IV, manufactured by United Launch Alliance, completed the launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch had been delayed due to weather. FlightGlobal.com (U.K.) (6/29)     

• Other News

• NASA rebuts reports of layoffs at Cleveland research center
  The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) (6/29)     

• Soyuz space capsule returns to Earth after 193-day mission
  The Washington Post/The Associated Press (7/1)     

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Hot Topics

Top five news stories selected by AIA dailyLead® readers in the past week.

• Contractors brace for possible plant closures, layoffs (Los Angeles Times)

• NASA is working on supersonic jet that would be faster than Concorde (The Daily Mail (London))

• White House is mum on sequester details, defense executives say (Defense News)

• Aerospace firms compete hard for engineers (Google)

• Voyager 1 is nearing solar system's edge, scientists say (Space.com)

• Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.

AIA News

• A must-attend meeting -- commercial aviation on the rise
  Commercial aviation is growing, get on board now. You can't afford to miss AIA's Summer Supplier Management Council Meeting, hosted by Pratt & Whitney, August 14 to 16, 2012 at the Hilton Hartford Hotel, Hartford, Conn. More information.     

• AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey will deliver the Amy Johnson Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society on Thursday, July 5, at 6 p.m.
  Her lecture theme -- "Changing course while losing altitude: Anglo-American aerospace and defence in an age of austerity" -- will highlight how the U.S. and U.K. share the essential roles and responsibilities they hold as defenders of Western values, promulgators of commerce and exporters of security. Register here. Attendance is complimentary.     

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