Jim Downey, co-founder of The EnCore Group, has received the third annual Gilbert W. Speed Award for outstanding leadership and collaboration across the global aerospace and defense supply chain. Downey founded C&D Aerospace in 1972, growing it to a 4,000-employee, $400 million enterprise before selling the business in 2005. In 2011, he launched the EnCore Group. EnCore employs more than 800 people in Southern California and Mexico.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $29.7m U.S Navy contract for depot maintenance services in support of 44 Navy and Marine Corps Reserve F-5N/F aircraft through March 2018. LEONARDO announced order from Pakistan for undisclosed number of additional AGUSTAWESTLAND AW139 intermediate twin engine helicopters; deliveries starting in early 2018.
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Aviation Week has won top honors in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Aviation Week won “top brand/overall editorial excellence” in the largest category. And it won the “Grand Neal,” the recognition of the best among winners in all categories the Neal Awards cover—such as best series, best technical content and best website.
Andalusia may be best known to most North Americans as a prime Spanish vacation destination, but increasingly, economic development officials want to make it the same for U.S. and Canadian aerospace manufacturers, too.
EPI has in-service support agreement with Malaysian government for the AIRBUS A400M military transport aircraft’s TP400 turboprop engines through October 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $33.7m U.S. Army contract for continued software development, training, maintenance of the Counter-Rocket, Artillery Mortar command and control system through March 31, 2018.
Convincing Congress to retire an aircraft is rarely easy, but the U.S. Air Force may fare better in its attempt to retire the F-15 in favor of the F-16 than it did with earlier efforts to retire the U-2 or A-10, according to former Air Force Secretary Whit Peters. The A-10 battle, Peters says, was complicated by what he describes as an “historic feeling that the Air Force never really supported close air support.” Unlike those fights, the Air Force has been able to reduce numbers of aircraft such as the C-5, Peters says.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts a total of 121 Western-designed C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance) aircraft will retire from 2017 to 2026.
Scientists assigned to NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft have quantified the red planet’s loss of atmosphere to the forces of the solar wind and radiation.
The head of U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) says he would consider any use of nuclear weapons against America and its allies by Russia, or any other nation, no matter the explosive yield, a strategic attack.
The chief executive of one of the West’s leading aerospace manufacturers and lessors, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, has a message for fellow aerospace, defense and aviation business leaders.
Development of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is complete, 16 years after program launch, says the Japanese defense ministry, declaring the type fit for service.
