The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold.

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American Airlines is seizing on the downturn posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to streamline its fleet structure, announcing plans to retire five separate fleet types spanning 99 airliners.

Teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will receive nearly $1 billion in NASA funding to hone designs and development plans for lunar landing systems to carry a pair of U.S. astronauts to the Moon’s surface in 2024, a time frame the agency is sticking with despite economic and social upheavals caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. 

Months into the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans no doubt have become accustomed—even comfortable with—wearing face masks in public settings such as grocery stores. 

Tier-1 aerospace and defense systems and equipment supplier Safran is conducting a strong response to the pandemic’s consequences, in a bid to maintain financial balance.

A $707 million contract for F110 engines awarded April 28 to GE Aviation was expedited to help provide relief to a U.S. propulsion industry badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said.

Three more U.S. carriers announced plans to require all passengers wear face coverings in the cabin, as calls in the U.S. Congress for a national policy gathered steam in light of the continued COVID-19 pandemic.