Aviation Week & Space Technology

AIAA’s SciTech conference is happening this week in Grapevine, Texas. Listen in as our editors discuss the new developments, highlights and big questions facing the aerospace community.

As the Pentagon postpones a final decision on the fate of the aging Warthog, the aircraft’s maintainers are challenged to keep up with demand from the field.

DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.

The rugged terrain north of Tucson, Arizona, is an appropriate environment to sample the special sensor-driven symbology in this Airbus company’s 3-D vision prototype.

CEO of Brazilian company plans to structure its defense unit with international sales of KC-390 in mind.

The T-X and J-Stars competitions are finally underway, but who will respond and who is all talk?

High fuel prices drove interest in electric taxiing. With oil prices low, pushback time savings is also a driver.

The FAA’s new enhanced-flight-vision rule paves the way for airlines to install technology to fly as if in clear weather all the time, but will they buy it?

The minimal change in design is expected to be cheaper and faster to develop and still compete aggressively against Airbus’s A321neo.

CEO puts profits over market share and sees Embraer well-positioned for the “Uberization” of business jets.

Vanilla sets record; Latitude advances VTOL; Singapore drone traffic management; EHang air taxi progress; more unmanned news.

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are making progress in their development of a guidance kit for the B61-12 nuclear bomb.

Raytheon CEO Tom Kennedy talks to Aviation Week’s editors about its cyberbusiness and transformational technologies.

Two Joint Strike Fighters caught fire in 2016, the latest version of the logistics system is delayed, and the final warfighting software still has problems.

Whether you agree with our selection of Carter, Kendall and Work or think it was a bad choice, we’d like to hear why.

Top U.S. officials revamped acquisition of weapons, engaged non-traditional companies and pushed for new technologies and thinking in the Defense Department.

FAA’s Part 23 rule, and Europe’s pending CS-23 revamp, enable certification of GA aircraft using industry standards that can evolve with advances in technology.

U.S. Air Force kicks off its $16.3 billion T-X contest as gaps in fighter pilot training grow.

Hope springs eternal for a grand bargain on WTO disputes among aircraft OEMs.

With great maps from many sources, the head of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for new paths in an increasingly competitive environment.

The outgoing president has initiated a series of new competitions and contracts, leaving the incoming president with his hands full.

Air Berlin has named Thomas Winkelmann CEO. Winkelmann had been CEO of Germanwings and head of Lufthansa’s hub. GE Aviation has promoted Jean Lydon-Rodgers (see photos) to president/CEO of services from president/CEO of military systems and Tony Mathis to president/CEO of military systems.

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Readers give a shout-out and update to photo issue; offer several Air Force One options; advocate U.S./Japan FB-22 collaboration; correct John Glenn tribute fact.

Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop and potentially others are gunning for the Air Force’s $7 billion J-Stars Recap program.