The shifting competitive landscape—from China to space startups—is among the topics covered in an interview Aviation Week conducted with Boeing International’s president.
With two-thirds of the world’s air navigation service providers already using Thales automation systems, the company could rapidly become the dominant player in the emerging field of remote control tower technologies.
March 21-24—3rd ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads. European Space Agency. Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands. See congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16c05/introduction March 21-24—International Operators Conference/NBAA. Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. San Diego. See nbaa.org/events/ioc/2016
The race for routes to Cuba by U.S. carriers is on. Will there be enough demand for flights to cities other than Havana? Is Cuba ready for a rapid increase in tourism? Join our editors as they discuss the possibilities for this new market.
The Obama administration must address the massive subsidization of the Gulf carriers—more than $42 billion over the past decade—or U.S. workers, communities and our airline industry will pay the price.
L ockheed Martin has named John Rood vice president-domestic business development/operations. He succeeds John Ward, who retires in August. Rood had been vice president-business development at Raytheon.
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has a long-term vision of humankind moving heavy manufacturing into space, coupled with a short-term plan to develop reusable rocketry.
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DEFENSE Pratt & Whitney will power the Northrop Grumman B-21 Long-Range Strike Bomber, one of seven suppliers named by the U.S. Air Force. The others are aerostructures manufacturers GKN Aerospace, Spirit AeroSystems and Orbital ATK, electronic systems suppliers BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins, and tooling provider Janicki Industries.
The Senate commerce committee’s bill won’t include ATC reforms but will inspire debate over airline seat space; the Navy asks Congress for 14 more F/A-18 Super Hornets; Trump names a national security adviser.
Whatever contributing factors account for the exact rise in spending, the major reorganization announced at the end of December and partly explained in January and February is supposed to further boost the capacity of China’s military.
Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life could be the bonus of NASA’s robotic mission to Europa to map the Jovian moon’s icy surface and might engender more government support.
