Aviation Week & Space Technology

At Aviation Week’s 59th annual Laureate Awards in Washington, editors saluted two dozen finalists and then announced a winner in each of six categories: commercial aviation, defense, space, innovation, technology and business aviation.

During John Crichton’s tenure as CEO of Nav Canada, it pioneered the use of ADS-B and made significant improvements in the transatlantic corridors it manages—the busiest oceanic airspace in the world.

U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory/Lockheed Martin team was named Aviation Week’s 2016 Defense Laureate winners for its work on an integrated collision avoidance system (ICAS) designed to automatically maneuver U.S. combat aircraft away from an imminent collision with the ground or other aircraft.

For delivering on a 15-year promise to complete the initial reconnaissance of the known Solar System, the 2016 Space Laureate goes to the scientists and engineers who created and flew the New Horizons probe to Pluto, and beyond.

For their vision in the acquisition and transformation of Textron Aviation, Textron Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly and Textron Aviation President and CEO Scott Ernest were selected as the Aviation Week 2016 Business Aviation Laureates.

Tomorrow’s Leaders’ honors at Aviation Week 2016 Laureates Awards gives recognition to young U.S. service members already excelling in their fields.

Imagine having multiple over-the-horizon goals and achieving them all, as the 2016 Technology Laureate winner did.

Despite uncertain funding, Aurora Flight Sciences’ Orion unmanned aircraft project has achieved considerable technological success, and for that it is awarded Aviation Week’s 2016 Innovation Laureate.

There may be some hints of intent as the presidential campaign heads into the home stretch in September-October.

The aerospace arm of Canada’s National Research Council creates a unique facility for controlled research into passenger comfort and cabin-crew performance in flight.

Drone delivery services like Amazon’s Prime Air and Google’s Project Wing will reinvent how manned aircraft will eventually fly.

The strategic world of today does not conform to air mobility and force-structure plans based on mass force movements between secure bases.

JPL head Charles Elachi was awarded an Aviation Week Lifetime Achievement Laureate for “a lifetime dedicated to gaining a better understanding of the Solar System.

Offshore industry and OEMs have taken new approaches to safety procedures since the Shetlands Super Puma crash.

USAF Staff Sgt. Greggory Swarz’s decision to rush—with no thought of personal safety—to aid crash victims at an air base in Spain resulted in two airmen surviving a crash that proved fatal to 11.

Committee leader seeks to improve FAA; Lockheed offers new platform to end U-2, Global Hawk controversy; and Air Force seeks reflectors on cubesats.

Aerion takes a giant step forward in its pursuit of a supersonic business jet, adding another OEM to its team that already includes Airbus.

Sales to Pakistan are moving forward, but without further sales, Lockheed’s manufacturing line may run cold.

Taiwan pursues new trainer; F-35 team manages expectations on U.S. Air Force start date; Boeing scores major CH-47F contract mod; and Lockheed delivers tankers to Saudi Arabia.

New Typhoon capabilities could be paid for via savings from operating model.

Britain’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are growing their presence at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina as they prepare to introduce the F-35 into service.

Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 hybrid airship venture represents its first significant foray into civil aviation since the 1980s.

French will retool instrument to stop vacuum leak that stopped a launch to Mars that had been scheduled for this month.

Gradatim Ferociter—By degrees, ferociously—aptly states Amazon and Blue Horizon founder Jeff Bezos’s approach to fulfilling his visions for humans in space, and NASA’s.

Dubbed ExoMars, the two-pronged mission will send a methane-sniffing satellite, landing demonstrator and rover equipped with a drill to dig further into the mystery of trace-gas sources on Mars.