India’s private defense contractors are jumping into the space that the government has opened for them. Many have experience, but not always enough. And the biggest projects look too risky for them.
For the subset of pilots willing and able to work in the Far East, the money and rapid job advancement are there for the taking, and will be for the next five years or more.
Dave Gitlin has been promoted to president of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp.’s Aerospace Systems, from head of the Aircraft Systems segment. Alain Bellemare , who has been president/CEO of UTC Propulsion & Aerospace Systems, has resigned but will remain a consultant to UTC. David P.
Air France is being pummeled by outside factors such as the proliferation of low-cost airlines infringing on its territory, but perhaps the biggest shadow is being cast by their “brother” executives at KLM.
The CEOs want the Obama administration to begin government-to-government negotiations with Qatar and the UAE to examine alleged subsidies and overcapacity on routes between the U.S. and those countries.
Just over one hundred days into new ownership and after a restructuring that changed the shape and face of the airline, British leisure carrier Monarch Airlines says it is on course for stability and profitability in 2015.
Reader disputes Aviation Week's choice of Putin as Person of the Year; Human factors emphasized as area of concern for recent crashes, FAA Certification System is lauded; Real-time transmission of flight and voice data is urged; Overlapping capabilities of sensors should serve all branches of science, not just address military concerns; The efficacy of Single Pilot Operations is questioned
ICAO task force to study concepts for sharing risk data and to create guidance for developing risk assessments that states can use to decide when to issue warnings or close airspace.
Unmanned aircraft guides firefighting robot; carrier landings made easier; a simpler approach to thrust vectoring; unmanned helicopter competes on cost with cargo trucks; Europe steps up work on reusable spaceflight.
From X-planes to the “black budget” to where the U.S. is placing its technology bets for the future, our editors discuss what’s buried in President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget request to Congress.
A Northrop Grumman-led team is dashing its plan to propose a modified BAE Systems Hawk trainer for the U.S. Air Force’s T-38 replacement program, opting instead for a clean-sheet design for the $1 billion program.
Senators try to build support to give Ukraine “defensive lethal weapons”; Bigelow Aerospace asks for a review of property rights on the Moon; the Obama budget request omits the proposed private-jet user fee.
The time is right to consider the propensity of the A&D industry to innovate and the aimpoints on which its response to the Pentagon’s call should be targeted.
The procurement and research and development (R&D) plan would increase in the fiscal 2016 budget request by $8 billion compared with levels enacted by Congress in fiscal 2015.
If enacted for fiscal 2016, the combined $534.3 billion “baseline” and $50.9 billion off-book Overseas Contingency Operations requests would be an increase of almost $25 billion, around 4%, over the current fiscal year’s total.
