Jonathan Archer has become director of engineering and airworthiness for the Washington-based General Aviation Manufacturers Association. He was an associate with Booz and Co., working on projects for the FAA and Joint Planning and Development Office.
Carl Trustee (see photo) has been appointed as vice president of Landing Systems Solutions for the Aerospace Group of Crane Aerospace & Electronics, Lynnwood, Washington. He was head of the Central Engineering Group at Parker Aerospace.
Mark A. Caylor (see photos) has been named corporate vice president/president of Enterprise Services/chief strategy officer and Stephen C. Movius corporate vice president/treasurer of Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp. Caylor adds the chief strategy officer role. Movius continues as vice president-investor relations.
Johann Panier (see photo) has been named CEO of U.S.-based Barfield Inc., which Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance recently acquired. He was head of business development for AFI KLM E&M.
USN Rear Adm. Jesse A. Wilson, Jr., has become director of the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization on the Joint Staff, succeeding USAF Brig. Gen. Kenneth E. Todorov. Wilson was executive assistant to the chief of naval operations and interim deputy director of the 21st Century Sailor Office.
S hawn Kling has been named president of Universal Asset Management , Memphis, Tennessee. He has been chairman of Gulf Strategic; a member of the boards of directors of Global Energy & Lighting and Red Arrow Logistics; and strategic adviser to Dynamis Energy. Greg Brinkerhoff has been appointed chief financial officer.
Planetary scientists hope the seven instruments NASA has competitively selected for its planned Mars 2020 rover will find evidence that life has existed on the red planet and maybe that it still does.
With about 3,000 built, and around 400 still in operation around the world, the L-39 Albatros jet trainer was a major success for Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody.
Aug. 21-22—Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide UAS Workshop. Dayton Beach, Florida. See proed.erau.edu or email [email protected] Aug. 22—54th Annual Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine Conference. Bangalore. www.isam.in/ Aug. 25—Ninth Asia-Pacific Congress of Aerospace Medicine. Beijing. www.apfama.org/2014
Two government sensors that may fly in space under the new U.S. Air Force Hosted Payloads Solutions program (see page 27) are a French-built advanced data-collection system that will receive data from ocean buoys and electronic-tagged marine life, and a Franco-Canadian search-and-rescue satellite-aided tracking system. Both were developed for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and both were left without rides to orbit when the joint civil/military National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess) was cancelled in 2010.
The commercial aircraft industry has largely stayed on the sidelines of the political tension between Russia and the West, but that may be changing. The latest round of sanctions imposed after the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 includes the suspension of Ex-Im Bank deals with Russia—a decision that could hurt Boeing’s commercial aircraft sales there.
