The results of the 2014 Top-Performing Companies (TPC) study are heartening but troubling: Industry profits soared nearly 10% but the improvements are concentrated among the largest organizations.
The price of carbon dioxide allowances (EUAs) under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) rebounded in April, having crashed to a nine-month low in late March.
It is nearly that time of year again, when Aviation Week runs the numbers and reveals which airlines are the financial overachievers and which are the basket cases.
Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, the new chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, says the aerospace industry can help him with automation and visual displays for greater agility in cyberwarfare. And after get-acquainted visits to the U.K., Germany, Afghanistan and Israel, he concedes the NSA has some fence-mending to do. Revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “caused quite a stir” in Germany, where outrage is still running high over NSA monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.
Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, the new chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, says the aerospace industry can help him with automation and visual displays for greater agility in cyberwarfare. And after get-acquainted visits to the U.K., Germany, Afghanistan and Israel, he concedes the NSA has some fence-mending to do. Revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “caused quite a stir” in Germany, where outrage is still running high over NSA monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.
An editorial in the April 28 issue (page 54) incorrectly referred to a joint venture that provides space launch services to the U.S. Air Force. It is the United Launch Alliance.
Malaysian officials in their first official report on the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, called on the international community to "examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for real-time tracking" of commercial aircraft,” but provided few new details on the mystery.
India’s attempt to intercept a target ballistic missile at an altitude of 120 km (75 mi.) “attained mission objectives,” a senior defense scientist says. “In a significant milestone achieved in developing a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defense system, the Defense Research and Development Organization . . . carried out the maiden ‘Prithvi Defense Vehicle’ [PDV] mission, meeting the objectives perfectly,” a DRDO scientist says.
ATK has tested a 32-ft.-dia. deployable solar array that may one day feed power to advanced solar-electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters as NASA sends cargo into deep space to await human explorers. Under contract to the Glenn Research Center, the company demonstrated its “MegaFlex” arrays, which can generate as much as 40 kw in pairs, and are designed to be scalable to 10 times that output. In thermal-vacuum tests at Glenn, the arrays were evaluated for unassisted deployment at temperatures from plus to minus 65C.
