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Spain's Enaire has formed a consortium to advance the evaluation of projects conducted in the framework of Europe's SESAR ATM research and technology initiative.

The MBDA-led team leading one of two European hypersonic interceptor efforts is poised to settle on its preferred configuration within weeks.

The European Space Agency and its military counterpart the European Defense Agency have agreed to study how to boost Earth observation for security purposes.

The Middle East crisis shows European aviation’s greatest vulnerability is its dependence on fossil fuels and that should be a catalyst for strengthening climate legislation, not weakening it, argues Transport & Environment.

European military officials are in the closing stages of reviewing high-level requirements for the future Earth-observation constellation.

Airlines are bracing for the far-reaching effects of the war in the Middle East.

The EU will spend €1.07 billion ($1.26 billion) to fund 57 defense development projects, including funding for loitering munitions and space-based programs.

Environmental barriers, notably legislative, are slowing infrastructure capacity growth planning.

Bruno Even, Airbus Helicopters’ CEO for eight years, on April 1 hands over the reins of the world’s biggest rotorcraft manufacturer.

The EC is starting to open up business opportunities to industry under the just approved €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) European Defense Industry Program.

Airbus has used its modified Airbus Do-DT25 uncrewed aircraft system for the first time to intercept a drone target.

Space sovereignty has become a major talking point for governments and industry as they adjust to a new geopolitical landscape.

The EU has earmarked $133 million in funding to speed efforts to move defense technology initiatives into the field more quickly.

The airlines say European e-SAF mandates cannot be met and warn that other environmental legislation puts the sector’s competitiveness at risk.

Seeing shortcomings in their support to the aviation sector, EU officials and members of the European Parliament are considering a more comprehensive approach.

Gulf airlines continue to face heavy disruption, while U.S. carriers deal with a fuel cost surge and must compete against largely hedged European airlines.

EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas has named competitiveness as the “overriding objective” of Europe’s new aviation strategy.

The intensive use of batteries in a hybrid-electric propulsion system may generate a replacement and obsolescence challenge, a Collins Aerospace official says.

Beyond European exasperation with the Trump administration, there are market realities causing a rupture in Europe’s missile buying habit.

Clean Aviation Annual Forum speakers say the EU's long-term budget plan may emerge with dedicated support for aeronautical tech, from laboratory to production.

ESA is prepping to launch two low-Earth-orbit PNT demonstration satellites to lay the groundwork for an operational constellation to be lofted this decade.

National ambitions may hinder consolidation in the LEO constellation communications market.

Lufthansa Group has called on the EU to widen its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) mandate to include other transport modes.

The European Union’s IRIS² autonomous secure sat communication system will likely expand beyond the core member states, helping the economics of the project.

Some airlines and other industry representatives are arguing that the Open Skies agreement signed between the EC and the Gulf state in 2021 should be suspended.