Aerospace and engineering services, including the Al Ain-based composite aircraft parts manufacturer Strata, contributed 22% to last year's group revenues for the Mubadala Development Company (MDC) – the Abu Dhabi government-owned investment company has confirmed.
The Office of Naval Research’s Laser Weapon System Demonstrator will be designed to protect the U.S. Navy’s DDG-51 Flight 2 destroyers from unmanned aircraft and swarming small boats.
Humans remain at the heart of the Pentagon’s evolving strategy to restore U.S. conventional deterrence, but machines will play a key and increasing role from intelligence analysis to combat operations.
Qatar Airways will participate in the world's largest travel and trade event, ITB Berlin, from 9-13 March 2016, and is planning to make a significant network announcement.
Local and national experts across the aviation, aerospace, defence and space sectors will this month debate in Abu Dhabi the major human capital development challenges, including workforce localisation, when they meet at the Global Aerospace Summit running at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from March 7-8.
Military customers focus on upgrades in the absence of clarity and funding for new programs, while the civil market races ahead in technology and numbers, but remains relatively small in value.
How can manufacturers extend the reach of intellectual property to keep cost and price margins strong, while at the same time, manage it with greater control?
Rolls and other aeroengine OEMs need two types of critical mass: scale in gas turbines to fund ongoing R&D and corporate critical mass to ride business ebbs and flows
Saab ships laminar wing Section as Airbus A340-300 moves toward 2017 flight tests; NASA fires 3-D-sprinted rocket motor; Clean Sky tests of advanced business-jet design; Sea-Tac RFP for biofuel study; U.K. pushes out R&D commitment to 2026.
Rapid advances in commercial smallsat launch technology, plus an explosion-prone energetic propellant, cause research agency to drop plans to flight-test air-launched smallsat booster.
Northrop Grumman wind-tunnel tests and tail-sitter VTOL concept for Darpa’s Tern program and hopes for a contract to build a demonstrator for seaborne flight trails
Talent and technology innovation have shaped society’s past, and they will surely shape its future. But all stakeholders must understand what spawns innovation.
The six-nation UCAV demonstrator completed an initial phase in November 2015, but will continue flight trials in 2016 and potentially beyond. In a parallel effort, Britain has just completed a third round of flight tests of its Taranis UCAV demonstrator. And a four-nation effort, led by Germany, is to begin designing an unmanned ISR platform in the spring of 2016.
