Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Composites can enable the use of more and lighter blades to enhance aircraft performance.

Boeing, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF), have celebrated the naming and rollout of Qatar’s advanced F-15, the F-15QA.

Mubadala's GlobalFoundries is collaborating with BAE Systems to produce radiation-hardened RAD510 System on Chip (SoC) single board computers (SBCs) for space.

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Velis Electro in the U.S.; Honeywell UAV satcom; water-based cubesat propulsion; faster SAF path; drone delivery partnership.

A newly opened factory on the Skunk Works complex heralds a new era and a return to series manufacturing by Lockheed Martin's 78-year-old advanced development programs business unit.

Ampaire completes trial flights with hybrid-electric testbed on regional airline route in Scotland.

Etihad Engineering, EOS, a supplier for responsible manufacturing solutions based on industrial 3D printing technology, and Baltic3D.eu, an industrial 3D printing service in Northern Europe, have agreed to collaborate on a Research and Development project “FDM and SLS industrial 3D printing technology applicability in serial manufacturing of aircraft interior parts.”

Is there a flying aircraft, and who is the prime contractor? What about timing and numbers procured?

Lockheed Martin’s approach attempts to achieve automotive-style industrial speed for low-volume, high-performance aerospace applications.

Adding brains to the Reaper; Japan tests KC-46; BlackSky, Palantir team up; and U.S. Air Force hires Red 6 for T-38 synthetic training.

The Austrian aerospace supplier's CEO said the second half of 2021 is so far showing positive signs for the industry and FACC anticipates renewed growth from 2022.

A flurry of headlines makes it seem the middle of the A&D industry is going to dwindle to just a few companies.

For industry’s finances, 2020 really was that bad, and 2021 may not be that good, after all.

X Prime programs would fill the gap between experimental X-planes and Y-plane prototypes.

Embraer Executive Aircraft’s Melbourne, Florida, facility will receive a $97.2 million, two-year revolving working capital loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. to support exports of business jets produced there.

Satellogic, a specialist in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, has entered a new partnership with GeoTerraImage, the geospatial solutions provider in southern Africa, to provide high-resolution satellite imagery to the African Space industry.

TransDigm Group is bidding 13% more for Meggitt than Parker Hannifin, the first two companies revealed Aug. 11.

PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA—To a soundtrack of “Levitating” by English pop singer Dua Lipa, about 100 suit-clad dignitaries filed into Building 658 on the

Efforts by NASA to develop a next-generation spacesuit face significant cost and schedule challenges that will push back its availability to April 2025 at the earliest, according to audit by the agency’s inspector general.

Eurofighter nations green-light incremental upgrade package; LTE midlife update plans still await agreement.

EDGE Group, the UAE’s advanced technology group for defence, said it will have a major presence at Dubai Airshow 2021.

Turkish Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Boeing for manufacturing and supplying Fan Cowls for Boeing 737, the legendary single aisle aircraft family.

For a variety of reasons there may be relatively fewer strategic transactions in A&D as the post-pandemic recovery continues.

The suspension of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) SpaceJet regional jet program helped the company’s aerospace division return to profit in the first quarter of fiscal 2021.