Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Kelly Ortberg, the former head of Collins Aerospace who was a key leader in the supplier’s melt-up into Raytheon Technologies, has left its executive ranks, company representatives confirmed.

Industry expects actions from U.S., Europe and other governments in 2021 to encourage production of low-carbon aviation fuels.

Cutting jobs, closing factories, reducing purchase costs but protecting research and technology investment: Safran finds a new balance.

A cyberattack on a newly acquired manufacturing asset and a foreign policy shift by the new Biden administration combined to overshadow topsized financial results disclosed by aerospace supplier Kaman on Feb. 26.

Ask the Editors: With demand for widebodies diminishing, lessors will abstain from placing new widebody orders for several years.

Growing e-commerce and shifting transportation modes are positive signs for air cargo.

Liquid-hydrogen prototype; lenticular rotors; GPS in GEO; emergency-response eVTOL; and flying car advances.

The former Boeing CEO and business partner Kirstin Bartok Touw discuss their new investment venture.

Spirit AeroSystems is growing the defense part of its revenue streams faster than expected, which is mildly helping to offset lost work in making airliners, the company’s CEO said Feb. 23.

An acquisition proposal, China’s rise and a new administration mix as good cause for reconsidering U.S. defense industrial base policy.

Advanced air mobility startup Lilium has selected Spanish aerostructures supplier Aciturri to build the composite airframe for its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.

Ask the Editors: Exports will be critical for both the Tempest and FCAS programs.

Singapore Airlines and Korean Air are two of the region’s airlines pushing back aircraft deliveries to delay growth and spending.

Distressed commercial assets, industry consolidation, red-hot defense niches and macroeconomics will lead to an interesting year in M&As.

Boeing says that its recently completed deal with Tata-Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL) to build 737 vertical fins in India will augment rather than replace existing fin production in China and South Korea.

How can aftermarket providers use the “more electric” present to prepare for the future?

Single-aisle production is planned to rise by the end of the year as Airbus awaits the inflection point toward market recovery.

Around a decade after preparing to divest its aerostructures businesses, Airbus is now reversing course and wants to keep component manufacturing inside the group for the long term.

SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.

In the post-pandemic era, supply chains will become stronger and probably – but not always – shorter.

The U.S. and Mexico are joined at the hip but remain worlds apart when it comes to aerospace manufacturing attractiveness.

The potential demand forecast for tens of thousands of delivery drones and air taxis means there is a growing need for propellers and rotors with better performance, lower noise and easier producibility.

Slashed engineering spending, market coverage gaps and abandoned product developments are endangering Boeing Commercial Aircraft.

Agency’s focus is primarily on pilot human-factors issues.

Initial studies on a UK/French Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon have been completed, and an assessment phase is due to follow.