Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Brazil’s Embraer is analyzing how to start manufacturing ventilators and respirators, replacing components in imported ventilators, and developing

Fast-track propulsion-system test program puts hypersonic developer on course for key mode transition demonstration later this year.

Airbus is faced with an avalanche of requests for delivery deferrals and is preparing for substantial production cuts as many of its customers struggle with the impact of COVID-19 coronavirus on air transport.

The air cargo sector knows it needs to be more sustainable, and efforts are gaining ground.

IATA wants $200 billion of state aid for airlines to survive. Those that do will be in a very different industry, with fewer players.

LOS ANGELES -- As part of efforts to sustain operations and increase its chances of receiving a state bailout to offset the devastating impact of the

Some aerospace suppliers' production facilities are based on continuous processes, as opposed to the manufacturing of discrete objects, and the current COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is therefore creating headaches about operational continuity, an analyst has warned.

Commercial aviation has weathered numerous crises, and each time it has recovered and grown stronger.

Aerospace manufacturing has awakened to a nightmare. Customer demand could swoon as air travel is crippled, battering a sector already reeling from narrowbody and widebody cuts alike.

Ted Colbert, CEO of Boeing Global Services, spoke with Lee Ann Shay on March 4 at Boeing’s Chicago headquarters about how he’s adjusting to the job that he started in October and how he’s navigating today’s very dynamic business environment.

Jim Taiclet, a relative outsider, could herald big changes at Lockheed as the Pentagon’s top contractor changes CEO.

Boeing called for the U.S. government to provide a minimum of $60 billion in aid to the aerospace manufacturing community in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis that has cratered air travel and could trigger a worldwide recession.

EASA and Eurocontrol release reports providing a road map and action plan for artificial intelligence in aviation and air traffic management.

Industry is not impressed by the British government’s plans for clean break from the European regulator.

Pratt & Whitney, a former opponent of fighter engine competitions, seeks to overturn the sole-source award for the F-15EX.

Corporate priorities should be reset to ensure the long-term success of the aerospace industry.

COVID-19 crisis could be turning point in A&D supply chains for reasons besides disrupted operations and sudden collapse in air travel.

To succeed in trade talks, the government will need arrangements with industry based on evidence, not ideology.

Companies such as Teledyne, TransDigm and Heico are leading a breed of A&D players with “horizontal” external growth strategies and impressive track records.

Norway electrifies; Boom slips; repairing satellites; GoFly unfinished; Joby flies for NASA; fluidic propulsion.

Triton production halted; Maxar sees geospatial services growth: FAA certifies training simulator and issues with nuclear modernization.

Following the exit of Bombardier, Airbus is digging deeper into what it can do to make the A220 profitable fast.

Dozens of tech demos and satellites for new networks have been launched into orbit, with hundreds more to come.

An old friend is about to crash the party in A&D manufacturing and MRO: Howmet Aerospace. But it might not be so friendly this time.

Hybrid-electric 50-seater; medical delivery eVTOL; South Korea targets UAM; Electric commuter; Climate research.