Dassault Systemes is working with Wichita State University to find the best ways to train and attract qualified personnel for future aerospace manufacturing.
After years of declining research efforts, defense primes and aerospace OEMs are repositioning to become the perfect partners for startups via corporate venture capital projects.
GE’s Advanced Turboprop will feature more additively manufactured parts than any previous engine, reducing 855 conventionally made components to just 12 3-D-printed parts.
After the U.S. presidential election, almost everyone will want to repatriate overseas money for use in rebuilding America’s infrastructure, including aviation.
While boosters and skeptics disagree on where the commercial and defense budget cycles are, most say the current business environment is no place for amateurs.
Boeing’s use of additive manufacturing is one for the record books, Guinness World Records, but more recently it's also helping with flight-testing capabilities.
On one side Amazon, Google, Uber; and the other FedEx, UPS, DHL—are all looking hard at the potential for autonomous and electric aircraft to bring new ways of transporting goods and people.
When aerospace executives look at digital opportunities, too many use the traditional technology lens without sufficiently evaluating business model impacts.
With about $40 million a year to spend, the agency’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project has so far funded 15 subprojects in three annual selection rounds.
Expect the trade deal to loom large after the election as the A&D industry is offers full support, despite opposition from both U.S. presidential candidates.
