Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Cancellation of the U.S. Army’s scout helicopter program is driving focus on UAS and uncrewed teaming.

The OEM’s two-decade experiment in remote management has failed.

Large suppliers maintain cautious optimism that production-line struggles will be short-lived and are not a precursor to lower long-term production rate targets

The Alia eVTOL makes the first piloted full transitions between vertical and horizontal flight.

Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.

The Tikehau Aero Partenaires 2 fund is aimed at supporting small- and medium-size companies in the aerospace sector.

Lockheed’s road map to victory provides clues for the sixth-generation combat aircraft program.

Despite a comfortable backlog, the country’s industry continues to grapple with financial woes and recovering know-how.

The company is making aircraft improvements and looking to collaboration and technology transfer to facilitate US-2 seaplane exports.

Bombardier, Embraer, and Gulfstream have shown new aircraft can be developed at reasonable prices.

In 2024, CFM's original plan was a 20%-25% growth of Leap production, but that uptick has been revised downward, to 10%-15%—mostly affecting Leap 1B production.

Supply chain problems with different root causes will keep output below previous forecasts for much of 2024, as 737 challenges draw more scrutiny.

COVID-19 wiped out six years of growth and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value.

The opening of a Boeing Research and Technology center in Nagoya heralds a new push by the OEM to focus on sustainable aviation technologies and innovation in the country.

The aerospace industry is about to face new constraints in raw material supply, due to geopolitical tensions and needs for emerging technologies, GIFAS said.

Wary of the green hydrogen production challenge, industry cautiously eyes growth prospects.

Buoyed by double-digit first-quarter revenues and a busy commercial and defense orderbook, GE Aerospace reported an operating profit of $1.5 billion.

Advanced battery startup Amprius and battery pack manufacturer Stafl Systems to develop high-performance battery systems for uncrewed aircraft and AAM.

After a successful 2023 in recruitment, the aerospace sector in France is planning to add 25,000-30,000 employees in 2024.

A reckoning in Renton, Washington, and Wichita is triggering jitters over a potential earthquake across the supply chain.

A Boeing engineer has come forward to challenge claims made by the OEM on the long-term safety of the 787, sparking a new round of scrutiny for the beleaguered manufacturer. Aviation Week editors break it all down.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Progress on 787 quality problems is challenged by whistleblower claims of long-term fleet safety risks.

Boeing is working to validate recommendations for inspections on 787 forward pressure bulkheads to identify potential problems in the critical subassemblies.