Program Management

By Steve Trimble
The charge arose during a government-led review of the classified program in May, Lockheed’s chief financial officer told analysts during a teleconference.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
FORT RUCKER, Alabama—Two decades of counter-insurgency (COIN) operations have reshaped the U.S. Army’s aviation branch organizationally and
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Fresh off Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight, founder Jeff Bezos is offering to cut his company’s fee for a human lunar landing demonstration mission dramatically and add—at company expense—an orbital flight test.
Space

By Angus Batey
A nonprofit organization is uniting industry and academia to protect on-orbit assets.
Space

By Sean Broderick
The airframer and FAA are still discussing methodology for 787 post-production inspections.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
The 10-min. suborbital spaceflight on July 20 marks the first time a crewed spacecraft made a debut flight without test pilots, test engineers or professional astronauts aboard.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Rocket Lab has modified the design and manufacture of the igniter for the Rutherford engine after a fault in this system was identified as the root cause of the company’s Electron launch vehicle failure on May 15.
Space

By Tony Osborne
South African fan-in-wing business jet is first subject of Callen-Lenz flight control system project.
Program Management

By Steve Trimble
An automatic-takeoff-and-landing capability is scheduled to be released to the operational fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 Reapers owned by the U.S. Air Force next year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Universal Hydrogen signs deals with first customers for hydrogen-electric propulsion retrofit.
Sustainability

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Army and Navy officials are planning the first round of upgrades for a joint hypersonic missile program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Hard on the heels of being appointed chief executive of delivery-drone developer Volansi, former assistant U.S. Air Force Secretary Will Roper has been named to the board of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Beta Technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Alex Derber
Airlines around the world have rapidly adapted their operations to perform more cargo flights, with Europe this week the focus of industry efforts to
MRO

By Jens Flottau
Their Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines could challenge Boeing’s new narrowbody aircraft plans.
Program Management

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy plans to modernize the most critical standoff jamming system in the military’s inventory for the first time since 1971.
Program Management

By Irene Klotz
With the successful deployment of seven small satellites into low Earth orbit, Virgin Orbit has begun commercial launch service operations as
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Germany takes the lead in pushing Europe to embrace e-fuels produced from electric, hydrogen and CO2.
Sustainability

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault Aviation has created a joint research laboratory in partnership with two French academic institutions dubbed Moliere, an acronym of the French for “innovative functional materials for aviation.”
Emerging Technologies

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Program Management

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is preparing for its second Advanced Battle Management System capability release that will focus on improving command and control for U.S. Northern Command’s homeland defense mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Estes Industries, famous among model rocket enthusiasts for the company’s solid propellant motors, has spun off a new company sporting lineage to Aurora Flight Sciences that aims to provide engineering support for larger launchers.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Without surface mobility, moonwalkers will have a very limited exploration zone.
Program Management

By Carole Rickard Hedden, Graham Warwick
The energy behind a new industry forming is palpable—excitement about something new, the risk involved, the pace of change.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
The art of succeeding in the global aircraft duopoly is anticipating and taking advantage of the competitor’s weaknesses.
Program Management

Dan Dumbacher
Biden’s pending jobs package must include the sector for its ability to boost future innovation.
Program Management