Program Management

Ground trials of fiber-optic-based rotor blade sensing technology could lead to flight trials in the coming years.

The loyal-wingman program with the Royal Australian Air Force is to culminate in an operational demonstration of Boeing’s ATS.

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the engine overhaul segment was as strong as any vertical market in commercial aviation.

Ask the Editors: The Pentagon’s hypersonic prototypes rely on a large number of small, boutique companies with highly specialized skills.

FRANKFURT—Airbus plans to increase its research into how health-protection technology inside passenger aircraft cabins can be improved, the OEM’s executive vice president of engineering Jean-Brice Dumont told Aviation Week.

NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.8 billion contract to manufacture 18 additional RS-25 engines to support Space Launch System flights to the Moon.

Both Boeing and Airbus are looking at what they can do to survive COVID-19’s impact, but it may also affect future airliner development.

It is critical that aerospace companies invest in strategic priorities now to ensure their long-term competitiveness.

A review finds a conflict between emergency procedures and maintenance instructions.

IT needs commercial vendors that understand the importance of cybersecurity on the ground as well as in space.

The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.

A Northrop Grumman-supplied cockpit upgrade for the U.S. Army’s UH-60 fleet has passed a key testing milestone ahead of a planned full-rate production decision, the company announced on April 22.

Practically everyone in commercial aerospace is scrambling to figure out how deep, and how long, COVID-19 will affect industry. Two longtime aerospace experts from consultancy Roland Berger, Manfred Hader and Robert Thomson, join Aviation Week senior business editor Michael Bruno on Check 6 to discuss what may occur.

As the airframers go, so goes the aircraft engine industry.

The Pentagon predicts there will be a three-month slowdown for major defense acquisition programs because of impacts related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The FAA plans to require Boeing 737 MAX operators to replace a poorly designed engine-access door component with an updated version.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for a crewed test flight of the Dragon 2 spacecraft to the International Space Station, the first human orbital space launch from the U.S. since the end of the shuttle program in 2011.

Deemed to be an essential service, defense manufacturing avoids pandemic shutdowns.

Citing the bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite communications company, the U.S. government should consider adding $2.5 billion in funding for space programs, along with multiple policy proposals to maintain the military space industrial base and U.S. strategic dominance in the domain in the face of threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry trade group recommends.

CPI Aerostructures announced April 13 that it closed on a $4.8 million loan under the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) as part of the new Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in the U.S.

Complex CHITA model allows engineers to test loads on different aerodynamic elements of high-speed rotorcraft configurations.

Small narrowbodies have been losing market share to larger aircraft but lower travel demand may mean a second chance.

One of many vulnerabilities exposed by the corona-crisis has been the fragility of globalized supply chains and the ‘just-in-time’ business model.

Boeing says it will fly a second uncrewed flight test of its CST-100 Starliner, following a troubled orbital debut in December.

The first proposed guidelines to ensure the safety of machine-learning systems in aircraft has resulted from a joint study by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Swiss artificial-intelligence (AI) startup Deadalean.