Program Management

The emerging technology of Generative Design, especially Topology Optimization, is gaining interest in product development communities. Product development teams face numerous challenges when it comes to modern product design.

Stratolaunch Systems rolled out its giant twin-fuselage, air-launch rocket carrier aircraft in California for more preflight tests on Aug 3.

Combining Japan’s aircraft-building businesses would save engineering, equipment and marketing costs, MHI says. Management expenses might be reduced, too.

Gulfstream Aerospace said its G600 business jet has begun FAA certification field performance testing.

Boeing is storing up to 40 unfinished aircraft on a taxiway at Renton, Washington, airport, which puts limits on Runway 16/34.

The Pentagon is proposing a four-pronged approach for the U.S. military’s future in space.

The head of the Pentagon’s research and engineering arm says it is premature to determine if the country’s hypersonics technology programs are redundant.

Cumulative problems with late and incomplete fuselages, a shortage of skilled mechanics and the late arrival of CFM engines are continuing to cause production problems for Boeing’s 737, deliveries of which are not expected to recover until the end of the year, the company said.

In the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, some speculate that the Joint Strike Fighter’s price will be comparable to legacy aircraft.

Congress has decided not to force the U.S. Air Force to pursue Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization.

A propellant leak during a June test firing of launch abort engines developed for Boeing’s Commercial Crew CST-100 Starliner is delaying the company’s pad abort test at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.

Boeing’s new midmarket airplane plan spurs Airbus to accelerate development of Airbus’ longest-range narrowbody.

Proposed Boeing-Embraer joint venture will go beyond the product-based Airbus acquisition of Bombardier’s C Series, say executives.

Changing threat prompting aggressive time lines for British-led sixth-generation combat aircraft.

The UK is taking a "build it and they will come" approach with Tempest - its vision for a multinational fighter. Watch as Aviation Week's Tony Osborne looks at the technologies on the concept unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow.

France is taking the lead in Franco-German efforts to produce a new European fighter aircraft. The widely expected decision was inked by French and German defense ministers as they moved to further underpin defense industrial relationships between the two countries.

GE Aviation is highlighting its Open Flight Deck concept with the first public showing of an “integrated, open” avionics demonstrator at this year’s Farnborough Airshow.

Reusable spaceplane under development by Boeing aims to launch 3,000 lb. to low Earth orbit for $5 million.

Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR-22 engine, built from spare space shuttle main engine components, has been test-fired 10 times in less than 10 days.

Airbus hopes to secure “several hundred" additional orders for the newly renamed A220—formerly the Bombardier C Series—this year, according to Eric Schulz, Airbus' chief commercial officer.

The Pentagon completed the first comprehensive IOT&E for the Northrop Grumman-manufactured MQ-8C Fire Scout aboard Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado.

UK Rapid Capability Office is speeding up the introduction of new capabilities.

Embraer prepares to present its E2 family at the Farnborough Airshow.

NASA chief puts partisan past behind, shares thoughts on the future of the U.S. space agency.

The USMC has decided to remove the first F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical landing fighter from its inventory after determining a repair was not justified.