Program Management

The first year’s production of Textron Aviation’s $4.8 million Cessna Denali is now sold out, the company says.

Aurora acquisition gives Boeing pole position in initial subsonic X-plane risk-reduction contracts.

In this week’s Washington Outlook: Continued delays could impact precision weapons buys, T-X contract award, new nominees to the Export-Import Bank and the fate of the Space Corps.

Supersonic business jet developer Spike Aerospace is poised to begin flight tests of a scaled, proof-of-concept demonstrator.

European Aviation Network to begin commercial service on a British Airways Airbus A321 later this year with service that uses ground and space-based assets.

The C919 program has had many issues since first flight, Comac's chief designer told Aviation Week.

Striker 2 helmet could bring augmented reality into the Typhoon cockpit.

Pratt & Whitney has completed a key step in the development of next-generation fighter propulsion technology.

The French engine-maker says turbofan improvements will continue while parallel studies of hybrid and all-electric propulsion studies ramp up.

The Chinese understand that what will make or break their industry is what happens in the middle of the value chain, at the component and subsystem levels.

The U.S. private sector is poised to partner with NASA, academia and others to unleash lunar resources capable of expanding the global economic sphere on par with the Industrial Revolution, top executives told a House Space panel.

Europe’s Clean Sky research program drops plan to flight-test Safran’s open-rotor engine as market interest shifts to other concepts.

Airbus launches a project at its Silicon Valley outpost to help fundamentally redefine air traffic management to enable new types and uses of aircraft.

Multi-industry companies armed with knowledge of infrastructure, robotics and AI are betting that their broad expertise can win them a share of the burgeoning robotic inspection market.

The Pentagon is looking to bring “agile” processes from the commercial world to the F-22 and F-35 programs.

Boeing could lose its position as prime contractor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system if the U.S. agency adopts a new acquisition strategy.

Boeing and Airbus working to meet Qantas challenge to develop an aircraft to fly Sydney-London nonstop

A340 MSN001, modified to be the Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator for Europe (BLADE), will soon begin a flight-test campaign to show that laminar flow can reduce fuel burn.

“The [spacecraft's] heat shield did not separate, as a result of which the satellite didn’t complete the fourth stage,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.

Major acquisitions can take an enormous amount of time to achieve. A UTC/Rockwell deal would be in the very early stages of discussion.

Computers in spacecraft trade performance for reliability in a harsh environment, but BAE Systems has narrowed the gap between terrestrial and spaceborne processing with its latest generation of radiation-hardened processor.

The U.S. Air Force is eyeing more powerful, fuel-efficient engines for extended range and increased stealth as key requirements for its next air superiority fighter.

Avionics used to be closed systems, but the coming of broadband connectivity on board has prompted a rebirth of new architectures to reap the benefits of an open system.

Analysts say that aerospace manufacturing investments in low-cost countries peaked in the 2008-13 and declined significantly in the past three years.

Low-cost satellite constellations provide alternative systems for gathering key weather and other data.