Program Management

By Tony Osborne
Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.
A&D Week 2020

By Graham Warwick
Renewable hydrogen will play a key role in supporting the EU’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050 by reducing emissions from hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as aviation, according to the European Commission’s Hydrogen Strategy unveiled on July 8.
Emerging Technologies

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force has received nominations from 26 states to become the future home of U.S. Space Command (Spacecom).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Part-cruise missile and part-unmanned aircraft system, Skyborg is set to redefine air combat operations.
A&D Week 2020

By Tony Osborne
The British government is to make a $500 million investment in the failed communications satellite company OneWeb.
Space

By Bill Carey
“We’re taking a very aggressive position right now, in trying to get more and more companies into the standard airworthiness process,” the head of FAA's UAS Integration Office said July 1.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Byron Callan
A silver lining of the pandemic is the Federal Reserve’s aggressive lowering of interest rates, which makes federal debt more affordable.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey, Guy Norris
The FAA has authorized Boeing to begin certification flight testing of the grounded 737 MAX with an updated flight-control system.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Fuel cells may be more suited to smaller commercial aircraft, while larger ones would retain turbine engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA is looking into flying astronauts and other personnel aboard commercial suborbital spacecraft such as those in development by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin.
Program Management

By Steve Trimble
A sources-sought notice released by the U.S. Army June 23 keeps the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft competition on track for the release of the request for proposals next year and lays out new details of aircraft deliveries needed during the development phase and the first lot of low-rate initial production.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Development, assembly and test of XB-1 proving to be more than sum of its parts for Boom as a step toward follow-on supersonic transport.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Boeing has told its primary 737 supplier Spirit AeroSystems to produce only 72 shipsets this year.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The Space Development Agency must submit a detailed plan to use commercial satellites as a service in the future National Defense Space Architecture, a panel of lawmakers say.
Space

By Alex Derber
While many MRO providers have started to furlough, lay-off or short-time workers, the full impact of the crisis is yet to be felt, with many analysts
Program Management

By Jen DiMascio, Graham Warwick, Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
From a competition among the world’s militaries to create weapons that can hit targets 1,000 mi. away within minutes, to innovations that could enable rapid civilian travel from New York to Hong Kong and multi-stage access to space, the pursuit of hypersonic technologies are pushing the limits of national budgets and the laws of physics.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Satellites and interceptors for hypersonic defense are in development, but fielding strategy remains mostly unfunded.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
Growing demands from airframe, mission systems drive Joint Program Office to plot a propulsion revamp.
Program Management

By Mark Carreau
The design concept for the habitation and logistics elements of the lunar-orbiting Gateway that NASA is pursuing under a $187 million contract with Northrop Grumman has a significant heritage in the evolving Cygnus resupply mission spacecraft that have so far launched and berthed successfully to the International Space Station 13 times since September 2013.
Program Management

By Thierry Dubois
Carriers and aircraft manufacturers worry that the fear of virus propagation may prevent travel eagerness from growing back to profitable levels
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Aviation Week analysis suggests recovery may be faster and stronger than after the last world crisis.
Business Aviation

By Kevin Michaels
Lurking beneath the surface are enormous supply chain risks that extend well beyond supplier viability and attrition.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—The UK will launch a new tender for coastguard aviation services in 2021 with a focus on increased use of fixed-wing and unmanned platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Agency plans to integrate reviews into formal certification process.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
The 160th Special Operations Regiment is eager to shed hand-me-down fleets, but will Army decisions let them?
Aircraft & Propulsion