Low bids propped up by its commercial airplane business helped Boeing snare $25 billion in military contracts including the T-X, MQ-25 and MH-139 competitions. But could the OEM’s strategy backfire in the long run? Aviation Week editors and Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia break it down.
Staged deployment of an ADS-B network will bring new capabilities to the country’s ATC system, although some aircraft operators are concerned about cost.
Latest FMF deal with Israel begins, Bulgaria’s fighter competition begins, Lockheed’s new Hellfire contract and Russia developing self-guided artillery.
Gary Dempsey, the National Air Transportation Association’s new president, has a full range of issues to address and resolve, especially illegal charters.
The MiG-31 interceptor has taken on new tasks as the Kinzhal ground-strike system and as an aerospace missile system that can deliver small satellites to orbit or fight enemy satellites.
Increasingly, it matters where an aerospace company decides to base manufacturing, and new rankings parse the best from the rest, starting with Washington state.
Technology needs to be proven carefully, but the service should not risk losing funds budgeted for a multidomain command-and-control system of networks.
Some industry watchers are concerned that a provision of a bill clearing the way for the FAA to regulate minimum seat sizes could allow Congress to overstep its bounds.
