Aviation Week & Space Technology

Bombardier has replaced its vice president of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner. Ross Mitchell, previously in both business and commercial aircraft sales, last week succeeded Philippe Poutissou. Bombardier also has named company veteran Jean Seguin as president of the Aerostructures & Engineering Services business, which was formed in July when the company split the unit off from its Business and Commercial Aircraft segments.

The European Union is preparing to launch its first fully operational Galileo navigation, positioning and timing satellites Aug. 22, putting the 28-nation body in line to compete with the U.S. GPS, Russian Glonass and Chinese Beidou systems, even as it finalizes details of Galileo’s use.

The U.K. Royal Air Force has put its new RC-135W Rivet Joint into action for the first time. The aircraft, which was quietly forward-deployed in July, is supporting Operation Shader, the U.K.’s humanitarian operation in northern Iraq, providing intelligence on Islamic State fighters who have taken over major parts of northeastern Iraq. The aircraft is likely to be operating alongside U.S. Air Force Rivet Joints from Al-Udeid AB in Qatar. The RAF has two more RC-135s on order, the type formally entered service in May.

A new approach to supercomputing could be required to tackle aerospace’s hard problems

Improving human-machine interaction crucial as systems become more complex and automated

Tokyo eyes additional large aviation-capable ship

Commercial Crew bidders hint at future directions as NASA selection looms

Look for it later, or now?

Tight government budgets and commercial potential drive tiny spacecraft to powerful capabilities

Core stage preparations continue as momentum builds for test and assembly of first SLS

From on-demand to mass transit, aviation looks to technology to widen its appeal

Continental Motors is changing its status on the global aviation stage at breakneck speed.

Numerical simulation set to expand beyond aircraft design, into lifetime monitoring

In a sweeping review, Finmeccanica weighs units to be kept or discarded

UCAV feasiblity study renews French-British aerospace industry cooperation

Order cut derails premium long-haul foray

There is no autopilot for sustaining the industry’s culture of innovation

Long-feared A&D workforce transition has begun—with a twist

If minority outreach were a business project, it would have been shut down by now

Cutting-edge work lures A&D talent

Semiconductor technology is reaching fundamental limits, and the next step is not yet clear

Rising stars in aerospace and defense

Numerous questions must be answered before we can be confident that the most costly weapons procurement in history is back on course.

David Glass (see photo) has become manager of FlightSafety International’s Learning Center in St. Louis, a regional operations manager and overseer of the Learning Center in Seattle. He was manager of the Houston Learning Center and has been succeeded by Jeremy Pisell (see photo), who was assistant manager of the Tucson (Arizona) Learning Center. Glass follows Angie Gremard, who is now relationship manager for FlightSafety’s regional airline customers and an assistant manager in St.

Tameika N. Hollis (see photo) has become vice president-engineering, manufacturing and logistics for the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Div. of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Baltimore-based Electronic Systems sector. She was director of passive radio-frequency programs in the Intelligence, Surveilllance and Reconnaissance and Targeting Systems Div.