No war can be won except by ground forces: Washington buzzes with that mantra, often from terminally degreed employees of academic institutions linked to the Army and Marines.
While most of the prime and top-tier suppliers that head to Mexico export assemblies and finished products back to their home factories or to customers, an increasing number of specialty suppliers are shipping within the country.
An article on page 28 of the print edition of the March 25 issue should have noted that the Pentagon is planning to select a non-deployed AN/TPY-2 radar for use in Japan to monitor North Korean ballistic missile launches, adding to the one already located in Shariki. Those deployed to Qatar, Turkey and Israel are not candidates for deployment in Japan. The article in the digital edition of the magazine was correct.
The U.S. Air Force could clear the Delta IV rocket for flight as soon as May as an investigation into a mishap with the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10B-2 upper stage winds down.
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One of Mexico's smallest states in area and population, Queretaro had a well-established industrial base in food processing, electronics, metals and automotive products in its eponymous capital city when the persistence of state officials caught the attention of Bombardier Aerospace in 2005.
Bill Peltola has been appointed Asia-Pacific senior director-aviation services for London-based Inmarsat. He held a senior level position at Panasonic Avionics Corp. in its Global Communications Services group.
Cindy Miller has been named president of Atlanta-based UPS's Europe division and Derek Woodward president of the Emerging Markets division, effective April 30. Miller, currently president of UPS U.K., Ireland and Nordics, succeeds Jim Barber, who was appointed president of UPS International. Woodward is president of the Global Integrations division.
Chihuahua, the capital of Mexico's largest state (also called Chihuahua), is a pioneer in aerospace manufacturing and a locus especially for general and business aviation original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). But in the past few years, growth has come courtesy of larger aircraft.
Glenn Gerstell, managing partner and head of Washington-based Milbank's global communications practice, has been named to the D.C. Homeland Security Commission by Washington Mayor Vincent Gray.
Bill Tillson, co-CEO of Encompass Digital Media, has been named 2013 Teleport Executive of the Year for the second consecutive year by the New York-based World Teleport Association. The honor is given to an individual for demonstrated entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation in the development or operation of a teleport-based business.
To counter the mounting number of cyberattacks, a group of senators led by Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are working on legislation urging the Pentagon to train members of the National Guard to respond to cyberthreats. The bill would establish Cyber Guard units in every state that could be activated by governors or the Defense Secretary and would draw on the private-sector information technology expertise of members of the National Guard. The bill is aimed at offsetting a shortage of cyberexperts across the government.
Open architecture is frequently a misnomer in avionics development, as proprietary elements often sneak in during design and prevent software from being truly reusable and portable between platforms.
So far, the SpaceX Dragon is the only commercial spacecraft flying to the International Space Station (ISS), but there will be more. A lot is riding on building a “New Space” economy off Earth: large fortunes, U.S. civil and military access to low Earth orbit, and the hopes of visionaries who want to see humankind expand into our Solar System. Articles on the path ahead begin on page 56. A member of the ISS Expedition 34 crew took this photo March 3 as his crewmates used the station's robotic arm to berth the SpaceX cargo carrier. NASA Johnson Space Center photo.
Capt. Scott Davies Delta Air Lines (Allentown, Pa. )
Most readers will likely agree that all of the optimization measures being undertaken by all of the commercial air transportation players in the North Atlantic are as welcome as they are overdue.
Success in the U.S. Army's growing catalog of work in linking unmanned and manned aviation assets could lead it to reduce reliance on helicopters, potentially impacting the planned buys of Boeing Apache AH-64Es and future Armed Aerial Scouts (AAS).
European Space Agency researchers evaluating a hypersonic concept demonstrator called Hexafly (high-speed experimental fly vehicles) are studying the potential of flight-testing two different scaled versions of the same Mach 8 vehicle. Hexafly aims to fast-track development of new hypersonic concepts by flight-testing a notional vehicle shape packed with advanced propulsion, structures and systems technologies (AW&ST Nov. 26, 2012. p. 46).
