Aerospace

Carmaker Hyundai has announced a UAM partnership with Uber and unveiled a full-scale mockup of its S-A1 eVTOL aircraft.

SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.

Petaluma, California-based Jump Aero is developing a small, fast, short-range vehicle for transporting first responders.

The aviation industry needs a robust, responsible Boeing.

James A. Viola to President and Chief Executive Officer of Helicopter Association International (HAI), VA (effective January 16).

Weeks into a rash of reported drone sightings in eastern Colorado and part of Nebraska, the FAA on Jan. 6 lacked an explanation for the reports or whether drones were actually involved.

JET PARTS ENGINEERING (Vance Street Capital), WA acquired AERO PARTS MART, TX to expand its PMA parts business.

BELCAN acquired Pacific Northwest-based BASE2 SOLUTIONS (technology consulting/engineering solutions) from Safran, advised by Mesirow Financial.

Claude Hurley was named Canada's new Permanent Representative to ICAO.

SMARTSKY NETWORKS, NC secured additional $25m financing from funds managed by BlackRock (now $100m) after making substantial progress on nationwide

Andrew G. Kireta Jr., VP-Market Development of Copper Development Association, began term as 2020 Chairman of ASTM International.

RADIANT POWER (HEICO) acquired business/assets of the human-machine interface (HMI) aircraft panel product line of Pacific Northwest-based SPECTRALUX

Years in development, the draft regulation would require small drones to send identification and positional data to the ground.

The Alliance Ground System program has faced off political, programmatic, legal and technical hurdles.

U.S. MDA is focused on intercepting shorter-range threats.

Airlines have seen fast growth since 2010, victims of their own success as fight against climate change moves to forefront.

Maturing technology and market lead Bell to redesign its Nexus eVTOL around all-electric propulsion for short-range intraurban flights.

Textron will not become a pure aerospace and defense (A&D) company in the near term.

Flirtey is preparing to begin routine food deliveries by drone within the largest industrial park in the U.S.

GLEBAR, NJ has acquired TRIDEX TECHNOLOGY, PA, which manufactures electrochemical grinders/cut off machines/precision abrasive cut off solutions.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.

BOEING $265.2m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract for Ground-based Midcourse Defense

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, 18,631 new, western-developed engines will be delivered for new military aircraft or as part of re-engining processes.

Celestia Technologies Group has acquired the satellite ground systems division of Antwerp Space,

U.S. Air Force is seeking information on commercial eVTOL vehicles that could be fielded within three years.