Emerging Technologies

Elon Musk startled an Air Force audience by declaring fighters dead, but his opinion isn’t far off current acquisition strategy.

Triton production halted; Maxar sees geospatial services growth: FAA certifies training simulator and issues with nuclear modernization.

More than 50,000 respondents have commented on the FAA’s notice of proposed rulemaking.

Satellite communications (satcom) terminal supplier Isotropic Systems will license components of its optical multi-beamforming antenna technology to aerospace and defense companies to build products “capable of unleashing a new era of inflight connectivity.”

With thousands of satellites expected to launch in the next 10 years, the U.S. is trying to prevent orbital mayhem.

Hybrid-electric 50-seater; medical delivery eVTOL; South Korea targets UAM; Electric commuter; Climate research.

A streamlined company aims to grow its strength in space services.

FAA certification was anticipated by the end of 2019 but has not occurred yet.

Taking its cue from commercial venture capitalists, the Air Force is revamping the technology investment process.

Somewhere in Australia, Boeing and partners are building a loyal-wingman drone. A photo of a fuselage major assembly reveals details.

A new U.S. military assessment adds a hypersonic glide vehicle to China’s nuclear weapons portfolio.

Having placed a bet on the return of supersonic air travel by becoming a supplier on Aerion’s AS2 business jet, aerostructures specialist Spirit AeroSystems is putting down a marker on the emerging urban air mobility industry.

Spirit’s eVTOL tieup; electrified commuter aircraft; kitplane-based MALE flies; Volocopter raises more funds; Sweden’s electric aviation.

Ukrainian engineers are helping Chinese industry with the study of engine designs.

In a breakthrough use of computer vision, Airbus makes swift progress in its autonomous takeoff-and-landing project.

The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.

Long-running blended wing body studies have so far come to nothing, but Airbus may have the technology to bring it to reality.

DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.

A radically modified demonstrator made its first flight in May 2019, but it has come to light only now after video was posted on social media.

Leonardo Helicopters CEO says AW609 is on right path, as certification nears.

Spanish technology company Indra is introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to its air traffic control (ATC) remote towers to allow a greater degree of scrutiny of both air and ground movements.

Next-Generation Interceptors could be emplaced in the ground by the end of the decade.

Advancing Asian UAM; removing space debris; fuel could help in gusts; measuring X-59’s shocks; DLR’s new Falcon testbed.

Flight test exposed Starliner software glitches, but NASA is more concerned about what else may be lurking in process flaws.

Boeing steers the new airliner project design concept to counter nearer-term competition from the Airbus A321XLR.