The Department of Defense has awarded contract actions worth $36.9M combined to Rolls-Royce and aircraft fuel technology provider Amfuel in a move to drive domestic production at the industrial-base level.

DynCorp International received a $46.9M contract modification to provide program management support to the U.S. Army's aviation field maintenance directorate in the world's east region.

Christian Zur of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Scott Kordella of Mitre wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that the U.S. needs to have a “single operational picture” to facilitate timely and accurate monitoring of aircraft and space systems and enable the space launch sector to safely coexist with the aviation industry.

The U.S. Army is looking for information on commercially available technologies to support the modernization of virtual aviation systems for joint all-domain operations.

L3Harris Technologies and Ansys are working with the U.S. Army to provide affordable, commercial products in line with the service branch’s aviation and missile technology goals.

General Electric’s aviation business developed a technology designed to speed up the production of pricing estimates for defense equipment and accelerate the acquisition process, Air Force Magazine reported Wednesday.

Drone Aviation has concluded the development and delivery of a plug and play video distribution update kit that works to support a mobile aerostat platform built by the company.

Drone Aviation Holding has delivered new aerostat units to a prime contractor for an effort with U.S Customs and Border Protection.

Drone Aviation Holding has appointed executives David Aguilar and Dan Erdberg to fill the roles of former chairman and CEO Jay Nussbaum who recently passed away.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has partnered with Pratt and Whitney and AAR to help veterans enter the commercial aviation workforce.

The Federal Aviation Administration has presented Northrop Grumman with the Diamond Award of Excellence, which recognizes the company's FAA-certified repair station that employs aviation maintenance professionals who have completed a training series. Northrop said Monday its facility in Rolling Meadows, Ill., received the recognition for the ninth straight year and more than 40 company employees also accepted individual awards from the agency.

CAE and aerospace training firm Aviation Performance Solutions have partnered to deploy the latter’s flight recovery simulator to CAE’s Dothan Training Center in Alabama in an effort to expand training to civilian turboprop pilots.