Audrey Allison, vice president for global spectrum management at Boeing, has been appointed to chair the Satellite Industry Association's board of directors. Ross Vincenti, associate general counsel at Intelsat, will support Allison as SIA's vice chair while Spire Global General Counsel Ananda Martin will manage the trade association's financial assets as treasurer, SIA said Tuesday.
Read More »HII’s Unmanned Tech Center of Excellence Completes Initial Construction Phase; Andy Green Quoted
Huntington Ingalls Industries has finished construction of a 22K-square-foot building that will be part of the military shipbuilder's new campus in Hampton, Virginia, for the prototyping, manufacturing and testing of unmanned technology platforms. “Opening this initial facility immediately expands our unmanned systems capability and helps support the increasing needs of our customers who defend our national security,” said Andy Green, president of HII's technical solutions division and two-time Wash100 Award recipient.
Read More »NASA Orders Six More Boeing-Made Solar Arrays for ISS
Boeing will provide six more solar arrays for the International Space Station under a sustainment contract modification with NASA. The company said Monday it will deliver the arrays to boost ISS's power supply with over 120 kilowatts of solar electricity that will be used to power its systems and equipment and support public and private experiments and research in the station.
Read More »Report: Aircraft Demand, UAV Adoption to Drive Aerospace 3D Printing Market’s Growth Through 2027
A new Research and Markets forecast says increasing demand for new aircraft and use of unmanned aerial vehicles worldwide will be among the factors that will drive 3D printing growth in the aerospace sector over the next seven years. The global market for aerospace 3D printers reached a value of $1.12B last year and is projected to experience a 25.3 percent compound annual growth rate to hit $6.81B by 2027.
Read More »Boeing Clears Critical Design Review for SLS Exploration Upper Stage
Boeing has wrapped up a critical design review for the exploration upper stage of a rocket built in support of NASA's Artemis I mission, and will now begin its transition to hardware build phase.
Read More »Boeing Inks 25-Year Lease Deal for Expanded MRO Ops in Jacksonville
Boeing plans to expand the operations of its maintenance, repair and overhaul site near Cecil Airport in Florida through a 25-year lease agreement with the Jacksonville Aviation Authority.
Read More »USAF Taps Boeing to Provide F-15 EW System Spares for Qatar
Boeing has secured a $46.9M contract with the U.S. Air Force to provide digital electronic warfare system spares for Qatar's F-15 aircraft. The company will deliver these items under a foreign military sales agreement between USAF and Qatar Emiri Air Force, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Read More »Boeing Wins $80M USAF Contract for F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Production
Boeing has landed a six-year, $79.6M contract from the U.S. Air Force to commence the low-rate initial production of an electronic warfare system designed for the F-15 aircraft.
Read More »Army Issues Presolicitation for Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Program
The U.S. Army has announced its intent to seek proposals for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program, Defense News reported Thursday.
Read More »NASA, Boeing Plan to Conduct for Second Starliner Uncrewed Flight Test in Late March
Boeing and NASA have scheduled the second uncrewed test flight of the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station for March 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket.
Read More »Boeing, Navy Fly MQ-25 UAS With Cobham-Built Refueling Pod
The U.S. Navy and Boeing have tested the aerodynamics of an MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system that features a Cobham-built aerial refueling store mounted on the vehicle wing structure.
Read More »Raytheon Technologies, Boeing-SparkCognition JV Form Airspace Mgmt Tech Integration Partnership
Raytheon Technologies and a joint venture between Boeing and SparkCognition have partnered to combine their respective air traffic controller technologies in an effort to support the Federal Aviation Administration and its international counterparts.
Read More »Space Industry Vet Jim Simpson Named Virgin Orbit Chief Strategy Officer
Jim Simpson, a board member at Virgin Orbit since May 2019, has been named chief strategy officer of the small satellite launch services provider. Virgin Orbit said Monday Simpson's space industry career will help the company stay focused on addressing customer requirements in the government and commercial launch sectors.
Read More »Millennium Space Systems Deploys Smallsats to Demo Tether Tech for Orbital Debris Mitigation
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary launched two small satellites as part of a controlled flight experiment to demonstrate a technology designed to help address orbital debris congestion. The DRAGRACER satellites took off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle Nov. 19 to demonstrate a deployable tether technology designed to help low-Earth orbit satellites quickly return to the Earth's surface.
Read More »Boeing Demos Autonomous Aircraft Teaming System for Australian Gov’t
Boeing and the government of Queensland in Australia have concluded a 10-day flight test involving five autonomous surrogate aircraft that operate as part of the company’s airpower teaming system.
Read More »