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This year’s awards honor 18 individuals, companies and programs in four categories.
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Continuing a 65-year tradition of honoring innovators, extraordinary achievements and exemplary leadership in the aerospace, defense and aviation industries, Aviation Week’s editors announce the winners of the 2022 Laureate Awards. This year’s awards honor 18 individuals, companies and programs in four categories—Commercial Aviation, Space, Defense and Business Aviation—as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards for two exceptional industry leaders.
 
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As Farnborough bursts back onto the global events scene, advanced air mobility - a market that has gained in prominence over the pandemic - is high on the agenda.
 
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Jens Flottau, Guy Norris

The Farnborough International Airshow was overloaded with expectations—after all, it was the first of the big air shows to occur since Paris in 2019, so just reconnecting with people was going to be a big thing.
 
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As Airbus evaluates advanced propulsion options for its next narrowbody, the airframer has agreed with CFM International to flight-test on an A380 the open-fan propulsion system being developed under the engine-maker’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engine (RISE) program.
 
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Tony Osborne

Industry has begun building a demonstrator for the UK’s Tempest Future Combat Air System that will derisk the technologies to enable rapid development of a UK-led combat aircraft for the 2040s.
 
 
 
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Steve Trimble,  Tony Osborne, Brian Everstine

FARNBOROUGH—Having demonstrated its technological ability for uncrewed teaming systems with Australia’s Ghost Bat, Boeing is using its secretive Phantom Works arm to study the ability of future similar programs to operate independently of a connected crewed aircraft and be on call when needed.
 
Guy Norris

As global activity in high-speed research and development accelerates, the UK Royal Air Force has revealed an ambitious plan to develop technology for reusable Mach 5-plus vehicles for the 2030s under the Hypersonic Air Vehicle Experimental (HVX) program.
 
 
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Join executives from across the A&D industry for pivotal discussions on changing government customer demands, global market conditions, supply chain issues, consolidation and program execution. Learn more and register today!
 
 
October 6-7, 2022 - Chicago, IL

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