CFM International joint venture partners GE Aviation and Safran have launched an aggressive technology development program to pave the way for a new generation of fuel-efficient unducted—or open fan—engine to enter service around the mid-2030s.

While “digitalization” might mean different things to different people, we can all agree that digitalization is the process of taking paper-based information and processes and converting them into computer-based processes. It’s that simple – but you gain a competitive advantage through automating and transforming your business in the process.

A number of startups are moving toward operations, aiming to take some of the recovering demand away from established carriers.

From chemicals procurement to inventory optimization to life cycle management, Incora reduced complexity and increased reliability so that the customer could focus on its core manufacturing.

After years of development, the FAA is bringing to bear a new capability for tracking spacecraft.

CMC Electronics’ PU-3000 avionics computer is the world’s first multicore avionics computer certified to the highest Design Assurance Level. It can host multiple avionics applications reducing equipment count and integration costs and be used as a common computing platform able to host a variety of functions into a single unit.

Aviation Week editors spoke with Michael Griffin, the former undersecretary of defense for Research and Engineering and former NASA administrator, about his attempt to speed innovation at the Pentagon and where that effort may now be headed.

Electra unveils; Honeywell backs Lilium; EcoPulse testing; Electric trainer; eVTOL Casevac.

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