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Wars—and pandemics—accelerate change. Long-established air-medical companies gain more work, but also more competitors, as business aircraft operators step in to provide extra evacuation and repatriation flights.
 
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space has a new alliance of innovation leaders poised to efficiently update, expand and secure an aging airspace network architecture—and enable the FAA to maximize flexibility and minimize cost.
 
Piotr Butowski

A Russian military flight test center celebrated its 100th anniversary on Sept. 29 by publishing a video showing the flight of a group of four Su-57 fighters, one of which carried two R-77M medium-range air-to-air missiles that had not been seen before.
 
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GE Aviation: Building a world that works
 
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Boeing ATS may be assembled in Queensland, L3Harris, SpaceX win SDA satellite contracts, Electronic warfare prominent in Japanese budget request Northrop Grumman cargo vessel reaches ISS and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news.
 
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Guy Norris

As ETOPS runs for 777X GE9X engine get underway, GE sets sights on flow-inducer validation tests.
 
Tony Osborne

Preparation for the information age means a generational change for the operating concept of the British Armed Forces.
 
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Interservice Roles Dispute Erupts As Army Defines Vision For Long-Range Targeting
 
Irene Klotz

Recovering, reflying SpaceX Falcon 9s will save Space Force $53 million.
 
 
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The move to cloud-native open architecture is foreseen as a means of receiving feedback and implementing fixes to maintenance and logistics information systems in just a matter of weeks thus saving time and significant costs. The desire is to save thousands of man hours annually. How does this work? What are the advantages across the board and what are the challenges?