Saab has waded into the political spat surrounding the British government’s decision to enter sole-source negotiations with Boeing to buy AEW radar aircraft.
Boeing has pushed back an announcement over pursuing the New Midsize Aircraft (NMA) until sometime in 2019, but increasingly, financial analysts are seeing the new aircraft as a fait accompli.
TAP Express CEO Valter Fernandes used the podium at MRO Europe in Amsterdam to call for action on long aviation lead times, saying the industry has lost its edge because innovation is too slow and expensive.
House and Senate Democrats differ on how the U.S. military should operate in space, and an influential Senate lawmaker is advocating for a combatant command similar to U.S. Cyber Command.