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The industry’s long-term outlook is robust.

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Supply chain and sustainability challenges are real, but the industry’s long-term outlook is robust. Listen in as PwC’s Scott Thompson looks beyond the headlines.
 
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Brian Everstine

The U.S. State Department on Aug. 2 approved two major air defense sales to nations in the Middle East: a possible $3.05 billion sale of MIM-104E Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and a possible $2.245 billion sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missiles to the United Arab Emirates.
 
Mixed gas charging and requires special equipment to safely handle and generate high-pressures with a variety of gases and refrigerants, and do so reliably, time and time again.
 
From first ‘over-horizon’ strike in Kabul shows future of MQ-9 operations to NASA updates private astronaut mission requirements. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.
 
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Joseph Navin

The milestone was marked at EAA AirVenture 2022 with flying displays with aircraft ranging from Douglas C-47 transports and "Doc," one of only two B-29s that are still flying, to an aerobatic display involving Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters.
 
 
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Irene Klotz

NASA had hoped to one day parlay the technologies developed to demonstrate powered flight on Mars into operational missions. But engineers on the ongoing Ingenuity helicopter program did not expect to do so in the next 18 months.
 
Ben Goldstein

The pending acquisition of Spirit Airlines by JetBlue Airways could reshape the competitive landscape in the U.S. domestic airline market—but whether regulators will sign off on the pact remains an open question.
 
Brian Everstine

The idea of collecting solar power in space and beaming it down to Earth at a large scale is not new—science fiction author Isaac Asimov is credited with popularizing it in “Reason,” a 1941 short story, and several nations have been testing relevant technologies and outlining plans in recent decades.
 
Brian Everstine

The Pentagon has traditionally followed a slow slog to delivery of new space systems, bogged down by requirements reviews, acquisition timelines and red tape. 
 
Sash Tusa

Veteran attendees of the two big European air shows in the last decade have become used to a plethora of orders for civil aircraft but rather fewer announcements relating to new orders for military aircraft or changes to the status of existing programs, which more often follow individual countries’ defense budget and political cycles.
 
 
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Find out what resilience means to industry leaders during times of geopolitical conflict, increased maintenance costs, escalating fuel prices, climate concerns, lagging recovery in Asia, staff shortages, supply chain challenges and a lack of trust in international travel.
How should we adapt business models to be prepared for this uncertainty?
 
 
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