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Three factors affecting supply chain

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The coming weeks and months will be full of big announcements about business changes. Here are three factors affecting A&D supply chains.
 
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Sean Broderick

Boeing has tapped Mark Jenks to lead a new Airplane Programs organization that the company expects to ensure both consistency and efficiency throughout its core commercial aircraft production efforts—one of several changes announced by the company’s leadership aimed at aligning similar businesses.
 
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Irene Klotz

Encouraged by progress in the Commercial Crew program, NASA should nonetheless expand planning for staffing the International Space Station long-term to provide options, NASA’s safety oversight panel said on April 23.
 
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Tony Osborne

Britain’s Royal Navy is postponing the sailing of the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier for a planned training deployment so that its crew can be tested for COVID-19.
 
Steve Trimble

The U.S. Air Force completed a second round of Skyborg tests in March on a new flying testbed aircraft, but further flights are on hold due to schedule disruption caused by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the service announced on April 22.
 
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Irene Klotz

The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.
 
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NASA appoints executive to oversee CASIS, reorganizes commercial programs.
 
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