Diversified portfolios due to consolidation and similar spending on R&D by large contractors may be part of the answer.

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.

The global market for Earth observation services, data and intelligence is booming, expected to reach $8 billion by 2029, according to Euroconsult. Though more than half of that market is driven by defense needs, a growing number of small satellite companies and government initiatives are monitoring environmental change from space and pulling down more and more data that sheds light on how humans can better protect the planet. See a small sampling of efforts underway to do just that.

In aviation, cybersecurity may be literally a matter of life or death, and the traditional cybersecurity approaches are insufficient when protecting against advanced threats.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson faces no shortage of challenges, from revamping how aircraft are certified to integrating commercial space and unmanned aerial vehicle operations into the U.S. National Airspace System.

Watch the webinar as Dickson and Aviation Week editors discuss the events and technological milestones that are shaping the agency’s agenda.

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.

If presidents and prime ministers cannot conduct their business via Zoom, they should lift the travel rules they impose on their citizens but cannot comply with themselves.

Michael Griffin, former NASA administrator and head of R&D for the Pentagon, reflects on acquisition reform and hypersonic technology.

Many countries in the region are making little progress in reopening borders as vaccination rates lag.

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