CommercialWhat is Beyond Next-Gen in Aviation? A panel of aviation industry experts discussed cutting-edge technologies and where the industry needs to evolve at the Air Traffic Control Association's annual Blue Skies event on Thursday. On the menu were…
MilitaryDARPA Seeks 'Mosaic Warfare' Approach to Future Conflicts The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) wants the Department of Defense (DOD) to fully embrace its “mosaic” warfare approach to modernizing how its air, land, sea, space and cyber domains engage…
CommercialDo Airports Need to Be Mandated to Adopt Cybersecurity Practices? Cybersecurity standards and best practices don’t appear to be widely adopted by airports and, given pervasive cyber threats, Congress should consider directing the adoption of these standards across the aviation industry, an…
RegulationFAA: How to Fly High Under Part 107 If you want an FAA waiver to fly a Part 107 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) over the normal limit of 400 feet, you better be familiar with your operating airspace and ready…
MilitaryF-35 AESA: The Most Advanced Jet's Biggest Antenna Active electronically scanned arrays (AESA) date back more than 20 years, but the F-35’s Northrop Grumman-built AN-APG-81 AESA is unlike any of its predecessors. The AESA is "the biggest antenna on any…
MilitaryF-35 AGCAS: Flying Itself out of Harm's Way “It takes three years to build a fighter jet; it takes 26 years to build a fighter pilot. I can give you the price of an F-35, but … You can't put…
MilitaryF-35 Data Fusion: How the Smartest Fighter Shares What it Sees The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II’s calling card is being a mobile sensor package that can the effectiveness of an entire fleet — an entire military front — by sharing data and…
MilitaryF-35: How the Trillion-Dollar Program Got Here and Where It's Going Seven years ago, the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program—the fifth-generation, multi-role stealth fighter—was close to being canceled. Now its creators are focused on changes for the next generation and…
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