AI & AutonomyBoeing and Shield AI Explore Bringing AI-Enabled Autonomy to Military Aircraft Boeing on Wednesday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shield AI to explore leveraging the latter company’s capabilities in artificial intelligence and autonomy for autonomously piloting aircraft to military platforms. Shield AI’s…
CommercialWeSky Launches Lightweight 60W In-Seat Power System WeSky, an avionics company based in Lithuania, announced the launch of a new lightweight in-seat power system this week. The WeSky 60W USB power supply solution is called “recharge” and it can…
RegulationDebate About 737 MAX Retrofits Continues as Deadline Approaches There is perhaps no aircraft more scrutinized in modern aviation than the Boeing 737 MAX. The aircraft, which is the fourth generation of the 737 family, offers increased fuel efficiency and a…
MilitaryAppropriations Bills Provide $194 Million for F-15 Upgrades House and Senate appropriators in their committee-approved versions of the fiscal 2023 defense appropriations bill provide more than $194 million for upgrades to Boeing [BA] F-15 aircraft. Lawmakers have yet to take…
ConnectivityCyber Incident Impacts Boeing Subsidiary Jeppesen’s Flight Planning Tools On Nov. 2, Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary, was affected by an aviation cyber incident. For thousands of pilots across the world, there was some disruption to flight planning as a result of…
ConnectivitySeamless Air Alliance Establishes Research Lab for IFC Performance Measurement LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Seamless Air Alliance revealed last week that a new research laboratory for measuring in-flight connectivity (IFC) performance has been established. United Airlines, Safran, Boeing, JetBlue, AT&T, Thales,…
AI & AutonomyWisk Unveils Its 6th-Generation Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft Wisk Aero just revealed its 6th-generation air taxi, an autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The company claims that this vehicle, which is its go-to-market aircraft, is the first autonomous…
Embedded AvionicsL3Harris Mission Management Processors Added to Open-Systems Design of Boeing T-7A L3Harris Technologies is supplying its mission-management processors to Boeing for the T-7A Red Hawk under a recently announced $91.5 million contract. The processors will be added to the open systems embedded computing…
AI & AutonomyBoeing and Wisk Release Concept of Operations for Urban Air Mobility in the U.S. Boeing and electric air taxi developer Wisk unveiled a concept of operations this week that includes recommendations for deploying and integrating urban air mobility (UAM) in the United States. Wisk, which is…
MilitaryUS Air Force Plans to Move Forward on MH-139A Developmental Testing Boeing has received the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Supplemental Type Certifications (STCs) for the company’s MH-139A Grey Wolf to enter developmental testing, the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson…
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