The Department of Energy has selected five teams that will receive funding to further develop their technology platforms and tools designed to mitigate aviation emissions. The teams will get $10 million in funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s exploratory topic titled Predictive Real-time Emissions Technologies Reducing Aircraft Induced Lines in the Sky or PRE-TRAILS […] More

The Department of Energy has selected five teams that will receive funding to further develop their technology platforms and tools designed to mitigate aviation emissions. Boeing, GE Research, Northrop Grumman, RTX and the Universities Space Research Association will be funded through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energys exploratory topic titled Predictive Real-time Emissions Technologies Reducing Aircraft Induced Lines in the Sky or PRE-TRAILS. More

The Department of Energy has selected five teams that will receive funding to further develop their technology platforms and tools designed to mitigate aviation emissions. Boeing, GE Research, Northrop Grumman, RTX and the Universities Space Research Association will be funded through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energys exploratory topic titled Predictive Real-time Emissions Technologies Reducing Aircraft Induced Lines in the Sky or PRE-TRAILS. More

Valiant will help the Defense Logistics Agency manage chemical materials at two military aviation maintenance facilities in Corpus Christi, Texas, under a $50.8 million contract. The award covers chemical management support to the DLA Distribution Corpus Christi, which handles wholesale component distribution for helicopter repair operations, and the Corpus Christi Army Depot, the company said […] More

Boeing is preparing the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft for flight testing ahead of its delivery to the service branch later in 2023. The defense contractor shared in a Linked post published Thursday that the F-15EX Eagle II multirole strike fighter has been moved from its factory to the ramp to prepare for its […] More

Advanced Technology International has received a $77 million contract from the Department of Defense’s Test and Resources Management Center to work on the Fifth Generation Aerial Target prototype project, Aviation Week reported Wednesday. ATI will act as the manufacturing prime contractor to Sierra Technical Services, which built the 5GAT aerial target prototype that crashed in […] More

General Dynamics’ NASSCO subsidiary has begun building the sixth vessel for the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Sea Base program. Named after a Medal of Honor recipient and Korean War veteran, the future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. will serve as a mobile sea base supporting multiple military operations, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Friday. “The ship […] More

The U.S. Army awarded Parry Labs two task orders to help implement a modular open systems approach to the service branch’s aviation hardware and software operating environments. The contracts are part of the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium MOSA agreement, the company said Thursday. The project involves deploying an Aviation Mission Computing Environment for future […] More

A Griffon Aerospace unmanned aerial system equipped with a computing device from Parry Labs has flown at a Huntsville, Alabama, private airfield. The recent flight of Valiant, Griffon’s tactical UAS offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System competition, included the Edge Compute Micro technology, Parry Labs said Monday. EC Micro is powered […] More

GE Aerospace developed a computational fluid dynamics software that could be paired with the Department of Energy’s supercomputer, Frontier, to support engine development.  The company said Saturday it conducted simulations on Frontier using the software to evaluate the performance of a novel open fan engine architecture, which is showing promise in helping reduce carbon emissions […] More

Boeing has released for public use a data modeling tool designed to analyze the lifecycle of alternative sources of energy for aviation and measure the ability to reduce aviation’s carbon emissions. The Boeing Cascade Climate Impact Model can be accessed on the company’s Sustainable Aerospace Together hub and could help measure aircraft fleet renewal and […] More

Ensco will exhibit its products and services for human machine interface as well as airworthiness safety and security at the U.S. Army’s Aviation Mission Solutions Summit. The engineering company said Wednesday that it will feature the IData HMI toolkit, IDataMap 2D and 3D digital mapping platform and IGL software graphics renderer. Ensco’s certification services are […] More