LA Times: Buddies have ‘awesome’ job trying to crack Boeing security

For two years, two young engineers have worked in a secluded unit where they design and thoroughly test ironclad security systems for Boeing. Boeing’s systems need to be capable of staving off hackers and keeping safe some of the nation’s most prized intellectual property

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General Atomics Pushes Predator B Persistence

From a General Atomics ASI press release: NAVY LEAGUE SEA AIR SPACE, WASHINGTON – 18 April 2012 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced the near-term availability of two extended endurance options for its Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper fleet. “We are continually [...]

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USAF to (Re)Release Light Air Support RFP

From Aviation Week The U.S. Air Force plans to release a draft of its amended request for proposals (RFP) for the troubled Light Air Support (LAS) program on April 17, with a source selection eyed in early 2013. If this schedule holds, the first aircraft will not reach Afghanistan until the third quarter of 2014, [...]

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Flight: NATO allies expressing interest in optionally-manned K-MAX

There is strong interest amongst the United States’ NATO allies for Lockheed Martin’s optionally-manned version of the Kaman K-MAX cargo helicopter, a senior company official says. “We have a tremendous amount of interest out there at the moment,” says Jim Naylor, Lockheed’s K-MAX business development director. But while Naylor is willing to disclose that those [...]

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Boeing, Embraer Take First Cooperative Steps

From Aviation Week Boeing and Embraer are extending their cooperation in aviation with a new umbrella agreement which focuses on features for commercial aircraft “that enhance safety and efficiency.” Specifics are yet to be worked out, but Boeing President and CEO Jim Albaugh tells Aviation Week the two airframers will work in areas of intellectual [...]

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AvWeek: Marines Pick Classified Weapon For Shadow UAV

The U.S. Marine Corps has chosen a classified weapon to arm the AAI RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) for a field evaluation in Afghanistan. “The weapon is classified. It’s a high-TRL [technology readiness level] system,” says Lt. Col. Scott Anderson, product manager for Shadow in the Army’s UAS program office, which is supporting [...]

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SLD: The Impact of the Osprey on the Expeditionary Strike Group: “There is a Tsunami of Change Coming”

Shortly after the Bold Alligator 2012 exercise, Second Line of Defense sat down with Lt. Col. Boniface to discuss his experiences during Bold Alligator 2012.  As the Osprey squadron commander involved in the exercise, he was in charge of the key toolset, the Osprey, which re-defined the ESG-MEB operationally. Two images defined how the Osprey had [...]

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AvWeek: Fears Of An Aircraft Order Bubble

It is a truism of statistics that two people can study the same data and see radically different outcomes. Such is the case with the large commercial jet market. First, the facts: Airbus and Boeing took more than 2,200 net orders in 2011, twice the level of 2010 and far above the 1,011 jets they [...]

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AvWeek: X-47B Advances To Anechoic Testing

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A pilotless X-47B is slated to be subjected to a burst of electromagnetic energy that will be 10 times that endured by other aircraft being tested to survive the electronic pollution found on an aircraft carrier.

Aerospace officials are pointing to that closely held plan as an important clue about a key mission that the U.S. Navy’s next-generation, unmanned combat air system is being designed to perform. The mission is electronic attack—using bursts of high-power microwave (HPM) energy—against…

G2 Solutions @ May 18, 2012

King 5: Boeing Production

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G2 Solutions @ May 15, 2012

EconoMonitor: Greek Politics: A Step Towards the Exit

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All eyes were on France going into the weekend of May 6^th, but it turns out the Greek elections have much bigger potential implications for the future of the eurozone (EZ). Last Sunday marked a seismic shift in Greek politics, in which the two main political parties—New Democracy (ND) and Pasok—together failed to win an absolute majority for the first time since the collapse of the military dictatorship in the 1970′s. The path forward for Greece is unclear, but even the best possible scenario doesn’t look good

G2 Solutions @ May 14, 2012

AvWeek: Avionics Giants Pursue Synthetic Vision For Credit

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Having gained a foothold in the flightdecks of high-end business jets, synthetic-vision displays are moving down-range to light jets and turboprops, and preparing to step across to the military arena. Eventually the commercial airline market will follow. Meanwhile, the ability to generate flight displays from onboard databases is acting as a springboard for new cockpit capabilities.

G2 Solutions @ May 14, 2012

Flight: Honeywell reveals new version of Primus Apex avionics system

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Honeywell is revealing a new version of the Primus Apex avionics system with the company’s SmartView synthetic vision system incorporated at EBACE. Earlier in May, Flight International had the opportunity to test the new hardware in Phoenix, Arizona.

It was pitch black outside as our Pilatus PC-12 accelerated smoothly down the runway and climbed gingerly into the air, powered by a 1,200 shp Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67P turboprop. As we retracted the landing gear and turned north towards the mountains, in the cockpit the pilot in command, Honeywell’s Kevin O’Hara, and I had unprecedented situational awareness of the rocky terrain below.

G2 Solutions @ May 14, 2012

Panetta and Liang Stress Cooperation in Joint Press Conference

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SECRETARY LEON PANETTA:  Good afternoon.  It’s my privilege and honor to welcome
General Liang back to the Pentagon.  I’m pleased that in the course of his visit
to the United States, General Liang has had the opportunity to visit a number of
important military installations and receive some very thorough briefings and
demonstrations from our military leaders.  We just finished a very productive
meeting, our first since I became secretary of defense.  This continued the
regular dialogue between military and political leaders from the United States
and China. 

                Earlier this year, as you know, I was honored to be able to
host Vice President Xi here at the Pentagon during his visit to the United
States.  And I was pleased by the successful outcome of last week’s fourth
Strategic and Economic Dialogue and the second Strategic Security Dialogue at
which Jim Miller, our acting undersecretary of defense for policy, led the
department’s delegation. 

                In my meeting with General Liang, I expressed my commitment
to achieving and maintaining a healthy, stable, reliable and continuous
mil-to-mil relationship with China.  And as a symbol of that, during our meeting
General Liang invited me to visit China.  And I look forward to doing that
within the next few months.

                The United States and China are both Pacific powers, and our
relationship is one of the most critical in the world.  We share many interests
across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, from humanitarian assistance to
concerns about weapons of mass destruction to terrorism to drug interdictions to
trade to counterpiracy. 

G2 Solutions @ May 8, 2012

Boeing: 737MAX

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G2 Solutions @ May 7, 2012

Flight: Boeing rolls out first Charleston 787

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Boeing today rolled out its first 787-8 from the Charleston, South Carolina final assembly line, marking the first time the company has produced a modern widebody aircraft outside of Everett.

Airplane 46, which will be delivered to Air India by the end of the second quarter, rolled out of the factory this afternoon in front of 7,000 Boeing workers at the facility and VIP guests.

G2 Solutions @ April 28, 2012