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<span>BCA Special Edition Newsletter</span> <span><span lang="" about="/users/kylee-adams" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="kylee.adams">kylee.adams@in…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-03-07T23:30:14+00:00" title="Friday, March 7, 2025 - 23:30">Fri, 03/07/2025 - 23:30</time> </span> <div><p>Business aviation is soaring, and industry events are where game-changing decisions happen. Stay ahead with the BCA Special Edition newsletter—your exclusive source for daily event recaps, executive insights, and in-depth interviews—directly from the show floor. Gain insider access to emerging opportunities, market trends, and the key partnerships shaping the future of business aviation.</p></div> <div> <div>Frequency</div> <div>Daily During Shows</div> </div> <div> <div>Email Group ID</div> <div>211</div> </div>Date: 03/15/2017 02:41 AM
<span>Selected U.S. Military Contracts for the Week of March 6 - March 10, 2017</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="email_registration_qPH4cFMVam">user+1@localho…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-03-15T01:41:00+00:00" title="Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 01:41">Wed, 03/15/2017 - 01:41</time> </span> <div><p><strong>Selected U.S. military contracts for March 6, 2017</strong></p> <p><strong>U.S. ARMY</strong></p> <p><strong>Blue Storm Associates Inc.</strong>, doing business as Pemdas Technologies and Innovation, Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $49,500,000 order dependent contract for the Atmospheric Sensing and Prediction System. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is the contracting activity (W911NF-17-D-0001).</p> <p><strong>Selected U.S. military contracts for March 7, 2017</strong></p> <p><strong>U.S. AIR FORCE</strong></p> <p><strong>Kelly Aviation Center LP</strong>, San Antonio, has been awarded a $1,001,978,024 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for KC-10 engine contractor logistic support. Contractor will provide engine teardown and overhaul, on-wing support/contract field teams, and engine parts and logistics. In addition, the contractor will provide all support required to fulfill this requirement, including but not limited to labor, materials, tools, equipment, parts, and transportation. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (FA8105-17-D-0002).</p> <p><strong>U.S. NAVY</strong></p> <p><strong>Avian LLC</strong>, Lexington Park, Maryland, is being awarded an $11,402,443 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide support for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Integrated System Evaluation Experimentation and Test Department (AIR-5.1). Services provided will include flight test engineering, programmatic, administrative, design, execution, analysis, evaluation, and reporting of tests and experiments of aircraft, unmanned air systems, weapons and weapons systems. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00421-17-C-0049).</p> <p><strong>Selected U.S. military contracts for March 8, 2017</strong></p> <p><strong>U.S. NAVY</strong></p> <p><strong>Sierra Nevada Corp.</strong>, Rancho, California, is being awarded a $30,995,905 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00174-09-D-0003) to extend the ordering period and exercise Option Year 6 for the procurement and support of the transmitting set, countermeasures AN/PLT-5, to support explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The AN/PLT-5 is a man-portable system in support of the Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, Indian Head, Maryland, is the contracting activity.</p> <p><strong>Vector Planning and Services Inc.</strong>, San Diego, is being awarded a potential $17,910,070 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide cyberspace science, research, engineering, and technology integration. Support includes innovative technology assessment and development; rapid software development and prototyping; enabling capability training; security engineering; and cybersecurity risk management. This is one of four multiple-award contracts. All awardees will have the opportunity to compete for task orders during the ordering period. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, is the contracting activity (N66001-17-D-0117).</p> <p><strong>Selected U.S. military contracts for March 9, 2017</strong></p> <p><strong>U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY</strong></p> <p><strong>Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.</strong>, Sunnyvale, California, was awarded a $53,052,807 competitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a 36-month period with no options for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology Risk Reduction (TRR) effort. This contract represents part of the Missile Defense Agency’s technology risk reduction strategy to improve performance and reduce risk for a gimbaled seeker assembly, integrated avionics assembly, component integration and testing, and an advanced seeker. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ0147-17-C-0002).</p> <p><strong>U.S. NAVY</strong></p> <p><strong>ViON Corp.</strong>, Herndon, California, is being awarded a $34,790,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide Capacity as a Service support to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (Spawar) Headquarters, Spawar System Center Pacific and Spawar System Center Atlantic. The Capacity as a Service acquisition model allows Spawar to more accurately scale, up and down, its information technology (IT) infrastructure to meet evolving mission requirements. Savings are realized through no up-front costs and a “pay as you go” acquisition model, reducing waste usually associated with overbuying of IT equipment to eventually meet an expectation of mission requirement. Under this contract, ViON is responsible for providing on-demand, on-premise computing, networking and storage solutions for a variety of systems and applications for the command’s research, development, testing and evaluation core infrastructures, laboratory and data center environments. This contract includes options, which if exercised, would bring the maximum contract value to $49,990,000. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, is the contracting activity (N00039-17-D-0003).</p> </div> <div> <div>Content summary</div> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Issue</div> <div> <div><a href="/aerospace-daily-defense-report/2017-03-14" hreflang="en">Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 14, 2017</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Article type</div> <div>Article</div> </div> <div> <div>Content source</div> <div> <div><a href="/content/aerospace-daily-defense-report" hreflang="en">Aerospace Daily & Defense Report</a></div> </div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&1=2657401&2=favorite" token="ah73oIeFAs_w_Wr-20Rg4iBPws_gLFcqgoGe0hQ0DLc"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div> <div>Exclude from lists?</div> <div>No</div> </div> <div> <div>Article sub-type</div> <div>Article</div> </div> <div> <div>Gating</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/856" hreflang="en">AWIN</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Publication date</div> <div><time datetime="2017-03-14T21:41:00Z">Tue, 03/14/2017 - 21:41</time> </div> </div>Date: 04/18/2016 07:42 PM
<span class="basic-page--title">Product Realization Pop Quiz</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/3620551" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="Will.Herth">will.herth@pen…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-04-18T17:42:07+00:00" title="Monday, April 18, 2016 - 17:42">Mon, 04/18/2016 - 17:42</time> </span> <div class="layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div> </div> <div> <div class="accordion mb-4"> <div class="accordion__card accordion__card-no-results"> <a class="accordion__card-title collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" href="#accordion-card--1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-1"> <span class="accordion__card-text"> </span> <span class="accordion__card-icon"></span> <span class="accordion__card-description"></span> </a> <div id="accordion-card--1" class="accordion__card-content collapse" aria-labelledby="accordion-card-1"> <p><strong>How well do you understand Product Realization?</strong><br /> Aerospace and Defense companies such as yours are looking for ways to gain insight into program decisions that impact cost, timing and quality. To effectively compete and achieve program execution excellence, you need to make manufacturing a core part of the development process.</p> <p>Put your Product Realization knowledge to test with this pop quiz. Complete the short quiz and be entered to win one of two $50 Amazon gifts cards!</p> <p>To help you with the answers, please download the white paper <a href="https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/aerospace-defense/product-realization/index.cfm?stc=usiia421787#lightview%26url=/en_us/Images/Siemens-PLM-Product-realization-facilitates-a-collaborative-approach-wp_tcm1023-239120.pdf%26title=White" target="_blank">Product realization facilitates a collaborative approach</a>.</p> <p> </p> <!-- put this on the page where you wish the widget to appear --> <div class="eewidget" id="eewidget_p_57051b8a9bedf20c7263a936"><a href=" http://snapp.to/1q6lJau">Content loading...</a></div> <noscript> Please enable javascript! </noscript><!-- SEO --><noscript> <div> Test Your Product Realization Knowledge </div> <div> </div> <div> <div> What is product realization for Aerospace and Defense companies? <br> It is the final phase of the project <br> It is a process-driven approach to the entire manufacturing lifecycle starting with “Concept to build” through “Build to delivery” <br> It is the decision that a design meets all requirements of OEMs and suppliers </div> <div> How does a product realization solution support program execution excellence? <br> Through simulation of production alternatives to virtually verify the manufacturing processes and tooling throughout the entire manufacturing lifecycle – full digital twin <br> Through concurrent maturing of manufacturing processes and tooling with the design thus impacting the design prior to release <br> Through integration of advanced manufacturing technologies and automation with the ability to virtually commission robotics and CNC equipment <br> Through the ability to trace a requirement to a design feature to an inspection within the electronic work instructions – complete digital thread <br> Through the ability to easily and electronically compare the as-designed to as-built for delivery – complete digital thread <br> All of the above </div> <div> Name the product realization strategy that helps understand the manufacturing implications of multiple design alternatives. (See page 6 of the white paper.) <br> Shift left <br> Shift right <br> Shift up <br> Shift down </div> <div> Which of the following is not a benefit of implementing the shift left strategy? <br> The program team can make manufacturing decisions concurrently with the product design <br> Reduces the number of program changes and ensures smooth transition from product development to production <br> Links requirements to individual test request, test procedure and instrumentation <br> Provides the early digital twin to enable virtual verification as the digital twin matures along with product design </div> <div> Which are the benefits of an ERP-PLM-MES integration? <br> Seamless delivery of 3D work instructions from PLM to MES <br> Shop floor access to released computer numerical control (CNC) programs <br> Ability to digitally compare the as-built to as-designed in a single system <br> Ability to virtually commission robotics and automation <br> All of the above <br> None of the above </div> </div> <div> <div> Test Your Product Realization Knowledge </div> <div> Thank you for participating! Winners will be notified via email. </div> </div> </noscript><!-- put this immediately before the closing /body tag --> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> </div> </div> </div>Date: 09/11/2025 08:36 PM
<span>Second B-21 Enters Flight Test In Palmdale</span> <span><span lang="" about="/users/dan-hockensmith" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="hockensmithawin">hockensmithawi…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-09-11T18:36:44+00:00" title="Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 18:36">Thu, 09/11/2025 - 18:36</time> </span> <div><p>The B-21 Raider program completed the first flight of a second airborne test aircraft in Palmdale, California on Sept. 11, clearing a key milestone a month before the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force contract award to Northrop Grumman.</p><p>Witnesses posted video on social media showing the B-21 flight-test aircraft passing overhead with wheels retracted and followed by a Lockheed Martin F-16 chase plane.</p><p>“We can now expedite critical evaluations of mission systems and weapons capabilities, directly supporting the strategic deterrence and combat effectiveness envisioned for this aircraft,” Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said.</p><p>Northrop assembles all B-21s inside Building 401 on Site 4 of the Air Force’s Plant 42 complex at Palmdale Regional Airport. New test aircraft must fly out of the public airport after they have been assembled, before they can relocate to the secure area of nearby Edwards Air Force Base.</p><p>The milestone comes nearly 22 months after Northrop completed the maiden sortie of the first flight test version of the B-21 on Nov. 10, 2023.</p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Northrop-Grumman-s-B-21-Raider-Continues-Its-Flight-Test-Campaign_hero.jpg" data-entity-uuid="33880817-817d-4466-b4f6-c16f208bd602" data-entity-type="file" alt="File photo of the first B-21 in Air Force flight testing" width="1280" height="768" loading="lazy"><p>The company has also delivered to the Air Force two more fully assembled airframes, which are reserved for static and fatigue testing on the ground. Two more flight-test aircraft have been in some stage of assembly since at least February 2022. Air Force officials say the program remains on track to clear the initial operational capability milestone in the mid-2020s.</p><p>Northrop won the $21.4 billion contract in October 2015 for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Long-Range Strike Bomber, which the Air Force later rechristened as the B-21 Raider. The Air Force also signed orders with Northrop for the first two-year lots of low-rate initial production.</p></div> <div> <div>Issue</div> <div> <div><a href="/aviation-week-space-technology/2025-09-15" hreflang="en">Aviation Week & Space Technology, Sept. 15, 2025</a></div> <div><a href="/aerospace-daily-defense-report/2025-09-12" hreflang="en">Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 12, 2025</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Article type</div> <div>Article</div> </div> <div> <div>Primary Category</div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/336" hreflang="en">Aircraft & Propulsion</a></div> </div> <div> <div>Author</div> <div> <div><a href="/author/steve-trimble" hreflang="en">Steve Trimble</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Content source</div> <div> <div><a href="/content/aerospace-daily-defense-report" hreflang="en">Aerospace Daily & Defense Report</a></div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/1066" hreflang="en">Aviation Week & Space Technology</a></div> </div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&1=4929321&2=favorite" token="4lSN6pWJNYgvYpL_lT05WB_vOsXhWUaIoYB5fmbWCmU"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div> <div>Exclude from lists?</div> <div>No</div> </div> <div> <span class="font-weight-bold">Tags:</span> <ul class="list-inline"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/156861" hreflang="en">B-21</a>,</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="/term/lockheed-martin-f-16" hreflang="en">Lockheed Martin F-16</a>,</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/134001" hreflang="en">U.S. Air Force (USAF)</a>,</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="/term/afa-air-space-cyber-conference-2025" hreflang="en">AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2025</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <div>Gating</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/861" hreflang="en">AWST</a></div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/851" hreflang="en">AW.com</a></div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/35591" hreflang="en">ASD</a></div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/851" hreflang="en">AW.com</a></div> </div> </div> <a href="/defense/closer-look-northrop-grummans-b-21" hreflang="en">A Closer Look At Northrop Grumman's B-21</a> <a href="/defense/aircraft-propulsion/after-b-21-rollout-us-air-force-plans-embark-test-program" hreflang="en">After B-21 Rollout, U.S. Air Force Plans To Embark On Test Program</a> <a href="/defense/aircraft-propulsion/arrival-second-airworthy-b-21-inches-closer-us-air-force" hreflang="en">Arrival Of A Second Airworthy B-21 Inches Closer For U.S. Air Force</a> <div> <div>Featured Image</div> <div> <div><a href="/media/image/2315551" hreflang="en">b21awin_usairforce.jpg</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Secondary Categories/Subcategories</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/346" hreflang="en">Defense</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>Is iframe in the header?</div> <div>Off</div> </div> <div> <div>Knowledge Center Featured Content</div> <div>Off</div> </div> <div> <div>Do not render ads</div> <div>Off</div> </div> <div> <div>Temporarily set to AWIN Freemium</div> <div>Off</div> </div>Date: 07/02/2025 11:55 AM
<span>Diamond V.MO</span> <span><span lang="" about="/users/william-moore-7" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="william.moore">william.moore@…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-07-02T09:55:06+00:00" title="Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 09:55">Wed, 07/02/2025 - 09:55</time> </span> <div><p>The V.MO is a lift and cruise eVTOL aircraft being developed by Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH, a subsidiary of the Wanfeng Auto Holding Group. The aircraft design was originally developed by Volkswagen China and was transferred to Diamond following a deal between the two companies in February 2024. A subscale prototype of the V.MO first flew in 2022. The full-scale aircraft design was unveiled at the Zhuhai Airshow in November 2024. No official certification plans have been announced.</p><h2>Structure and Powertrain</h2><p>The V.MO seats a pilot and four passengers in a streamlined cabin. The aircraft features a twin-boom connected by fore and aft wings, with eight vertical lift fans distributed along the booms. The aircraft features two pusher propellers, providing propulsion during wing-borne cruise flight.<br><br>The aircraft features distributed electric propulsion (DEP), with each propeller powered by its own electric motor. This design approach provides high redundancy and reliability by eliminating critical points of failure.</p><h2>Specifications</h2><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="288">Aircraft Type</td><td width="288">Lift and Cruise eVTOL</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Seats</td><td width="288">Pilot + 4</td></tr><tr><td width="288">MTOW</td><td width="288">2,000–2,500 kg / 4,400–5,500 lb</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Range</td><td width="288">200 km / 125 miles</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Cruising Speed</td><td width="288">200 kph / 125 mph</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Propulsion</td><td width="288">10 electric motors power 10 propellers (8 lift fans and 2 pusher propellers)</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Power/Energy Storage</td><td width="288">Battery details unknown.</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Flight Controls</td><td width="288">Fly-by-wire</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Takeoff & Landing</td><td width="288">VTOL</td></tr><tr><td width="288">Autonomy</td><td width="288">No</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div> <div>Channel</div> <div>Commercial Aviation</div> </div> <div> <div>Market Indicator Code</div> <div>Commercial</div> </div> <div> <div>Program Profile ID</div> <div>471800</div> </div> <div class="slick blazy slick--field slick--field-image slick--field-image--rss unslick slick--optionset--awn slick--less" data-blazy=""> <div class="slick__dfp-ad"> <div id="js-dfp-tag-gallery" class="dfp-gallery-ad"> </div> </div> <div class="slide__content"> <div data-b-thumb="/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_thumbnail_80x80/public/2025-07/diamond_v.mo_.jpg?h=8ad2c889&itok=teo3WHwF" data-b-token="b-5fbc875b625" class="media media--blazy media--slick media--bundle--image media--image is-b-loading"><img alt="Profile view of Diamond V.MO" decoding="async" class="media__element b-lazy" loading="lazy" data-src="/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/2025-07/diamond_v.mo_.jpg?itok=lz7g90Eh" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%2080%2080'%2F%3E" width="1000" height="559" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </div> </div>Some of these aviation news pages are compiled with a RSS feed from several news sources. As such, we can not take any responsibility for the correctness of these subjects.
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