PublicationsCategory: Reports

Continued Airworthiness Assessment Methodology: Lessons Learned

The Continued Airworthiness Assessment Methodology (CAAM) committee has been collecting and publishing datasets of propulsion safety-related events for the turbofan and turboprop commercial fleet for several decades...

The Role of Cybersecurity Data Science in Aviation Cybersecurity

The aviation ecosystem generates a tremendous amount of data on large informational and operational networks. The scale of this data generation can be in the range of terabytes...

Digital Twin: Reference Model, Realizations & Recommendations

Digital Twins are continuously developed across a wide number of applications and industries. This paper is intended for practitioners interested in the development and implementation of Digital Twins as a means to realize value.

FMS Modernization: U.S. Industry Feedback to the Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Tiger Team

Top defense trade associations, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and the Professional Services Council (PSC) released their recommendations to modernize elements of the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.

Civil Aviation Cybersecurity Change Impact Assessment and Affected Areas Recommendations Report

EASA has introduced cybersecurity into certification with ED Decision 2020/006/R. With effect from January 2021, the following certification specifications include cybersecurity rules...

A Senior Executive’s Starters Guide to Understanding Digital Transformation

We live in extraordinary times in which digitalization is radically changing the business, operations, and collaborative landscape across virtually every industry, government, and academic institution. To meet the challenges of today...

2022 Facts & Figures

AIA has released the latest 2022 Facts & Figures report, providing a snapshot of the aerospace and defense industry’s continued resilience and impact...

AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Annual Report 2022

This paper contains a summary of standards and regulatory updates which are important to our community as well as a summary of the papers in development and published by the committee in 2022.

2022 Aerospace & Defense Workforce Study

Workforce and talent concerns remain top of mind for aerospace and defense (A&D) companies as they look at an increasingly competitive marketplace for highly skilled employees, both today and into the future...

Space Spectrum Allocation Letter

In adopting spectrum allocations, regulators need to recognize the essential nature of space-based communications and consider impacts to existing space services...