Fighting Fires from Space
The vantage point of space allows us to observe and understand the Earth's most vital systems. Given the escalating threat of longer and more devastating fire seasons...
PublicationsCategory: White Paper
AIA FY23 Space Priorities
AIA is the premier advocate for America’s space industry, supply chain, and workforce. Across AIA’s over 300 member companies are the suppliers, designers, manufacturers, launch providers, and operators of commercial, civil, and national security satellites and space vehicles...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Software Distribution Security White Paper 2022
This paper seeks to provide guidance for compliance to new aviation standards and provides recommendations to standardize best practices as much as possible. This guidance complements the 2021 software recommendation paper as it includes a proposed timeline to implement cybersecurity measures...
An Industry Perspective: Critical Actions to Ensure U.S. Defense Trade Success
The dialogue between senior officials at the Departments of State and Defense and industry repeatedly centers around challenges facing the defense export enterprise...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Change Impact Analysis White Paper 2022
This document contains a gap analysis of EASA, FAA, and standards bodies (e.g. RTCA and EUROCAE) alignment on aircraft certification as it pertains to cybersecurity...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – AIA/ALPA Human Factors White Paper 2022
This paper outlines discussions starting in 2021 between pilots, represented by ALPA, and airplane and avionics system manufacturers, represented by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Civil Aviation Cybersecurity Subcommittee...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Software Distribution Security White Paper 2021
This paper seeks to provide guidance for compliance to new aviation standards and provides recommendations to standardize best practices as much as possible. This guidance complements the 2020 software recommendation paper establishing the basis for ARINC 645-1 secure dataloaders and provides proposals for transitioning civil aviation to secure software distribution for all aircraft...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Testing White Paper 2021
New cybersecurity risks may emerge after type certification that must be continuously reviewed and verified in terms of potential airplane and ground system impacts. This document details recommendations for key stakeholders in the aviation ecosystem, including operators, manufacturers, and regulators...
AIA Civil Aviation Cyber Security Subcommittee – Propulsion White Paper 2020
This paper analyzes the current rulemaking environment and the recent rules issued by EASA on their equivalents to Part 25, 33 and 35...
