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

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…

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.

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…

The dialogue between senior officials at the Departments of State and Defense and industry repeatedly
centers around challenges facing the defense export enterprise…

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

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and our more than 300 member companies would like to thank the FCC for working to update rules on orbital debris mitigation for Commission-authorized satellites. Orbital debris mitigation is an issue of great importance to maintain the long-term safe operation…

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) represents over 300 companies across the aerospace industry, including FAA-licensed launch and human spaceflight operators, systems manufacturers, and suppliers. Safety is paramount to our members…

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) represents over 300 companies and nearly 2 million U.S. workers across the aerospace industry, from satellite communications companies, to launch providers, to space systems …

Our combined organizations represent hundreds of U.S. companies employing hundreds of thousands of Americans across the space sector, from large manufacturers and integrators to the small- and medium-sized businesses at the heart…

The Aerospace Industries Association takes great pride in our member companies’ work in support of the space-based. Earth observations capabilities that NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other government agencies put to use on behalf of our nation…

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), representing over 300 aerospace manufacturers and suppliers and more than 2 million U.S. workers, urges Congress to continue the consistent…

NASA was last authorized by Congress in 2017 and, in addition to the necessity of extending expiring authorities, there have been a series of new developments…

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), representing over 300 aerospace manufacturers and suppliers and more than 2 million U.S. workers, urges Congress to affirm its consistent, bipartisan support for the national security space enterprise through the Fiscal Year…

For decades, the United States has grappled with how to better acquire the national security space capabilities that have made us the world’s preeminent space power. Despite the Space Race initially building our dominant…

For over 60 years, U.S. government and private sector investments in space programs have showcased American innovation, ambition, and accomplishment on the worldwide stage. Space is inextricably linked to our economic prosperity…

The Aerospace Industries Association (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…

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…

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…

The Aerospace Industries Association’s Future of Aerospace Standardization report, first published in 2004, has been revised and updated by AIA’s Standards Governance Board.

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) in collaboration with Avascent have released a new report detailing the breakthrough growth in the autonomous aircraft market, which is expected to result in nearly $325 billion over the next two decades.

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…

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 2021.