Chief Executive Magazine Names CEO of the Year
Chief Executive magazine has named Lockheed Martin’s chief, Marillyn Hewson, its CEO of the year.
Chief Executive magazine has named Lockheed Martin’s chief, Marillyn Hewson, its CEO of the year.
Bloomberg News (5/8, Newcomer) reports that Uber and NASA have “announced a partnership to study urban manned aircraft.” Under the terms of the partnership, “Uber will share its data with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to move the world closer to developing air traffic management systems for a world with flying cars.”
The AP (5/4, Cooper) reported that, with a GDP of over $2.7 trillion, “California’s economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth largest.”
Eaton sees transformation using 3D metal printing as difficult but very worthwhile. The firm’s aerospace group is investing aggressively in additive manufacturing of both polymer and metal parts.
CHANDLER, Ariz. — A major aerospace and defense technology firm broke ground on its new campus Wednesday.
Manufacturing traditionally has been thought of as a process that turns raw materials into physical products, and the factory as the structure where manufacturing happens.
CNET News (4/17, Al-Heeti) reports that Lockheed Martin, Stratasys, and Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies (PADT) announced Tuesday that they will manufacture and deploy 3D-printed parts for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the first of the agency’s spacecraft to include such parts.
The Los Angeles Times (4/16, Masunaga) reports that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti “confirmed Monday that SpaceX will build the company’s BFR rocket and spaceship system at a facility at the Port of LA.”
The St. George (UT) News (4/15) reports Iron County School District, Southwest Technical College, Southern Utah University, and MSC Aerospace will collaborate on “a stackable credential pathway for students to quickly move into the high paying aerospace and manufacturing industry.”
It is possible to implement MES (manufacturing execution system) software that does away with paper documentation in less than six months, Andrzej Goryca, senior enterprise systems manager at Virgin Orbit, said today at the AeroDef Manufacturing conference here.