Jean Chamberlin has been named programme manager for Boeing Defense & Space Group's Northrop Grumman B-2 activities. She succeeds Mark Sussman, who becomes manager of unmanned-aerial-vehicle programmes. Sussman replaces Richard Alldredge, who becomes chief engineer for the Military Airplanes division.
Source: Flight International
Leonardo Helicopters has based its initial Proteus uncrewed technology demonstrator on the AW09 light-single, FlightGlobal can reveal.
GE Aerospace appears poised to develop a “revolutionary” new turboshaft engine for rotary-wing applications in a project with Airbus Helicopters.
New UK minister for defence procurement Maria Eagle announced a major order for Thales’s lightweight multirole missile (LMM) at the Farnborough air show on 24 July.
