TECH TALK
TIME TO ACCELERATE CHANGES While we cannot entirely adapt all of these automotive technologies, aviation can certainly use some of these as they mature. Let’s use the large R&D investment made by the automakers and allow the next generation of aerospace engineers, pilots and support personnel to use novel advances to move aerospace into the next era more quickly. Aerospace and aviation have depended upon government
(particularly military) funding for many innovations and such investments have paid off for everyone involved. With every new breakthrough, our lives are bettered, jobs are created and profi t and taxes are paid out, so government involvement in far-off technologies that might not appeal to shorter-term outlooks of investors is needed. This comes with a price. Anytime government entities
are involved, the pace of change slows down and becomes entangled in red tape and sometimes inertia. Increased global competition pits companies against one another and entire countries are targeting job-creating industries such as aerospace. In order for the U.S. to compete, we need to unshackle our industry and let it get back some of the mojo that it lost in the golden era of aviation when innovative people fl ocked to designing, building and operating aircraft,
rockets and other things that fl y. We have elements of this with companies such as SpaceX, the dozens of drone manufacturers and some of the emerging space-focused fi rms that hope to build orbiting hotels, mine asteroids and bring people up to orbit for a joyride. More is needed if we hope to maintain the lead we have as a country in this important industry.
Part 2 of this series will explore some of the recent advances in electronics and software and how this might infl uence aerospace.
John Pawlicki is CEO and principal of OPM Research. He also works with Information Tool Designers (ITD), where he consults to the DOT’s Volpe Center, handling various technology and cyber security projects for the FAA and DHS. He managed and deployed various
products over the years, including the launch of CertiPath (with world’s fi rst commercial PKI bridge). John has also been part of industry eff orts at the ATA/A4A, AIA and other industry groups, and was involved in the eff ort to defi ne and allow the use of electronic FAA 8130-3 forms, as well as in defi ning digital identities with PKI. His recent publication, ‘Aerospace Marketplaces Report,’ which analyzed third-party sites that support the trading of aircraft parts, is available on
OPMResearch.com as a PDF download, or a printed book version is available on
Amazon.com.
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