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Asia-Pacific aerospace briefs today
July 19th 2021
CAE said it planned to C$1 billion (US$787 million) on innovation projects over next five years in partnership with the Canadian government (C$190 million) and the government of Quebec (C$150 million), with the funds used to support the training company's Project Resilience that was focused on digitally immersive solutions using data ecosystems and artificial intelligence in civil aviation, defence and security and healthcare. Read More »
Airbus and Canada-based SAF+ Consortium said they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) development and production in North America.
Collins Aerospace said in a statement it had completed the deployment of the company's ARINC SelfPass biometrics solution at Tokyo Haneda Airport, which included 98 self-service check-in kiosks, 30 biometric enrolment kiosks, 104 biometric devices for self-bag drop, 17 biometric automated security gates and 42 biometric automated self-boarding gates.
Embraer has nominated former Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO, Kevin McAllister, and former General Electric, Airbus and J.P. Morgan executive, Todd Freeman, to the company's board of directors, with the nominations to be voted on at an extraordinary shareholders meeting on August 16.
