1. Tom Irvine Managing Director, Content Development January 11, 2017
Aviation Week Update
Tom Irvine
Managing Director, Content Development
January 11, 2017

2. Aviation Week Agreement: MOU signed December 2016
20 Twenties
AIAA is the 2017 Association Sponsor
Provide five judges – winners for 2017 selected in Dec. and to be introduced at SciTech
12/20 are AIAA members
Winners profiled in AvWeek magazine
Participate in the awards luncheon and presentation at the Laureate Awards (Mar. 2017)
Workforce Study
AIAA serves on survey advisory board
2017 results will be unveiled in a session at SPACE 2017
Aviation Week participation in Forums
YP Focus group on media consumption being SciTech
Editorial team to serve as plenary/F360 moderators
AIAA will produce Aviation Week editorials on a regular basis
AIAA student members receive complimentary subscription to Aviation Week & Space Technology

3. Growth Plan Activities (Backup)
Tom Irvine
Managing Director, Content Development
January 11, 2017

4. Growth Plan Activities
Demand for Unmanned UAS Symposium
1st symposium held at AVIATION Forum in June 2016
Brought together stakeholders from academia, government, and industry to identify research challenges that will lead to operational opportunities for the UAS community
275 individuals attended
A number of industry thought leaders spoke on:
Autonomy
Autonomous operations
Machine intelligence
Human-machine interactions
D4U Symposium being planned for AVIATION 2017
Aircraft Electric/Hybrid-Electric Power & Propulsion Workshop
1-day workshop held at P&E 2016
Capitalized on emergent interest
Created roadmap to catalyze research in electrically powered aircraft; specifically
Hybrid electric propulsion
Large civil transport aircraft
Hybrid Electric Aircraft workshop planned for AVIATION 2017

5. Growth Plan Activities, cont.
Space Commercialization Executive Summit
1-day by-invitation only event held at SPACE Forum
Theme: “Connecting to Grow the Space Economy”
65 senior executives, influencers and stakeholders from the commercial space sector participated, including:
Industry
Space commerce
Research & development
Academia
Government
Proceedings documented; to be made available soon
AIAA working with Executive Steering Committee to develop action items
Planning a follow-on Summit and related activities at the 2017 SPACE Forum

6. Growth Plan Activities, cont.
Beyond B2B: “Connecting for Growth” Event
First event held in Dayton, Ohio on 4 October 2016
Connected small businesses from all industries, including those from outside of aerospace, with AIAA corporate member prime contractors and government agencies
Prime contractors had the ability to find potential subcontractors, vendors, collaborators, innovative technology, and/or acquisitions
Event strongly supported by GE Aviation
Small businesses learned about prime contractors, government agencies, and small business partnering opportunities
Additional B2B activities are being planned for 2017

7. Growth Plan Activities, cont.
Cybersecurity
Protocol: Aerospace Cybersecurity News launched in December
Partnership with Richard Clarke and Good Harbor Security Risk Management
Provides analysis and insight on the most pressing cybersecurity issues of the day
Feedback welcome on topics and articles of interest
Non-members can subscribe:
33% of recipients opened first (Dec.) newsletter; 12% forwarded to colleagues (on 26,000 sends)
First cybersecurity symposium to be held at AVIATION 2017
Will explore cybersecurity and supply chain management through a participatory exercise
Will consider prevention/defense, threat mitigation and response
To include an aviation themed table-top exercise