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Number 12 By Article: AviationWeek.com/awst By Issue: AviationWeek.com/awst_current Download and Read Offline: AviationWeek.com/download DEPARTMENTS 5 | Feedback 11 | Leading Edge 22 6 | Who’s Where 56 | Classified NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, 7-8 | First Take 57 | Contact Us foreground, overseeing his first human 9 | Up Front 57 | Aerospace spaceflight, snares a selfie with Demo-2 10 | Going Concerns Calendar astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley inside the Kennedy Space Center Astronaut Crew Quarters —used for every NASA human spaceflight mission since the FEATURES 1960s. Credit: Kim Shiflett/NASA 12 | The Next Bomber? An “Arsenal Plane” emerges as a priority for the U.S. Air Force, but SPACE SUPPLY CHAIN an internal debate continues over 22 | NASA and SpaceX open a new 36 | Aerospace supply chain is due for the type of aircraft to use chapter in human spaceflight overhaul after COVID-19 14 | Fables of the Reconstruction MANUFACTURING Transborder restrictions, weak DEFENSE balance sheets among challenges 28 | Technology boosts Western air-to- 43 | Powerful optimization tools change for decimated airline networks air missile supremacy aerospace design engineers’ role 40 | Reconnecting Parts 30 | Beijing is taking the air-to-air AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Ten years on, additive missile lead from Russia 45 | Europe’s GPS augmentation manufacturing has not changed system aims at Cat. 2 approaches 32 | New F-35 propulsion road map the aerospace landscape includes possible reengining 46 | The FAA applies its “preferred” 48 | Face to Face, Point to Point surveillance system 33 Flight Paths Forward: A look at | U.S. Army Vintage Racer concept details revealed inadvertently ASK THE EDITORS the future of business and general 55 | How can sustainable aviation fuel aviation after the coronavirus 34 | Performance is expected to leap be kept sustainable? after Australian Jindalee upgrade FROM THE EDITOR 35 | COVID-19 forces new approaches 58 | Coming soon: Aviation Week’s COMMERCIAL AVIATION to U.S. military pilot training Flight Paths Forward and more 18 | Emirates sees major benefits in tying up with a big U.S. airline 19 | Alitalia has its work cut out for ON THE COVER post-COVID-19 relaunch After 18 years and 92 launches, SpaceX founder, CEO and Chief Engineer Elon Musk celebrated his company’s achievement of becoming the first private entity to fly people to orbit. 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