Consisting in 2016 of 290 airlines, primarily major carriers, representing 117 countries, the IATA's member airlines account for carrying approximately 82% of total available seat miles air traffic. IATA supports airline activity and helps formulate industry policy and standards. It is headquartered in Canada in the city of Montréal, with executive offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
The massive use of plastic materials derived from fossil fuels and their consequent environmental accumulation have driven the search for more sustainable alternatives. Among them, biopolymer-based materials such as cellulose stand out, as they are not only abundant and renewable but also readily available from lignocellulosic waste, promoting a circular economy. This study analyses porous structures derived from vine shoots’ waste biomass, specifically foams and aerogels obtained via freeze-drying and supercritical CO2 drying. Parameters such as density (15–70 mg/cm3), shrinkage (15–75
As telecommunications networks evolve toward 6G and beyond, trustworthy AI in cybersecurity becomes essential. Traditional deep learning approaches face critical challenges: the ML exhaustion problem, lack of explainability, and unsustainable computational demands. This paper integrates Protecion-motivation theory from behavioral economics into Bayesian networks for cyberthreat detection in telecommunications. Our methodology achieves 11 percentage points improvement in prediction accuracy (from 61% to 72%) while significantly reducing computational complexity and training costs. This approach provides transparent, interpretable models aligned with regulatory frameworks such as GDPR and suitable for future ITU standards on trustworthy AI. By demonstrating that behavioral-informed architectures outperform brute-force approaches while consuming fewer resources, this work contributes to sustainable, ethical, and standardizable AI solutions for critical telecommunications infrastructure.
CONOPS: Battery and Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft at Aerodromes
The aircraft lifecycle involves thousands of transactions and an enormous amount of data being exchanged across the stakeholders in the aircraft ecosystem. This data pertains to various aircraft life cycle stages such as design, manufacturing, certification, operations, maintenance, and disposal of the aircraft. All participants in the aerospace ecosystem want to leverage the data to deliver insight and add value to their customers through existing and new services while protecting their own intellectual property. The exchange of data between stakeholders in the ecosystem is involved and growing exponentially. This necessitates the need for standards on data interoperability to support efficient maintenance, logistics, operations, and design improvements for both commercial and military aircraft ecosystems. A digital thread defines an approach and a system which connects the data flows and represents a holistic view of an asset data across its lifecycle. The digital thread framework addresses data flow procedures, data security, and data governance aspect. The digital thread includes as-designed requirements, validation and inspection records, certification information, as-manufactured data, as-operated data, and as-maintained data. This paper discusses the considerations for requirements, specifications, and framework of a digital thread in aircraft data lifecycle management.
The number of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has been growing over the past few years and will continue to grow at a faster pace in the near future. UAS faces many challenges in certification, airspace management, operations, supply chain, and maintenance. Blockchain, defined as a distributed ledger technology for the enterprise that features immutability, traceability, automation, data privacy, and security, can help address some of these challenges. However, blockchain also has certain drawbacks and, additionally, it is still not fully mature. Hence it is essential to study how blockchain can help UAS. This Aerospace Information Report (AIR) presents the current opportunities, challenges of UAS operating at or below 400 ft Above Ground Level (AGL) altitude for commercial use and how blockchain can help meet these challenges. It also provides requirements for developing a blockchain solution for UAS along with the need for the standardization of blockchain enabled processes.
