BOEING

Boeing through its subsidiary Tapestry Solutions, has announced that it has secured a five-year US Air Force contract to sustain and modernise the Global Decision Support System(GDSS), the principal command and control (C2) software platform that supports global Air Mobility Command (AMC) missions. GDSS helps mobility aircrews successfully plan and execute core missions, ranging from aerial refuelling to strategic airlift.

Boeing grounded its MAX series aircraft worldwide last year after two deadly crashes that were linked to faulty software. The company, however, remains optimistic that its fleet will receive the green light to go wheels up by summer of 2020. Boeing also said that it found debris contaminating the fuel tanks of “several” 737 MAX passenger planes.