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FAA launches post‑checkride survey to address examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent testing

The FAA has launched a post‑checkride survey to collect systematic feedback on Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) performance, aiming to quantify examiner behavior and testing outcomes. The move responds to widespread pilot complaints about examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent practical test standards.

2025-12-30T08:12:50.252127-08:00

Space.com

2025 Shakeup at NASA: Damage, Reforms and Industry Implications

2025-12-30T05:10:05.848694-08:00

Vertical Mag

Rotorcraft 2025: safety wake‑ups, regulatory pressure and rapid design progress

2025-12-30T06:07:38.413521-08:00

Reuters

Spain exempts Airbus from Israeli tech ban to allow aircraft and drone production despite Gaza-related restrictions

2025-12-30T06:28:29.087007-08:00

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FAA launches post‑checkride survey to address examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent testing The FAA has launched a post‑checkride survey to collect systematic feedback on Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) performance, aiming to quantify examiner behavior and testing outcomes. The move responds to widespread pilot complaints about examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent practical test standards.

2025-12-30T08:12:50.252127-08:00

FAA launches post‑checkride survey to address examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent testing

Reuters

Spain exempts Airbus from Israeli tech ban to allow aircraft and drone production despite Gaza-related restrictions Spain has granted Airbus an exceptional exemption to permit production in Spanish factories using Israeli technology for aircraft and drones, despite Madrid's ban two months ago on Israeli military and dual‑use goods in response to the war in Gaza. The carve‑out preserves ongoing manufacturing and supplier access.

2025-12-30T06:28:29.087007-08:00

Spain exempts Airbus from Israeli tech ban to allow aircraft and drone production despite Gaza-related restrictions

Vertical Mag

Rotorcraft 2025: safety wake‑ups, regulatory pressure and rapid design progress 2025 exposed hard lessons in rotorcraft safety and pushed renewed regulatory scrutiny while also delivering marked technical advances across helicopters, tiltrotors and eVTOLs. The mix of incidents, policy momentum and prototype-to-production steps is reshaping procurement, certification and operational planning.

2025-12-30T06:07:38.413521-08:00

Rotorcraft 2025: safety wake‑ups, regulatory pressure and rapid design progress

Payload

Top 5 National Security Trends of 2025: The Military’s Intensifying Focus on Space In 2025 armed forces worldwide shifted urgent attention and resources into space, elevating orbital operations, doctrine and procurement to top national-security priorities. The change accelerated training, acquisition timelines and on‑orbit resilience planning as militaries race to field capabilities for contested space operations.

2025-12-30T05:30:15.834879-08:00

Top 5 National Security Trends of 2025: The Military’s Intensifying Focus on Space

Space.com

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2025 Shakeup at NASA: Damage, Reforms and Industry Implications NASA's 2025 shakeup has exposed real institutional damage—leadership turnover, program stress and policy uncertainty—but agency officials say the harm can be addressed through reforms. The changes create near-term disruption for programs and contractors while reshaping funding priorities, oversight and industry partnerships.

2025-12-30T05:10:05.848694-08:00

2025 Shakeup at NASA: Damage, Reforms and Industry Implications

SpaceWatch Global

Washington elevates U.S. industrial and economic dominance in new security strategy In unusually blunt terms, Washington’s new security strategy elevates U.S. industrial and economic dominance to a core national‑security objective, signaling a concerted move to align trade, procurement and supply‑chain policy to restore American manufacturing muscle and reduce strategic dependencies abroad.

2025-12-30T01:25:09.895414-08:00

Washington elevates U.S. industrial and economic dominance in new security strategy

SpaceNews.com

Isaacman open to Houston receiving a different spacecraft instead of Discovery NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he would be open to transferring a spacecraft other than the Space Shuttle Discovery to Space Center Houston, offering an alternative to moving Discovery itself. His remark introduces flexibility into the high‑profile custody dispute over the orbiter's final display location.

2025-12-30T01:03:36.589018-08:00

Isaacman open to Houston receiving a different spacecraft instead of Discovery

politico.eu

Hacking space: Europe ramps satellite cybersecurity as hybrid-warfare cyberattacks increase European governments and agencies are ramping satellite and ground‑station cybersecurity amid a surge in hybrid‑warfare cyberattacks targeting space systems. The shift treats orbital assets as contested warfighting domains and accelerates investment in resilience, threat‑sharing and sovereign satcom capabilities.

2025-12-29T20:28:51.051148-08:00

Hacking space: Europe ramps satellite cybersecurity as hybrid-warfare cyberattacks increase

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FAA launches post‑checkride survey to address examiner shortages, rising DPE fees and inconsistent testing

2025 Shakeup at NASA: Damage, Reforms and Industry Implications

Rotorcraft 2025: safety wake‑ups, regulatory pressure and rapid design progress

Spain exempts Airbus from Israeli tech ban to allow aircraft and drone production despite Gaza-related restrictions

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