Aerospace technology is one of the few remaining areas of distinct U.S. comparative advantage.
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Several major firms will form the UK Aerospace Technology Institute, including Airbus and the aerospace division of Rolls Royce, which has its main UK facility in Derby.
The second reason cost matters so much is that while relatively few people in Congress and the media understand cutting-edge aerospace technology, they all think they understand what a price-tag means.
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Unfortunately, the same questions might well be posed today about another aerospace technology in which the United States currently enjoys a decisive competitive advantage -- thanks to a farsighted and ambitious Defense Department program and the congressional support it has long received: the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft.
Moreover, a prolonged investment drought in the region will hurt the major American industries -- notably aerospace, high technology, construction equipment and financial services -- that have prospered most from the Asian boom.
The primary reason the United States led in aerospace, communications technology, information technology, computing and the major new energy technologies of the later 20th century (gas turbines, nuclear, wind and solar power) is because the U.S. government made a series of smart investments on the cutting edge of each of these technology fields to catalyze entrepreneurship and innovation.
His venture, Bigelow Aerospace , is using technology originally developed by NASA to develop inflatable habitats, each one of which could be shipped into space, blown up to about the size of a three-bedroom house and connected to a structure such as the International Space Station.
Legendary videogame designer John Carmack --creator of games like Doom and Quake, and founder of id Software --owns rocket-technology startup Armadillo Aerospace .
The top four industries represented in the study are weapons and security, aerospace, government agencies and information technology.
But they also said that China is catching up fast in other areas of civil and military aviation technology, thanks in large part to technology transferred by foreign aerospace companies in Chinese joint ventures.
It is a formidable exporter of aerospace machinery, capital equipment and medical technology.
Brazil, for example, has its own multinational aerospace industry that flies on home grown technology and is renown for its online voting and banking systems.
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Bob Witver, head of advanced technology for Honeywell's aerospace unit, said the aim is to make "the whole experience of piloting smooth and seamless, " ensuring that pilots "receive the same kind of information on the same kind of displays" regardless of whether planes are taxiing or flying.
And before starting Cambrian, he worked in a Massachusetts aerospace company with close ties to universities that licensed technology, commercialized it, and spun out the business as an entrepreneurial venture.
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Israel is the world's largest exporter of drones and drone technology, and the state-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries has sold to countries as varied as Nigeria, Russia and Mexico.
And this afternoon, President Medvedev and I will join American and Russian business leaders as they move forward with a series of major trade and investment deals that will create jobs for Americans and Russians across many sectors, from aerospace and automotive engineering to the financial sector and high technology.
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United Technologies provides a broad range of high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries.
Chuck Eastlake, a professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, said the technology for the reinforcements seems to be relatively basic.
Companies represented here today are moving forward with a series of major trade and investment deals that will create jobs for both Americans and Russians across many sectors, from aerospace, to automotive engineering, to the financial sector and high-technology.
Non-transferability: According to General Dynamics, the FS-X program transfers neither technology nor methodology especially useful to a Japanese competitor in the commercial aerospace market.
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The Administration acknowledges that probably roughly 10% of the F-16 technology the United States expects to share with Japan could be applied to commercial aerospace endeavors.
Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
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