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Boeing and NASA partner with Alaska and other airlines on eco-friendly X-66A aircraft

GeekWire

Boeing Illustration) Boeing and NASA say they’ll collaborate with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and four other major airlines on the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project , which aims to put Boeing’s innovative X-66 braced-wing aircraft design through flight tests in the 2028-2029 time frame. In 2021, NASA awarded $74.3

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Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

Computer Weekly

Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what happens if the maintenance hanger catches fire

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Changing Times Cause CIOs To Change Their Priorities

The Accidental Successful CIO

Another example of a person with CIO job who did a pivot can be found at United Airlines. The airlines stopped every project it was working on in order to determine which were the most critical. At United Airlines their plans to deploy touchless kiosks were sped up and quickly deployed to airports.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of roughly 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their firms are implementing internal private clouds, which will use virtualization and private cloud management.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The solutions, some in pilot stage and others in early development, transcend a variety of core industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. The program builds a meaningful partnership between AWS, IBM, and the client to deliver an integrated program.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity. Reliable computing Trustworthy systems have always been the goal for developers but lately some high-profile events are convincing some IT managers that better architectures and practices are necessary.

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It’s Time to Demystify Hybrid Clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s the vision at Canada Jetlines , a startup airline that began with a cloud-native strategy. Pope is among the speakers at the Canadian CIO Future of Cloud Summit , taking place virtually June 8 and 9. That’s giving us a greater view of the business … and making enhancements for the customer experience almost on the fly.”.

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