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The summit's Day 2 keynote was presented by Giorgio
Cioni, Director of Armament and Aerospace Capabilities,
NATO. He discussed the promotion of aerospace
interoperability within the NATO alliance, and how NATO
is applying a total system approach to aviation. Cioni also
talked about the role of SAE in supporting NATO, noting
that SAE could consider looking at standards considered
by NATO where there are as yet no civilian standards,
particularly for interoperability.
At the session on IoT and Digital Manufacturing, featuring
speakers from ATI, ATOS, Rolls-Royce, and IBM, the concept
of the "digital twin" - a virtual model for a process, product or
service - was covered extensively. Additionally, the concept of
servitisation and how companies are transitioning from selling
product to selling services was also discussed.

Defence, the International Council on Systems Engineering
(INCOSE), UTC Aerospace Systems, Airbus, EASA, and
Southampton University.
Panelists at the Cybersecurity session, including representatives
from EASA, ICAO, FAA, and SESAR, stressed the importance
of facing current and future cybersecurity challenges, including
actions such as establishing a cyber-regulatory framework for
safety and security, implementing risk mitigation strategies, and
promoting a cyber-culture.
The Nanomaterials session, featuring speakers from RollsRoyce and CSEM, covered some of the latest technological
developments in the field, including graphene, and the key
factors for standardization at a nanomaterials scale.

The session on Novel Vertical Flight included speakers from
EASA and GAMA, and covered the Volocopter, a single-place
experimental electric multi-rotor helicopter with 18 electric
propellers. The impact of electric propulsion into aviation was
also discussed.

"The Summit once again saw the value of industry standards
as a key enabler for technology development, particularly in
supporting certification. We look forward to working with the
industry, regulatory and research community in taking on the
standards needs identified in the event," said David Alexander,
Aerospace Standards Director at SAE International"

The panels on Model Based Systems Engineering and Wireless
Networking featured participants from the UK Ministry of

The next SAE International Aerospace Standards Summit will be
held in 2018 in North America.

CABIN AIR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE LAUNCHED
The new SAE AC-9M Cabin Air Management Committee
held its first meeting May 3-5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in
conjunction with the AC-9 Aircraft Environmental Systems
Committee meeting.
This new committee was formed in response to a request to
SAE from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to
develop a standard or standards covering portable and fixed
installation sensors that would be capable of detecting and
recording contaminants that might enter the cabin or cockpit.
The committee has begun work on AS6923, "Portable Devices
for Measuring Air Contamination on Aircraft." The document
will cover portable equipment which samples selected airborne
contaminants. It is aimed at aiding designers of air sampling/
analytical devices in creating devices that will provide objective
sampling data from aircraft, with sufficient sensitivity and
specificity, to improve the end-user's ability to distinguish
between cabin and/or cockpit conditions that require
maintenance intervention and conditions that do not. It will also
enable the end-user to create a database of the levels of those
selected airborne contaminants in the cabin and/or cockpit.
The committee elected Kirsten Winter of Lufthansa Tecknik
as Chair, and Catherine Thibaud-Erkey of United Technologies
Research Center as Vice Chair. The next meeting will be held
in conjunction with the SAE AeroTech Congress on September

27-28 in Fort Worth, Texas, with a subsequent meeting planned
in Frankfurt.
Anyone wishing to join the committee should contact Nicole
Mattern at Nicole.mattern@sae.org.

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