Publications

AIA National Security Space FY24 NDAA Priorities 

AIA urges Congress to affirm its consistent, bipartisan support for the national security space enterprise through the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act and Intelligence Authorization Act...

How Continuing Resolutions Put America Last

How Automatic Spending Cuts Make America Less Secure

AIA Comments to the National Plan for Civil Earth Observations

AIA members include multi-decade Earth Observations Enterprise partners to the U.S. government’s space science and remote sensing communities deeply committed to maintaining and enhancing the long-term Earth observation record. AIA submits the following comments for consideration...

AIA NASA Authorization Act Priorities January 2024

AIA urges Congress to affirm its consistent, bipartisan support for NASA through a comprehensive NASA Authorization Act. In considering an authorization, AIA supports the following elements...

AIA Commercial Space Bill Priorities

AIA released a new agenda outlining commercial space priorities. These priorities were crafted to bolster the development of the commercial space industry through the establishment of more stable and predictable regulatory modernization, among other objectives...

AIA Comments on FAA’s Proposed Rules on Launch Activity and Orbital Debris

Across AIA’s member companies are the suppliers, manufacturers, launch providers, and operators of commercial, civil, and national security satellites and space vehicles. AIA submitted the following comments in response to Docket No. FAA-2023-1858, Mitigation Methods for Launch Vehicle Upper Stages on the Creation of Orbital Debris...

Cybersecurity Annual Report

The AIA Cybersecurity Committee serves the aerospace industry as a community of aircraft manufacturers and their suppliers to promote discussion, define common interest, and advocate for regulatory and standards updates to help ensure the continued safe and secure operation of the industry we serve...

Supply Chain Cybersecurity Recommendations Report

The supply chain for civil aviation is extremely complex with flow of structural components, hardware, software and data between many organizations. From the first version of this white paper, the context has significantly changed globally...

AIA Mission Authorization and Supervision Principles

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) represents over 320 companies and over 2.2 million U.S. workers across the aerospace and defense supply chain. Our members design, manufacture, and operate ground systems, launch vehicles, and spacecraft for commercial, civil, and national security space missions...