by Duke Okes ISO 19011 is a guidance document (vs. a standard) originally issued in 2002, then revised in 2011 and again in 2018. Each revision broadened the application to be relevant for a wider range of management systems. As one would expect, ISO 19011...

Bureau Veritas has acquired Orion Assessment Services International Inc.’s Canadian food auditing business based in Toronto, ON. Orion delivers bestin-class food certification services to food manufacturers across Canada. This strategic business acquisition gives Orion’s food safety customers access to the broader suite of Bureau Veritas...

DNV GL has acquired U.S. based engineering consultancy Energy and Resource Solutions, Inc. (ERS), which helps organizations to manage and reduce energy costs through program design, outreach, implementation, and evaluation services. The growing need to transform energy markets across all sectors and decarbonize energy supply...

SAE International's AeroTech® Digital Summit will take place online on March 9-11, 2021. The three-day digital program will cover critical topics in aerospace and defense, including automation, artificial intelligence, autonomous and unmanned systems, electric and connected aircraft, air taxis and advanced manufacturing. “The past year brought challenges...

As the U.S. member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is seeking comments on a proposal for a new ISO technical committee to focus on service dogs. ANSI seeks input by February 26, 2021.  Service dogs (known as assistance dogs outside the...

Safeguarding a company’s information against data breaches and hacking is an increasingly complex affair, often involving many systems, tools, and people to get it right. However, all the best efforts in the world can lead to failure if the whole system is not effectively...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new standards series focused on biometric security. The series of standards ISO/IEC 19989, Information security – Criteria and methodology for security evaluation of biometric systems, helps to ensure consumers are protected from presentation attacks, where an attempt...

Obtaining data from the supply chain to support chemical (substance) content reporting for article (hardware) products remains extremely challenging and resource-intensive for industries such as aerospace and defense (AD). However, the increasing use of materials and substances declaration standards promotes efficiency in obtaining such...

In 2020, the International Aerospace Environmental Group (IAEG) has been engaged in a number of exciting projects focusing on technologies affected by EU REACh and investigating potential chemical and material replacement alternatives available to the aerospace industry. IAEG’s Working Group 2 (Replacement Technologies) takes...

AE International announced today the launch of the SAE OnQue™ Digital Standards System, a first-of-its-kind system that delivers SAE’s expansive library of engineering standards digitally. As a trusted resource in engineering standards, SAE digitally delivers its expansive library of knowledge to aerospace engineers through the...