15 October 2026
Executive Director Strategy & Policy in making NLR future-proof
Egbert Smit has been appointed as Executive Director Strategy & Policy and member of the Management team of Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), effective 15 October 2026.
15 October 2026
Skunk Works and the Royal NLR expand strategic collaboration
Washington, D.C., Oct. 15, 2026 – Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) and The Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) today announced a broadening of their strategic partnership with a focus on four key pillars. These include connectivity to the Dutch industrial base, coordination on military operational analysis, alignment on technology roadmaps, and collaboration on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). What began two years ago as an exploratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has matured into a high-impact collaboration, rapidly transitioning advanced technologies from the research lab into operational solutions that directly support the mission readiness of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
14 October 2026
European support for NLR research into cleaner aviation
At the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), we are working hard toward a cleaner future for aviation. Recently, new research projects were funded by the European Union; we will be participating in ten of them. Here are six questions on this topic for NLR’s chief technology officer, Martin Nagelsmit.
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Blog: Don’t forget the humans. Aviation psychology in the future of aviation
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ESA open days, EU
19 September – 10 October
International Astronautical Congress, TUR
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MRO Europe, NL
27 – 29 October
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