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New report by AIA and EY US identifies clear path to scale digital thread technologies

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NEW YORK, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As aerospace and defense (A&D) organizations face unprecedented demand to increase output, digital thread initiatives are emerging as a critical enabler of end‑to‑end visibility and faster decision‑making. New joint research released today by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) finds that while digital thread efforts are delivering measurable benefits, most organizations remain unable to scale it across the enterprise. A framework for integrating data across systems and lifecycle stages of a product, digital thread is the seamless flow of trusted data across design, production and operations, enabling traceability and transparency.

The study, “Digital thread delivers value, so what’s stopping scale?“, is based on a survey of 57 A&D leaders as well as in-depth executive interviews. Findings show that while adoption is widespread, enterprise‑level impact remains limited. Three‑quarters of organizations are implementing digital thread in some capacity, yet only 14 percent say it is fully applied across the enterprise. The study pinpoints the moves that make digital thread programs succeed: the right ownership model, the right funding approach and the right use cases to start with.

“Aerospace and defense’s current challenges have turned digital thread from a nice-to-have into a must-have,” said Tim White, AIA Vice President of Engineering and Technology. “It sharpens quality, strengthens traceability, cuts redundancy and utilizes the data artificial intelligence needs to unlock real optimization. To meet unprecedented demand in the supply chain, digital thread is essential for organizations looking to compete and win in the future.”

“Digital thread is no longer a technology problem. It is an execution problem,” said Raman Ram, EY Americas Aerospace, Defense & Mobility Leader. “Organizations see value in pilots, but without enterprise‑level governance, performance measurement and data standardization, that value never scales to impact delivery, capital efficiency or risk.”

Key findings in the study include:

Despite years of investment in digital thread, 56 percent of A&D organizations remain in pilot or limited implementation phases.Execution, ownership and data readiness are the biggest barriers to enterprise impact.Fewer than half (45 percent) of leaders surveyed say their organization has a clear strategic vision and sustained commitment for digital thread.Data readiness is a critical constraint to digital thread implementation, with only 29 percent of respondents saying their enterprise data is standardized, governed and accessible, limiting organizations’ ability to connect workflows across the lifecycle and apply analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). While 71 percent of leaders expect the greatest future value from digital thread will come from predictive analytics and AI-enabled insights, the research reinforces that these outcomes depend on a mature digital thread foundation.

Read the full report to understand key barriers and opportunities for digital thread in A&D here.

About the study

EY US surveyed 57 leaders from Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) member organizations and conducted eight in-depth executive interviews to understand how digital thread is being applied in practice. The respondents are primarily from US‑based companies with annual revenues exceeding $100 million and at least three years of investment in digital thread initiatives.

About Aerospace Industries Association

The Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation’s aerospace and defense sector, a key driver of U.S. security, innovation, and economic strength. Since 1919, AIA has advanced policies that support industry competitiveness, workforce development, and technological leadership. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, AIA ensures that our industry remains one of America’s defining success stories — and a foundation for its future.

About EY

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected multidisciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

All in to shape the future with confidence.

EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. EY member firms do not practice law where prohibited by local laws. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com.

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Vigilant Aerospace Supports National Guard Emergency Management Exercise at Camp Grafton

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DEVILS LAKE, N.D., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently supported a National Guard emergency management exercise at Camp Grafton Training Center near Devils Lake, North Dakota, using its FlightHorizon TEMPO and FlightHorizon DEFENDER systems to help participating agencies track crewed and uncrewed aircraft in real time. The exercise brought together public safety agencies, military personnel, federal observers and staff from the University of North Dakota school of Aerospace Sciences.

FlightHorizon TEMPO and DEFENDER were integrated with multiple radars and transponder receivers to display a real-time 3D map of all aircraft. The systems supported search-and-rescue scenarios involving fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, small drones, simulated aircraft and ground response teams.

“As we work together with federal, state, local and tribal first responders, it was great to have support from Vigilant Aerospace,” said Paul Snyder, assistant chair and director of Uncrewed Aircraft System Programs for the UND John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Snyder said the integration provided greater situational awareness for traffic management between crewed and uncrewed aircraft.

The demonstration supported UND Aerospace’s efforts to build a common operating picture across participating agencies, aircraft and first responders. For emergency managers, aircraft deconfliction is critical when helicopters, drones and ground teams converge around an incident. Agencies need real-time airspace awareness to reduce collision risk and coordinate aircraft launch, recovery, and flight path decisions.

FlightHorizon TEMPO provides airspace management, integrating radar, transponders, drone beacons, and autopilot telemetry. FlightHorizon DEFENDER is a portable counter-UAS system (C-UAS) designed to alert operators when aircraft enter protected areas and to distinguish between known and unknown aircraft.

“We believe the future of aviation is a mix of crewed and uncrewed aircraft operating in close coordination with teams on the ground. FlightHorizon provides the real-time visualization and alerting to make this coordination a safe and practical reality,” said Kraettli L. Epperson, CEO of Vigilant Aerospace.

For additional information, contact River Cordova at 415968@email4pr.com or (405) 445-7224.

ABOUT VIGILANT AEROSPACE SYSTEMS

Vigilant Aerospace is the leading independent developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses multi-source data to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. Vigilant Aerospace is based in Oklahoma City.

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Leading Cybersecurity Software Companies Launch AI Proving Grounds Consortium to Help Enterprises Build Trust in AI

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New coalition unites C-level executives, Heads SOC, and AI / Innovation leaders with cybersecurity experts to rigorously train, test, and prove AI defenses in production-like environments; inaugural virtual event scheduled for June 18, 2026

BOSTON, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Corelight, Dropzone AI, SCYTHE, SimSpace, and Sondera today announced the formation of the AI Proving Grounds Consortium (AIPGC), a coalition of cybersecurity experts that helps C-level, SOC, and AI / Innovation leaders quickly and safely move from a proactive cyber defense posture to preemptive cyber resilience by rigorously training, testing, and proving their AI defenses before deploying them to production.

The AIPGC addresses one of the industry’s most urgent challenges: ensuring organizations can trust AI systems operating in mission-critical security environments.

“We’re in an unprecedented time; the weaponization of AI is bigger than any one organization can handle alone. That’s why we’re forming the AIPGC: to pool our collective ideas and cyber expertise to fuel preemptive defenses for the world’s leading organizations,” said Peter Lee, CEO of SimSpace and the primary organizer behind the AIPGC. “AI is transforming cybersecurity at extraordinary speed, but confidence alone is not enough. Organizations need a way to rigorously train, test, and validate AI agents together with human cyber operators under realistic conditions before those teams and systems can be trusted in production.”

The Consortium was formed in response to a widening industry gap between perceived readiness and operational preparedness. Recent SimSpace research found that nearly 80% of security leaders report high confidence in their AI defenses, while measured readiness scores can be as low as 30% before repeated simulation exercises. Additionally, many organizations continue to rely on legacy preparedness methods, including tabletop exercises and certification courses, rather than realistic simulation-driven validation.

The AIPGC aims to help organizations close that gap by enabling leaders to stress-test AI agents and human teams in production-like environments that model sophisticated, real-world adversarial behavior. Through collaboration, training, live exercises, and executive-level discussions, the Consortium seeks to help enterprises safely accelerate AI adoption while strengthening cyber resilience.

The founding Consortium partner organizations include Corelight, Dropzone AI, Scythe, SimSpace, and Sondera.

“AI is becoming a core member of the security team, but trust is the prerequisite for adoption in the SOC. It has to be proven,” said Edward Wu, Founder and CEO of Dropzone AI. “The future of the SOC isn’t a single AI agent. It’s multiple AI agents working together, alongside human analysts, across investigations, threat hunting, intelligence and response. As AI takes on a bigger role in security operations, trust is earned through visibility into how these systems perform in real environments, under real operational pressure, before relying on them in production. This consortium can help establish the benchmarks and standards organizations need to confidently adopt AI and accelerate its full operational impact on security.”

As part of the launch, the AIPGC will host its inaugural virtual event, Move from Proactive Defense to Preemptive Resilience, on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The 90-minute program will feature a keynote presentation from FC, also known as Freakyclown, Co-Founder of Cygenta and former Head of Offensive Cyber Research at Raytheon, followed by a panel discussion and live Q&A focused on building trust in AI prior to deployment to production. To register, click here.

The event will bring together C-level executives, Heads SOC, and AI / Innovation leaders with cybersecurity experts to discuss how organizations can proactively validate AI-driven systems and human performance against evolving threats before introducing those technologies into live production environments.

Organizations interested in joining the Consortium, participating in upcoming events, or requesting the AIPGC Charter can learn more at www.aipgc.ai.

About the AI Proving Grounds Consortium (AIPGC)
The AI Proving Grounds Consortium (AIPGC) is a collaborative initiative uniting industry leaders, researchers, and technology innovators to advance the safe, measurable, and real-world validation of AI systems in cybersecurity and beyond. Built on the belief that AI must be proven under realistic conditions before it can be trusted in production, the Consortium promotes rigorous testing, continuous evaluation, and shared best practices across people, processes, technologies, and AI. AIPGC provides a forum for members to collaborate on realistic simulations, agentic workflow validation, operational readiness, and the responsible adoption of AI-driven capabilities. By bringing together organizations across the cybersecurity ecosystem, the Consortium helps close the gap between AI innovation and proven operational performance.

About the AIPGC Partner Organizations

Corelight – a leader in network detection and response (NDR), fueling the AI SOC with industry-leading data and detectionsDropzone AI – the leading agentic SOC companySCYTHE – the leading Adversarial Exposure Validation platform, continuously testing organizational cyber defenses to prove whether they actually workSimSpace – the realistic cyber simulation infrastructure for continuously training, testing, and validating AI agents.Sondera – the real-time control plane for enterprise AI agents, providing deterministic, policy-as-code guardrails that govern what agents are allowed to do in production.

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Amy Rice
Amy.rice@simspace.com
508-978-6635

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Jobiqo Launches the Hellenic Career Center with AHEPA Chapter 528 for the AHEPA Family of Organizations and the Greek American Community

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PALM DESERT, Calif., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Award-winning job board software provider, Jobiqo, today announced the launch of the AHEPA Hellenic Career Center (HellenicCareerCenter.com) as part of TheJobNetwork™, which campaigns jobs over a vast network of job sites and a large recruitment ad network in North America. This new recruitment advertising resource is a service for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) that quickly and efficiently connects highly qualified candidates with participating companies through AI-enhanced candidate-matching technology.

With Jobiqo’s best-in-class job board platform and partner company Veritone’s AI-enabled programmatic ad distribution system, AHEPA Hellenic Career Center participants can benefit from the new career center, engineered to deliver superior job ad performance and high-quality candidates to employers and recruiters.

Membership in TheJobNetwork™ also provides proprietary job-matching technology consisting of highly accurate, artificial intelligence algorithms. For employers, job matching saves recruiters’ time by automatically matching qualified applicants. For job seekers, the matching technology provides a superior user experience and increased engagement by delivering highly relevant jobs that they are both interested in and qualified for.

Jobiqo’s Director of Partnerships for North America, George M. Dratelis, who is also an AHEPA member, said, “I am very pleased to be working with my AHEPA Chapter 528 President Wynn Storton on launching and managing this valuable service that provides advanced AI-powered assistance for both job seekers and employers in the Greek American community with a service that is also open to the public.” 

Wynn Storton added, “I am grateful that as we prepare to attend the 2026 AHEPA District 20 Family Convention in Tucson, our Chapter 528 will present the AHEPA Hellenic Career Center to the AHEPA Family for the benefit of everyone in our organizations.”  

AHEPA Chapter 528, based in Palm Desert, California, is proud to take the initiative to help the AHEPA family of organizations with talent acquisition and recruitment advertising. The new Hellenic Career Center is a free resource for all members, including the Daughters of Penelope, Sons of Pericles, and Maids of Athena. Participating chapters that add the AHEPA Hellenic Career Center (HCC) logo and link to their website are enrolled as revenue-share partners for every job posted on their website. Please like and follow the AHEPA Hellenic Career Center Facebook page at facebook.com/AHEPAHellenicCareerCenter for more information and ongoing news about this service.

ABOUT JOBIQO
Jobiqo has been at the forefront of job board and recruitment advertising software for over a decade, providing partners worldwide with the tools to engage talent and monetize their audiences effectively. Jobiqo offers a feature-rich turnkey job board solution, advanced SEO capabilities, and AI-enabled search & matching technology. Clients include the United Way Worldwide Career Center and The New York Times. Jobiqo is the 2024 and 2026 Winner of the Digital Job Advertising Excellence Award (DJAx) for Best Supplier to the Job Board Industry.

ABOUT AHEPA
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) is a U.S.-based Greek American organization dedicated to advancing its mission: “to promote Hellenism, Education, Philanthropy, Civic Responsibility, Family and Individual Excellence.” Through community service, cultural awareness, and charitable initiatives, AHEPA supports Hellenic values and strengthens the communities it serves.

CONTACT INFO:
George M. Dratelis
Jobiqo – TheJobNetwork™
774-777-9901
415652@email4pr.com

Wynn Storton
AHEPA Chapter 528
760-832-2825
415652@email4pr.com

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