A 20-year strategic roadmap detailing how airlines, airframers, and avionics manufacturers must coordinate the global transition to quantum-safe airborne systems.
Commercial aircraft produced today will remain in revenue flight service through 2050 and beyond. Because avionic retrofits require extensive flight testing and regulatory recertification from the FAA and EASA, airframers must design modular crypto-agility into flight architectures immediately to avert catastrophic obsolescence when quantum computers emerge.
An overview of international aeronautical standards development, tracking how RTCA SC-216 and EUROCAE WG-72 are incorporating NIST FIPS 203 and FIPS 204 into the next revision of airworthiness security guidelines (DO-326A / ED-202A).
Engineering post-quantum secure field-loadable software updates (ARINC 615A), preventing hostile actors from introducing compromised flight management software during airport turnaround maintenance.