For more than 70 years, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been the principal society of the aerospace engineer and scientist. But we haven’t always been AIAA, or even one organization. In 1963, the two great aerospace societies of the day merged. The American Rocket Society and the Institute of Aerospace Science* joined to become AIAA. Both...

The Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. shapes public policy that ensures the U.S. aerospace, defense, and homeland security industry remains preeminent and that its members are successful and profitable in a changing global market. Today, more than 300 major aerospace and defense companies and their suppliers are members of the association, embodying every high-technology manufacturing segment of the...