August 8th, 2013—Vice President of Boeing research & technology Mr. Don Winter, Vice President of Boeing research & technology China Dr. Dongyang Wu and Vice President of Digital Aviation Technology of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Mr. Alan Johnson visited Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. President of SARI Dr. Feng Songlin received the Boeing delegation, accompanied by Dr. Xu Haoyu, Director of the Joint Lab for Aviation Connectivity Technology and other related researchers.

On behalf of SARI, President Feng Songlin expressed warm welcome to Boeing delegation and introduced SARI’s strategic development plan, as well as some related ongoing projects. Xu Haoyu thanked Boeing for its long-term support, then showcased the Joint Lab’s projects and achievements.
After that, Alan Johnson made a presentation on Digital Aviation, which well illustrated Boeing’s planning and efforts in the field of digital aviation. Dongyang Wu thought highly of the achievements of the joint lab and hoped that the two parties would go further in the related areas. Agreements on future collaboration had been reached after some in-depth discussion in the end.
After the meeting, the delegation visited the joint lab and watched the demonstration of some on-going projects, and discussed with the researchers on some technical topics.

Lab Inspection

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