The Military Aviation Authority publishes Notices of Proposed Amendment all year round. Each NPA proposes a change to the MAA Regulatory Publications, sets out the rationale and an impact assessment, and gives the Regulated Community a fixed window to comment. Once that window closes, the NPA comes off the MAA website.
If you work to the MRP, you are expected to know which of those changes touch your Regulatory Articles. That is the hard part.
Take an NPA to MAA02, the Master Glossary. It sounds administrative. Read it properly and you find it pulls new definitions of Air Safety, Configuration Management and Cyber Security for Airworthiness into terms that sit across RA 1202, RA 5890, RA 5301 and RA 5012. One glossary change, several articles you actually own.
In practice, plenty of teams often only find out about a relevant NPA once it has already closed. A colleague forwards the PDF after the comment window has shut, by which point the amended definition is in force and the team's evidence still carries the old wording. RegWatch works in real time instead. When a new NPA is published, it appears on RegWatch the same day, often within the hour, while the consultation is still open and there is time to respond.
What RegWatch does
RegWatch is a free tool on the Coracademy site. You tell it two things: your role, and what you work on. It returns the live NPAs that matter to you, each one distilled into plain English, with the specific Regulatory Articles it touches and a short read on what the change means for your work. That saves you trawling the MAA website, and working through a fifteen-page consultation to find the two paragraphs that apply to you.
The example above was live at the time of writing (June 2026). Like every NPA, it carries a closing date, after which the MAA withdraws it. Pick "Avionics Software Engineer" and "Fixed Wing Fast Jets", press Show Results, and RegWatch surfaces NPA/26/11. It flags the impact as moderate and explains why a glossary change reaches into avionics software work: the expanded Air Safety definition now covers Cyber Security for Airworthiness, which brings avionics software and its development tooling into scope.
The output sits in two columns. The first, "Why this affects you", explains the relevance in plain terms. The second, "What to do", sets out points worth considering, with the relevant articles named: reviewing the updated definitions against the terminology in your software lifecycle and configuration evidence, cross-referenced to RA 1202, RA 5890, RA 5301, RA 5012 and RA 5103.
Every result carries its closing date, so you can see how long the comment window remains open.
Over a decade of experience, plus current AI
Here is what sits underneath.
The first ingredient is over a decade of hands-on experience across cyber security, software and hardware in UK military aviation, the background co-founder Dan Locke brings from his work across the MoD and UK MAA. That experience shapes how RegWatch reads regulation: what a change to RA 5890 means in practice, which roles a glossary amendment really touches, and where the impact lands.
The second is current AI tooling. The AI reads the full NPA, its impact assessment and the affected Regulatory Articles, holds the dense MOD terminology against the rest of the MRP, and produces a plain-English summary mapped to roles and platforms. The experience sets the standard the AI works to, and adds surety to the assessments it produces.
This approach lines up with where UK Defence is heading. On 10 June 2026 the Government launched the Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce (RAID) to get AI-enabled tools into the hands of the Armed Forces faster, alongside a clear condition: AI in Defence operates within strict assurance and meaningful human oversight. RegWatch is built on the same principle. Reading regulatory language written for specialists, and returning a plain-English explanation a non-specialist can understand, is the kind of task this pairing handles well.
How to access RegWatch
RegWatch is free and needs no account. Open Coratools in the top navigation and choose RegWatch from the dropdown, or go straight to coracademy.co.uk/coratools/regwatch. Choose your role, choose your platform, and press Show Results. The live NPAs that affect you appear straight away, most recent first, each with its impact level, the articles it touches, and the date it closes.
Try it on your own role
RegWatch tracks MAA NPAs across roles and platforms, updated as new consultations open and closing dates approach. It is a quick way to find out whether the latest change to the MRP lands on an article you own.
If your team is working through DO-326A and the cyber airworthiness artefacts behind RA 5890, our two-day Cyber Security Airworthiness course covers the Airworthiness Risk Management Framework in full. You produce a skeleton PSecAC yourself and run a security risk assessment on a fictional aircraft architecture, with full coverage of the MAA's RA 5890 position alongside the civil EASA and FAA framework.
The next NPA that affects your articles may already be open. RegWatch will show you which one.