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| 10.01.2006 |
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New Products
Multi I/O Board Data Device Corp. (DDC) has unveiled a multiprotocol PMC card for Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC 429 data bus applications. The BU-655590F/M packages a wide array of functions, including up to four dual-redundant Mil-Std-1553 channels, 16 ARINC 429...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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People
Bob Kramer Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, has named Bob Kramer as senior vice president of marketing and strategic development. An 18-year employee of Lockheed, he is responsible for overseeing business relations...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Perspectives: Combining Safety, Security Certifications
Today's digital aircraft are large distributed computing systems. Each of these nodes is certified to perform its functions safely. To date, there is no formal mandate for FAA to include security issues in its system certifications. However, as...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Q&A: Closing Network Gaps
The Quint Networking Technology (QNT) program under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to take network centric operations to the next level. Although the agency considers the effort to be "medium risk," it wants to...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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What is RTSP?
At A Glance: Required total system performance (RTSP) is more than an abstraction. It is a concept of growing importance in air traffic management (ATM) as designers plan how to accommodate traffic growth. This article discusses RTSP and subordinate concepts...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Satcom: Broadband in the Cabin
At A Glance: Despite the demise of Connexion, there is still demand for broadband and near- broadband connectivity. We discuss: Service providers, including Inmarsat, ARINC, OnAir, AeroMobile, Satcom Direct and AirCell; and Equipment suppliers, such as CMC...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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C-130, KC-10 to Get Avionics Upgrades Boeing has received contracts to be a part of two teams conducting modernization programs for separate U.S. Air Force aircraft-the C-130 and KC-10. Under a USAF agreement worth up to $56.3 million, Boeing will lead a team...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Calendar
September 18-20 Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) 2006 Military Logistics Summit, Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner, Va. Contact IDGA, phone 800-882-8684 and +973 256 0211, e-mail info@idga.org or visit...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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European Air Traffic Surveillance: A Combination Approach
Once air traffic surveillance meant "Mk 1 eyeballs" scanning the airspace from a tall tower. Then came radar, which extended oversight well beyond visual range, becoming the surveillance mainstay for six decades. Recently, however, new automatic...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Q&A: Lessons Learned From Las Vegas
Performance-based area navigation (RNAV) procedures allow more efficient and cost-effective use of the National Airspace System (NAS) by freeing aircraft from dependence on ground-based navaids. But these improvements don't come into being without...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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New Products
Flight Displays, Digital Map System Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium has announced a line of flight and mission displays, the CHDD-2000 family. The company also has partnered with EuroAvionics of Hausen, Germany, to produce a digital map display system for the...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Perspectives: Joint Symposium, AEEC Evolution
For the second year running, Avionics Magazine and AEEC (the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee) will co-host a symposium to highlight topics that are likely to require standardization in the coming years. This event, which will be held Oct. 12, during...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Push To ADS-B ACSS plans to begin development flight tests of its SafeRoute automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) software in October 2006, using a company King Air and a Convair from the FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City, N.J. Flight tests on...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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Calendar
August 27-September 1 CANEUS 2006, a conference focusing on micro and nanotechnology in aerospace applications, Toulouse Convention Center, Toulouse, France. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, phone 800-843-2763 (U.S. and Canada) and...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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New Products
XM Radio Added To Avidyne MFD Avidyne Corp. of Lincoln, Mass., and Heads Up Technologies, Carrollton, Texas, are partnering to a provide XM Satellite Radio services on Avidyne's EX500 multifunction displays with XM's WX Satellite Weather data link...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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People
Norman Mineta Norman Mineta, the 14th secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), resigned his position, effective last month. Deputy Secretary Maria Cino has been named the acting DOT head. The nearly 60,000-employee agency, which includes FAA...
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AESA Radar Enters Operational Evaluation The U.S. Navy has cleared Raytheon's APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to enter the service's operational evaluation (OPEVAL) program. The APG-79 will be used on the Navy's Boeing F/A-18E/F Super...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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WAAS Milestone: Cat I Equivalence
The U.S. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) has been approved for instrument approaches down to 200 feet above ground level (AGL), giving it equivalence to Cat I ILS. In March, FAA's GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) reached a new level of...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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Editor's Note: ADS-B and the Road Ahead
The wheels move slowly in the air traffic control (ATC) world: the current radar-based surveillance infrastructure used in the National Airspace System (NAS) has been in place for some 50 years. That's why the FAA administrator's announcement in May of plans...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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ADS-B Launch: Performance-Based Strategy
In early June 2006 the FAA's senior-level Joint Resources Council (JRC) approved Administrator Marion Blakey's choice of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology for next-generation surveillance in the National Airspace System (NAS). JRC...
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