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January 30, 2013
The U.S. Coast Guard recently completed a successful Functional Check Flight of an HC-130H enhanced with an advanced avionics upgrade from Rockwell Collins under the Coast Guard’s Avionics 1 Upgrade program, the company said Wednesday. The flight marked the completion of a cockpit and avionics upgrade managed by Rockwell Collins. The upgrade includes incorporation of four multi-function displays, a...January 29, 2013
Gilat Satellite Networks' subsidiary Wavestream has been awarded a contract by Honeywell to supply Ka-band transceivers for integration into airborne antenna systems to provide in-flight connectivity to the Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) network. Scaled production for the transceivers is expected to begin in 2014. Honeywell and Inmarsat signed an agreement in April 2012 to provide global...January 29, 2013
International Communications Group (ICG) and Boeing completed an installation of the ICG NxtLink Series ICS-220A Iridium system on a Boeing 747-400. The EL AL Airlines aircraft is the first of several being outfitted to fly international routes using Future Air Navigation System (FANS-1/A) over Iridium (FOI) services, the company said. “This is the second Boeing model to have an ICG Iridium system...January 29, 2013
UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Airbus ProSky signed an agreement starting the first phase of project to restructure the UAE airspace. The study will be conducted by Airbus ProSky and deliver a comprehensive report in the summer of 2013. Airbus ProSky said its team will meet with all airspace users, navigation services providers and airports of the UAE and will analyze historical data to...January 28, 2013
Elbit Systems signed a three-year $35 million contract with the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) to develop advanced...January 28, 2013
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he believes the $1.2 trillion sequester scheduled to occur in March is going to happen. Sequestration has the possibility of triggering thousands of job cuts in the U.S. aerospace and defense industries. Congress recently delayed action on sequestration until March, as part of the fiscal cliff federal budget re-structuring deal. Aerospace Industries Association...January 25, 2013
International Communications Group (ICG), of Newport News, Va., has completion of testing and receipt of Iridium Certified Equipment (ICE) designation for its NxtLink ICS-220A Iridium Communications System. The approval acknowledges that the ICS-220A has successfully fulfilled the requirements and functionality specified by Iridium for interfacing with its on-orbit satellite constellation. Testing was...January 25, 2013
Maldives national carrier Maldivian Airlines has selected U.K.-based IFE Services to provide in-flight entertainment for its...January 25, 2013
NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is conducting missions to study the impact of atmospheric change on the Earth’s climate, the manufacturer said. The missions are part of the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) campaign, studying the region of the upper...January 24, 2013
ITT Exelis filed a formal protest with FAA over the $331 million datacomm contract awarded to Harris Corp. in September, Avionics Magazine has learned. The protest, which was filed in November with FAA's Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA) for review, asks the agency to review "aspects of the evaluation that warrant further review," ITT said in a...January 24, 2013
Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems have extended their Data Link Solutions (DLS) joint venture, the provider of the Link-16 military networked communications solution. (The Data Link Solutions MIDS-LVT) The two companies first established DLS in 1996, which now...January 24, 2013
San Jose, Costa Rica-based avionics engineering company Avionyx S.A. has appointed Peter Lyons as its new...January 23, 2013
AeroVironment, of Monrovia, Calif., has been awarded a $12 million contract from NAVAIR’s Program Office for Navy & Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263), working collaboratively with the Army’s Counter-IED Program Office, for AeroVironment Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft systems, initial spares packages, training...January 23, 2013
Naviair, the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for Denmark, has selected Saab Sensis Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) for surveillance of flights over Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Naviair will be providing ADS-B data of equipped en route flights to the Reykjavik Control Area Center. The Naviair system will enable reduced flight separation between equipped aircraft and provide...January 23, 2013
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $2.15 million contract to ITT Exelis to research the development of low-cost GPS capabilities to aid end-users located in signal-constrained environments. Exelis said the 18-month initial...January 22, 2013
Row 44, of Westlake Village, Calif., said its in-flight entertainment and connectivity service, which includes high-speed Internet, shopping, destination services, and real-time flight map with updates, has been installed on 400 Southwest Airlines aircraft, the companies said Tuesday. "The 400th installation of broadband capabilities on our fleet is a particularly significant milestone for...January 22, 2013
(UPDATED) The European Aviation Safety Agency has recertified an upgraded Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS) at L-3 Link’s Asian Aviation Training Center (AATC) in Thailand to a Level D type rating. (AATC's A320 FFS) Level D is the highest achievable FFS certification, granted by EASA and FAA. The rating requires an FFS motion...January 18, 2013
Garmin on Tuesday released a new series of VHF comm and navcom radios with features that are compliant with the 8.33 kHz channel spacing mandate recently enacted by the European Union as part of its Single European Sky (SES) initiative. The new GTR 225 (VHF COM) and GNC 255 (VHF NAV/COM) radios feature an internal database that displays the station identifier when a pilot tunes a specific...January 17, 2013
The U.S. Army is exercising a $90.6 million option with Lockheed Martin for sustainment of the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system for its...January 16, 2013
United Airlines launched in-flight connectivity powered by Panasonic Avionics’ Ku-band satellite service on its first commercial flight Tuesday. United is the first U.S.-based carrier to offer passengers Wi-Fi internet connectivity on long-haul trans-oceanic flights. The first plane to be outfitted...
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