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February 10, 2012
Airbus has conducted what it is calling the world's first flight using a four-dimensional optimized and upgraded air traffic management (ATM) technology to fly more accurate and efficient routes, the airframe manufacturer said Friday. The test, using Airbus's dedicated A320 test aircraft flying from Toulouse, France, to Copenhagen...February 8, 2012
Air France selected Lufthansa Systems' Lido/Flight flight planning system, which calculates optimal flight routes, under a five-year contract announced Tuesday. The system, a component of the Integrated Operations Control Center (IOCC) from Lufthansa Systems, provides dispatchers with many optimization options regarding flight time, fuel consumption or costs of each flight. The contract also covers several...February 7, 2012
Congress passed long-awaited, long-term FAA funding authorization on Monday, funding the agency through 2015 and giving a big boost to the agency's multi-billion-dollar Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen) initiative. The four-year, $63.4 billion "FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act" passed the Senate on Monday by a 75-20...February 6, 2012
FAA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin on Monday announced that six sites have achieved initial operating capability in the En Route Modernization (ERAM) program. ERAM is now operational at Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Albuquerque, Minneapolis and Denver. The centers in Salt Lake City and Seattle have been fully operational for more than a year. ERAM, which replaces a 40-year-old system used at...February 2, 2012
Workshops and conference sessions at this year's ATC Global Exhibition and Conference will bring together leaders in the international air traffic management community, discussing the regulatory and technological issues facing the future of the global airspace. Speakers at the event, held March 6-8 in Amsterdam, the...February 1, 2012
President Obama and military leaders in Washington in early January outlined a new, streamlined military strategy, following the end of the war in Iraq, which sounded very much like an earnings call of a Fortune 500 company. The words might be slightly different but the themes are very similar — gaining efficiencies; working smarter, not harder; do more with less. Following a decade of war, the...February 1, 2012
MILITARY Curtiss-Wright Division Curtiss-Wright Controls announced the formation of a Defense Solutions business group, combining its Embedded Computing and Electronics Systems businesses to better address the industry’s need for more cost-efficient commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems. The new Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions (CWCDS), headquartered in Ashburn, Va., will offer a more...February 1, 2012
IFE App Innotech Aviation, of Montreal, and Esoteric, of Irvine, Calif., introduced the SkyPad app, allowing users of Innotech’s I-Ku broadband system to use their own personal iPads as the controller of the SkyPad luxury in-flight entertainment system (IFE). SkyPad entertainment and cabin control system is integrated with the iPad and Ku-Band Internet. The system combines audio/video compression and...February 1, 2012
Vincent Buffa Data Device Corp. (DDC), of Bohemia, N.Y., appointed Vincent Buffa to president. Buffa has held leadership positions in engineering, sales, marketing, operations and program management. Prior to joining DDC, he was president of Crane Company’s Energy Flow Solutions, business group president at Rexnord Aerospace, general manager at Honeywell Fuel Systems and vice president of...February 1, 2012
February 11-14 Heli-Expo 2012, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Visit www.heliexpo.com. 14-19 Singapore Airshow 2012, Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Visit www.singaporeairshow.com. 22 Enhancing Your Flight Operations With Global Voice and Data Connectivity, an Avionics Magazine Webinar sponsored by Thrane & Thrane. 11 a.m. ET. Visit www.aviationtoday.com/webinars/2012-0222.html. 28-March 1 Asian...January 25, 2012
Canada’s Air Creebec will equip its Q-Series (Dash 8) fleet with Wide Area Augmentation System/Satellite-Based Augmentation System Flight Management Systems (WAAS/SBAS-FMS) and Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems (TAWS) from Universal Avionics, based in Tucson, Ariz. Air Creebec selected Universal Avionics’ UNS-1Lw WAAS/SBAS-FMS, with a 4-inch Flat Panel Control Display Unit and a...January 23, 2012
Thales has been selected to provide air traffic control systems for Mexico's air navigation service provider SENEAM, the company said Monday. Under the terms of the contract, Thales will provide its Instrumental Landing System (ILS) associated with Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and VHF...January 20, 2012
JetBlue Airways selected the Integrated Traffic Management System from PASSUR Aerospace for deployment at its system operations center and throughout its network, the companies announced Thursday. The system is a web-hosted integrated business intelligence platform that targets key constraints through the entire lifecycle of a flight, to optimize fuel costs and emissions, schedule integrity, and...January 19, 2012
A program that will overhaul the way information is sent in the National Airspace System (NAS) is picking up steam, with a major contract under the Data Communications program set to be handed out in June. FAA last year sent out a solicitation for bidders for its Data Communications Integrated Services (DCIS) contract, under its Data Comm program, a foundational program of the mutli-billion dollar...January 13, 2012
Saab Sensis, based in Syracuse, N.Y., was awarded a five-year contract for FAA's Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC) program. FAA has incrementally funded $5 million of the $54 million, five-year contract. In addition, options for deliveries beyond the five-year period are valued at $65 million, for a total contract value of $119 million. ASSC is a program that will bring enhanced surface...January 10, 2012
The new Namibian air traffic control center, equipped with Thales systems, is now operational in Windhoek, Thales said Tuesday. Under the contract, which Thales signed three years ago, Thales supplied its Eurocat...January 1, 2012
AIA: Sluggish Economy, Defense Cuts to Hit Aerospace Industry Despite a sluggish overall economy and major cuts looming in the defense sector, the U.S. aerospace industry saw its eighth straight year of growth in 2011, with annual sales of $218 billion, according to the Aerospace Industries Association’s (AIA) year-end forecast and review. However, 2012 is expected to bring changes. The forecast...January 1, 2012
VITA 67 RF Module TE Connectivity (TE), of Harrisburg, Pa., added VITA 67 RF modules, designed to enhance the ability to add RF capabilities in VITA 46 VPX board-to-board connections. The modules, available with four or eight positions, accept SMPM coaxial contacts available for a wide range of flexible and semi-rigid cable on the daughtercard and preloaded board-mount SMPM contacts on the backplane. The...January 1, 2012
Michelle James Universal Avionics Systems, based in Tucson, Ariz., promoted Michelle James to director of marketing and communications. She will be responsible for all of the company’s advertising and campaigns, as well as exhibit and convention activities. James has been with Universal Avionics for more than 10 years, starting as a document control specialist and working up to her most recent...January 1, 2012
January 19-21 Bahrain International Air Show 2012, Sakhir Air Base, Bahrain. Visit www.farnborough.com. February 11-14 Heli-Expo 2012, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Visit www.heliexpo.com. 14-19 Singapore Airshow 2012, Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Visit www.singaporeairshow.com. 28-March 1 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation...
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