http://www.aviationtoday.com Aviation Today en-us 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:48 EDT Esterline CMC Electronics has been awarded a contract by Borsigh to supply its TacView Portable Mission Display for the U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command Real Time Information in the Cockpit (RTIC) Full Rate Production (FRP) program. The contract covers dual installations of the TacView... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/TacView-Display-Selected-by-National-Guard_79465.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin on the first day of the 2013 Paris Air Show signed an agreement with Quebec-based CAE, designating the flight training company as a preferred in-country provider of F-35 training support.      (Steve O’Bryan, of Lockheed Martin--right--signing the MoU with Gene... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Paris-Lockheed-CAE-form-F-35-Lightning-II-Training-Alliance_79508.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, received a $90.6 million contract to provide Saudi Arabia with LONGBOW Fire Control Radars (FCR) for the AH-64 Apaches... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Saudi-Arabia-Selects-LONGBOW-FCRs-for-Apaches_79487.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) on Wednesday conducted the first east coast flight with Insitu's RQ-21A unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at its Patuxent River, Md., base.      (RQ-21A takes its first flight from Webster Field Annex, an outlying field to Naval Air Station Patuxent River... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/NAVAIR-Advances-RQ-21A-Flight-Testing_79490.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT Thales' new I-Master radar system completed test flights on a Diamond DA42MPP GUARDIAN aircraft recently, during a week-long trial in Austria.    During the flights, I-Master was used to transmit high resolution radar images and infrared footage via a high-bandwidth... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Thales-I-Master-Radar-Completes-Test-Flights_79456.html Mon, 10 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT The increase in military and civilian use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in recent years has lead to an increase in the need for components that power these platforms, and Rolls-Royce has had success in the past, and seems ready for the projected multi-billion growth of the unmanned market over the next... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Rolls-Royce-Sees-Opportunity-for-Unmanned-Engine-Growth_79441.html Thu, 6 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT   AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Nav Canada Contract Satellite-based global air traffic surveillance provider Aireon finalized a long-term, commercial data services contract with Canada’s civil air navigation service provider (ANSP) Nav Canada. Aireon is a joint venture between Nav Canada and... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Industry-Scan_79250.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT  Unlike the U.S.airlines, the U.S. military is still flying and supporting aircraft with avionics systems whose technological heyday is long past. These systems — as well as those of more recent vintage — require constant monitoring to ensure they stay up and running. And, when problems... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Military-Maintenance-Meeting-the-Challenge_79258.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT Companies providing support systems, such as data and video buses and connectors, are under pressure to address the shifting technology needs for new and older aircraft. Industry demands for greater bandwidth and size, weight and power (SWaP) use reductions, for example, are sparking the growth of advanced... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Product-Focus-Databus-and-Connector-Technologies_79260.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT BAE Systems was awarded a $34 million contract to provide its Mode 5 Advanced Identification Friend or Foe (AIFF) system for the U.S. Air Force fleet of F-16s.      (F-16. Photo, courtesy of BAE Systems.)   The system will replace older IFF technology on the F-16s... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/US-Air-Force-to-Supply-IFF-Systems-for-F-16_79363.html Wed, 29 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT