Business & GAProduct Focus: COTS Operating Systems: Boarding the Boeing 787 Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the foundation software for computing systems. They manage the computers' other software programs and orchestrate these programs' requests for services. And they must be robust enough to…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Repair Station Controversy In our repair station outlook we refer to a "dynamic" market facing changes and challenges. What we don't mention is the controversy the repair station industry currently faces. In the United States…
CommercialEurope Europe FAA lists more than 1,300 repair stations throughout the world. Unable to list all of the repair stations, we nevertheless include some of the key providers of avionics and instrument support.…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Software Tool Set Racal Instruments Inc. has announced newWave, a tool set to help implement and use the new Signal Definition Standard, IEEE 1641. It allows signal definition exports into ATML, C++…
CommercialNorth and Latin America FAA lists more than 1,300 repair stations throughout the world. Unable to list all of the repair stations, we nevertheless include some of the key providers of avionics and instrument support. We…
Business & GAPeople McMillan, President Michael McMillan has been named president of Meggitt/S-TEC, Mineral Wells, Texas. The 30-year aviation veteran served most recently as a founding vice president with Piaggio America. Before that he spent…
CommercialPerspectives: Reusable Software in Integrated Avionics The advent of reusable software components (RSC), coupled with the emergence of integrated modular avionics (IMA), represents a new way to do business. We recently saw the certification of the first RSC,…
Business & GARepair Stations: Growth and New Challenges That the repair station business is growing should be no surprise, given the rise in aircraft use in both the air transport and corporate aviation sectors. But the repair station business, while…
ATM ModernizationReusable Software Components: Will They Save Time and Money? A little heralded document issued by FAA in December 2004 describes how software developers and avionics manufacturers can obtain limited approval of software components that can be reused in many other aircraft…
Business & GAScan STASYS Acquisition Lockheed Martin Corp. has completed the acquisition of UK-based STASYS Ltd. The firm, which specializes in network communications and defense interoperability, will bring to Lockheed Martin its experience in tactical…