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New Products

Software Upgrade Avidyne, Lincoln, Mass., released a software upgrade for its EX500 multifunction displays (MFD). The company said the software expands the range of XM WX Satellite Weather data displayed and simplifies…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: An Epic Transition

By the time you read this, progress toward the Next Generation Air Transportation System will be at or near some significant waypoints. The multiagency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) facilitating NextGen…

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Industry Scan

Analyses: FAA, JPDO Challenged To Achieve NextGen FAA and the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) planning the Next Generation Air Transportation System face challenges of funding, program management and coordination across…

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People

Steve Schneps BAE Systems named Steve Schneps vice president of operations for its Electronics & Integrated Solutions operating group. Schneps previously served as director of operations for several of the unit’s major…

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Calendar

August 6-9 Unmanned Systems North America 2007, Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Contact Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International, phone 703-845-9671 or visit www.auvsi.org. 9-11 Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition,…

Commercial

Counter MANPADS: Live-fire finale?

After four years of test and development, the two systems competing to protect commercial aircraft from man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) will get a chance to prove themselves against live fire this…

Business & GA

Glassed-In

It’s hard to believe, but in August, glass cockpits in production civil aircraft will have been in use for a quarter of a century. On Aug. 19, 1982, I and other aviation…

Military

Military: Airborne, Networked Radio

As the U.S. military moved out of the shadows of the Cold War and into the global war on terror, it became apparent that new tactics and technologies would be needed to…

Business & GA

Q&A: Achieving NextGen: RTCA’s Vision

Organized in 1935 as the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, RTCA develops consensus-based recommendations that are used by FAA as the basis for policy, program and regulatory decisions. The private, not-for-profit corporation…