Military

Northrop Grumman Completes Sensor Flight Tests

Northrop Grumman said Thursday it completed initial testing of the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor. All dedicated mode flights have been completed in the Radar System Level Performance Verification (RSLPV)…

Commercial

GE Aviation to Develop Wireless Technology

GE Aviation is developing wireless data gathering and transmission technology for aircraft applications in support of the WiTNESSS (WIreless Technologies for Novel Enhancement of Systems and Structures Serviceability) initiative.  The WiTNESSS consortium…

Business & GA

Cobham Awaits Part 25 SVS Approval

Cobham Avionics is “within weeks” of obtaining FAA supplemental type certification of a synthetic vision system (SVS) on a Part 25 transport-category aircraft, which will be its first such SVS certification, the…

Military

Insitu Invests in Canadian UAV Market

Boeing subsidiary Insitu on Thursday announced the first $25 million in contracts to Canadian companies as part of a government order for small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) services. The Canadian government in…

Military

Raytheon Awarded AESA Contract

Raytheon was awarded a $54 million U.S. Navy contract to retrofit Super Hornet block II aircraft with APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars. The award by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent…

Commercial

ASG Awarded Satcom STC

Avionics Support Group (ASG), a Miami-based avionics systems integration, engineering, installation and manufacturing company, was awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) from FAA to install a Rockwell Collins SAT 2000 Inmarsat satellite communications…

Commercial

Egyptair Selects OnAir System

Egyptair announced plans Tuesday to install Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir in-flight passenger communications services on its fleet of Airbus 330-300s. These will be delivered over an 18 month period, starting August…

Military

B-52 Communications Upgraded

Boeing's B-52 Stratofortress upgraded with Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) made its first flight, flying for 3 1/2 hours on May 21 from Boeing's facility in Wichita, Kan. The modification equips the aircraft with new…

Business & GA

Babbitt Confirmed as FAA Administrator

J. Randolph "Randy" Babbitt, a former airline pilot and former Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) president, was confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate as the next FAA administrator. He is expected to…

Commercial

Panasonic, American Airlines in IFE Pact

Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., signed an agreement with American Airlines to install its Digital Overhead AudioVideo System on multiple aircraft in its fleet. As part of this agreement, Panasonic will install…