CommercialBoeing Creates UAS Division Boeing announced Monday the creation of an Unmanned Airborne Systems (UAS) division within its defense and space business unit. Boeing said the new unit will assume program management responsibility for the A160T…
CommercialBarco Receives MDU-268 Display Order Avionics display provider Barco received an order from Highland Integrated Surveillance Systems Inc. (HISS), based in Toronto, Canada, for its MDU-268 avionics-grade mission display units. The units will be installed aboard 30…
CommercialThales to Deliver Ground Surveillance System Thales said Thursday it will install its Surface Traffic Enhancement and Automation Support (STREAMS) system at the Manchester Boston Regional Airport (MHT), as part of the FAA's Low-Cost Ground Surveillance (LCGS) program.…
CommercialSESAR Injects Funds in ATM Research Eurocontrol's SESAR Joint Undertaking (JU) said Friday it signed 16 contracts valued at $2.7 billion for the creation of Europe's future air traffic management system. The mission of the SESAR JU is to ensure…
MilitaryRaytheon Submits KillerBee to Navy Raytheon said Wednesday it submitted its KillerBee unmanned aircraft system in response to the U.S. Navy's Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Tier II request for proposal. The KillerBee UAS, with its…
MilitaryE-2D Begins Next Phase of Flight Tests Northrop Grumman's first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye test aircraft began the next phase of flight testing, performing a test flight in Maryland this week in preparation for Initial Operational Test and Evaluation in…
MilitaryEsterline Names New COO Esterline Corp., of Bellevue, Wash., named R. Bradley "Brad" Lawrence to the new position of president and chief operating officer (COO). Robert W. Cremin, who is relinquishing his role as president, continues…
MilitaryBoeing P-8A Poseidon T2 Completes First Flight Boeing said Friday its P-8A Poseidon test aircraft T2 completed its first successful test flight. The flight took off from Renton Field at 10:32 a.m. Pacific time and landed two hours and 56…
MilitaryLockheed ‘Sniper’ Pods Flying On A-10Cs Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force completed site activations of the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP), equipping A-10C Thunderbolt II units at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., and Spangdahlem AFB, Germany. A further…
CommercialAmerican to Test NextGen Technologies An American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami this week will test green technologies as part of FAA's NextGen program. On Thursday, as part of the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE),…