Military

Bell-Boeing Office Awarded Navy V-22 Contract

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office was awarded a $42.1 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy for non-recurring engineering to develop, qualify, test and integrate an integrated avionics processor into the avionics system architecture for…

Military

Rockwell Collins Wins Air Force Contract

Rockwell Collins was awarded a $208.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide for the Senior Leadership Command Control, and Communications System - Airborne Communications program. Under terms of the contract, Rockwell…

Military

Elbit-Thales JV Awarded UAS Contract

UAS Tactical Systems Ltd. (U-TacS), a U.K.-based joint venture of Elbit Systems and Thales U.K., was awarded a $70 million contract to provide Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) services for the Watchkeeper UAS project…

Commercial

Septentrio, FreeFlight Form Strategic Partnership

FreeFlight Systems, of Waco, Texas, announced a strategic partnership with Septentrio Satellite Navigation, of Leuven, Belgium, to develop new GPS/SBAS receivers for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), required navigation performance (RNP) and LPV applications.…

Commercial

Aeroflex Gears Up for IPO

Aeroflex Holding Corp., the parent company of test equipment manufacturer Aeroflex Inc., said last week it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed…

Military

B-2 Radar Modernization Completes Phase

Northrop Grumman said Tuesday it successfully completed the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase of the B-2 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) for the U.S. Air Force. SDD includes the design, development, test…

ATM Modernization

FAA Expands Air Traffic Education Program

FAA said Monday added five colleges and universities to its Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI), bringing the total number of participating schools to 36 to help help recruit candidates for terminal…

ATM Modernization

Thales Awarded Watchkeeper Contract

The U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Thales U.K. the initial three-year support contract for the Watchkeeper Unmanned Air System (UAS) program. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. Thales…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Multi Surveillance

Air traffic surveillance beyond radar will surely rely on the GPS-based position reports of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), but likely also on the transponder replies of multilateration (MLat) and its application as…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

ADS-B Ground Station Roll-Out Progresses Toward September Milestone Half of the planned radio sites for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) “essential” services have been built under Segment 1 of the FAA contract, which…