Business & GABeating Brownout Blinding sand and dust clouds churned up by helicopter rotors still cost the U.S. armed services lives and aircraft in ongoing conflicts. Since 2002, the Army alone has lost or damaged 27…
MilitaryAeroVironment CFO Resigns AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., announced Wednesday the resignation of its chief financial officer, Stephen C. Wright, to pursue other business opportunities. Jikun Kim has been appointed interim chief financial officer. Kim…
ATM ModernizationADS-B Used For In-Trail Procedures Avionics manufacturers are participating in oceanic in-trail procedures (ITP) trials in the United States and Europe using automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) aircraft position reporting. In presentations at the AEEC General Session in…
ATM ModernizationMetron Aviation Achieves ISO Certification Metron Aviation, based in Dulles, Va., achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 certification for providing advanced research, concept engineering, air traffic management, software development, environmental analysis and commercial product solutions to…
ATM ModernizationEditor'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 ModernizationIndustry 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…
ATM ModernizationPeople Larry Alexandre Sagem Avionics, Grand Prairie, Texas, appointed Larry Alexandre CEO. He succeeds Jean Baudin, who moved to a corporate position within Sagem. Alexandre has held a variety of leadership positions in…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Lighting With the first generation of light-emitting diode (LED) technology proving its value on the flight deck and in the cabin, manufacturers of aircraft lighting systems are developing second-generation systems that throw off…