Embedded Avionics

Jammer Next

With the award of technology maturation contracts to four industry teams in July, the U.S. Navy NextGen Jammer (NGJ) program within two years will advance from competing concepts to prototypes of the…

Commercial

IFE System Health

The AEEC Cabin Systems Subcommittee (CSS) has developed Supplement 1 to ARINC Specification 628: “Cabin Equipment Interface (CEI), Part 8, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Equipment Standard Availability Measurement Guidelines,” adopted by the AEEC…

Commercial

Product Focus: Test Equipment

About four months into its most important modernization program for the testing of aircraft avionics, automatic test equipment (ATE) engineers at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are excited about how…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Optical Network Interconnections French aerospace connector manufacturer Souriau and Protokraft, of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed optical network interconnections using Souriau’s ELIO optical interfaces. Protokraft introduced the Sabre Series of high-speed optoelectronic solutions…

Commercial

AV Awarded Puma UAS Contract

AeroVironment (AV), of Monrovia, Calif., received a $35.3 million contract delivery order for digital Puma All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), spares and training services. The equipment and services were procured under…

Business & GA

KSU Avionics Program Earns Accreditation

Kansas State University's avionics program has been accredited by the National Center for Aerospace and Transportation Technologies, the university announced Wednesday. The accreditation means the program, offered at K-State Salina, meets or exceeds…