Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Signs Inmarsat Contract

Rockwell Collins signed an agreement with Inmarsat to develop, produce and distribute user terminals and provide service for future Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) aeronautical services to the aviation industry. The agreement will bring…

Commercial

AV Adds Shrike to Family of Small UASs

AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., introduced man-portable Shrike VTOL unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The company said the UAS was developed under a DARPA contract, awarded in 2008, to develop a portable, stealthy, persistent perch…

Business & GA

Global Aviation Technologies to Provide 400XT Wiring

Global Aviation Technologies, of Wichita, Kan., was selected by Nextant Aerospace to provide wire harnesses for the Nextant 400XT aircraft upgrade program. The company said it is responsible for complete Nose-to-Tail wire…

Embedded Avionics

L-3 to Provide Enhanced Displays for Apache Helicopter

L-3 Communications has received a firm-fixed price contract from Lockheed Martin to develop a new 5-x-5-inch color Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD) assembly for the U.S. Army's AH-64D Apache helicopter, the…

ATM Modernization

Metron Aviation Wins NASA NextGen Contract

Metron Aviation has been awarded a NASA contract to perform advanced research and development to further NextGen airspace management concepts, the company announced Wednesday. The company will support NASA's NextGen Concepts and…

Commercial

No Compromises on LightSquared Plan

Any confusion regarding the Federal Communications Commission's stance on GPS interference was made clear on August 9, when FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told reporters that the agency would under no circumstances allow…

Commercial

FAA Approves Pro Star Aviation Standalone Heading Display

Pro Star Aviation has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for an amendment to Supplemental Type Certification (STC) SR00274BO, enabling the L-3 GH-3100 ESIS to independently display magnetic heading without…

Embedded Avionics

Boeing B-52 CONECT Upgrade Successful

Boeing successfully completed an evaluation flight of the B-52 Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) interphone system earlier this month, according to the manufacturer. The six-hour flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,…

Business & GA

ViaSat High-Speed Internet Offered as Factory Option

ViaSat Inc. has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace to provide airborne communications terminal equipment as part of a new high-speed Internet option on Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft. The Bombardier option…

Commercial

Japan Airlines to Deploy Thales IFE System

Japan Airlines has taken delivery of the first of five Boeing 767-300ER Domestic aircraft with the Thales TopSeries In-Flight Entertainment System onboard, the companies announced Friday. The aircraft has a total of…