Commercial

Air China Introduces Thales IFE in Fleet

Air China introduced into revenue service the first of its 15 Boeing 777s equipped with the Thales TopSeries in-flight entertainment systems onboard, Thales announced Friday. The aircraft has a total of 311…

Commercial

Boeing Demonstrates UAS Communications

Boeing on Tuesday said it demonstrated its newest narrowband communications relay aboard two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) -- an Insitu ScanEagle and a portable AeroVironment Puma All Environment (AE). According to Boeing,…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins on MAV6 Airship Project

The U.S. Air Force awarded the $86.2 million Blue Devil Block II development contract to MAV6, of Alexandria, Va., a defense technology company, who chose Rockwell Collins to equip the airship with…

ATM Modernization

ARINC Awarded Eurocontrol Contract

ARINC was awarded the contract to provide Eurocontrol with a test system to validate the functioning of VDL Mode 2 (VDL2) avionics in a multi-frequency environment. ARINC’s validation system will be installed…

Commercial

Lockheed Martin Develops Rugged Stalker UAS

Lockheed Martin developed a ruggedized version of its Stalker Unmanned Air System (UAS), called the Stalker eXtreme Endurance (XE) UAS. The company said the Stalker XE system has a flight endurance time…

Commercial

AAI UAS, AME Unmanned Systems Form Alliance

AME Unmanned Systems, a ChandlerMay company, and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, have entered into a strategic alliance agreement regarding unmanned systems development, the companies announced…

Commercial

AV Demonstrates Hummingbird Nano UAV

Photo courtesy DARPA AeroVironment (AV), based in Monrovia, Calif., announced a series of contracts and displayed its research efforts at the annual Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference and exhibition this week…

Commercial

Raytheon Enhances DCGS

Raytheon Company, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has upgraded the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) nodes for the Kansas and Indiana Air National Guard with the latest net-centric, cost-efficient and service-interoperable capabilities, the…

ATM Modernization

Saab Completes Sensis Acquisition

Saab has completed its $155 million acquisition of Sensis, of Syracuse, N.Y., the company announced Monday. The new company, Saab Sensis Corp., will leverage "Sensis’ and Saab’s advanced Air Traffic Management and…