Commercial

Northrop Grumman to Provide UAS Training for Army

The Department of Defense awarded a $36.5 million contract to Northrop Grumman to provide training for U.S. Army soldiers in the operating of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.…

Military

Boeing Opens KC-46 Integration Lab

Boeing opened an integration laboratory to support testing and integration of commercial avionics and software into its KC-46A next-generation aerial refueling tanker. The lab, known as the KC-46 Tanker System Integration Laboratory…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: Recalculating

What started out as military-only network has exploded so that everyone, everywhere is connected via GPS. You can get GPS in your car, on your phone, on the boat, and, yes, even…

Commercial

Letters

UAS in the NAS I had occasion to read Emily Feliz’s Editor’s Note in the September issue. I have no quarrel with what she says; it is just that she did not…

Business & GA

Industry Scan

   Photo courtesy Lockheed Martin Lockheed, Air Force Fix C-5M ‘Deficiencies’ The U.S. Air Force’s C-5M program has fixed some of the problems that arose during two major modernization initiatives for the…

Commercial

Managing Obsolescence

A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in 2009. The U.S. Air Force’s aging airplanes need careful tending — especially their airframes and engines. But the avionics systems…

ATM Modernization

Avionics for NextGen

Aviation industry leaders gathered in Atlantic City, N.J., in September for the Second Annual Avionics for NextGen conference, urging cooperation among industry stakeholders and action from regulatory bodies to move the massive…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Wire & Cable

Emteq’s HD video cable For wire and cable companies, the aviation industry, even in a time of economic austerity, is a key source of opportunities. Smaller, lighter and more capable cables and…