ATM Modernization

NATO Ugrades AWACS Aircraft Avionics to Meet Mandates

NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. Photo: Rockwell Collins [Avionics Today 03-25-2015] Boeing has completed the first test flight of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Airborne Warning and Control…

Commercial

DARPA Awards Contracts for Tern Naval UAS Project

Tern UAS phase 2 artist rendering. Photo: DARPA [Avionics Today 03-25-2015] DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 2 of Tern, a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of…

Business & GA

CAE Contracts $55 Million in FFS Around the World

[Avionics Today 03-25-2015] CAE has sold five Full-Flight Simulators (FFS) and simulator update services to customers in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The contracts, which one Bombardier Q400 simulator to Westjet…

ATM Modernization

Space-Based ADS-B Q&A With Skip Nelson

[Avionics Today 03-24-2015] In September 2014 ADS-B Technologies completed a 7,000 nautical mile (nm) public flight demonstration of its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Link Augmentation System (ALAS). The system has been…

Commercial

Germanwings Flight Crashes in French Alps

A Germanwings A320. Photo: Wikipedia [Avionics Today 03-24-2015] French officials believe that all 144 passengers and 6 crew on board a Germanwings flight en route to Dusseldorf, Germany have perished in a…

Embedded Avionics

IS&S Completes NextGen C-130 FMS Flight Testing

[Avionics Today 03-24-2015] Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) completed the flight testing and customer delivery of its NextGen Flight Management System (FMS) on the Lockheed Martin C-130 military transport aircraft. The flight…

ATM Modernization

ADS-B Equipage Reaches 10,000

[Avionics Today 03-24-2015] The FAA made an announcement during last week's Equip 2020 working group meeting that rule-compliant DO-260B Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipment has been installed onboard 10,000 U.S.-registered aircraft. According…

Business & GA

Silver Air to Equip With Gogo Biz

[Avionics Today 03-24-2015] Santa Barbara, Calif.-based charter operator Silver Air is outfitting its entire fleet of business jets with Gogo Biz mobile broadband Internet. The Silver Air fleet currently features Wi-Fi on…

Commercial

US Army to Use Ensco Avionics in GBSAA

[Avionics Today 03-24-2015] The U.S. Army will use the Ensco Avionics IGL and IData tool suite to develop its Ground Based Sense and Avoid Alert Display (GBSAA) subsystem. According to Ensco, the…