MilitaryDEVELOPING: Marine Corps F-35 Crashes in South Carolina An F-35B crashed on Little Barnwell Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina on Friday. This is the first reported crash of an F-35. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s office released a statement noting…
CommercialFAA Re-Authorization Bill Passes House Ahead of October 1 Deadline A re-authorization bill for the FAA that will secure nearly $90 billion in funding over five years for the agency passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 398-to-23…
MilitaryWill ViSAR Revolutionize Close Air Support? Soldiers slogging it out on the ground will get a much-needed boost when Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) technology takes the field. The miniaturized extremely high-frequency band (EHF) sensor, developed by the…
MilitaryF-35 Costs Cut: Advanced Fighters For Less than $90M Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department have agreed on a new $11.5 billion contract that brings the price of an F-35A below $90 million for the first time. The new contract, which covers 141 F-35s and will go into…
ConnectivityAir France Begins Gogo 2Ku Service on A330, 777 Aviation broadband connectivity products and services provider Gogo has launched commercial service on the first two Air France aircraft outlined in its contract with the airline – an Airbus A330 and a Boeing 777. The two Air France jets…
ATM ModernizationEurope’s Aircraft Data Link Service Network is Improving In August, the number of times aircraft flying in European airspace lost connectivity with data-link ground stations dropped to the lowest number since the stations were first implemented. Data reported by the Single…
MilitaryHarris to Supply New F-35 Core Processor The Lockheed Martin F-35 will run on a Harris-built integrated core processor (ICP) beginning in 2023, the two companies revealed Thursday. The new ICP, the "brains" of the advanced fighter, promises 25…
CommercialIBM Wants AI to Close the Decision-Making Loop The way IBM sees it, artificial intelligence (AI) can help expedite the OODA loop — the decision-making cycle of observe, orient, decide and act theorized by U.S. Air Force Col. John Boyd.…
MilitaryBoeing Closes Acquisition of Millennium Space Systems Boeing completed the acquisition of Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile small-satellite solutions. Millennium Space Systems will operate under Boeing Phantom Works as a subsidiary called Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company. It…
CommercialFirst SBAS-FMS Installed on ATR 42-500 Aircraft The first ATR 42-500 type aircraft have been equipped with satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS)-capable flight management system (FMS), thanks to Universal Avionics and operator First Air. The Canadian regional airline performed the…