CommercialPODCAST: Valour’s Daniel Welch Talks Global Airline IFEC Equipage Rates On a regional basis, airlines with hubs in North America have the highest rate of in-service airplanes featuring in-flight Internet in the world, according to the latest available data from Valour Consultancy’s…
MilitaryPentagon and Military Service Budget Requests for AI May See Avionics Applications The Pentagon has requested $800 million for research and development for artificial intelligence (AI), including the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and Project Maven, in the DoD fiscal 2021 budget released this…
Air TaxiAir Taxis in Asia: Bell, Airbus Form Partnerships on Urban Air Mobility Bell and Airbus have each signed agreements with local partners in Asia to bring urban air mobility to life, with Bell focused on Japan and Airbus continuing past cooperation with Singapore's civil…
Air TaxiCollins Aerospace Targets 2022 for Next Generation Flight Control Computer A flight control computer currently under development at Collins Aerospace will have 20 times the processing power of the avionics maker’s current generation and will eventually enable autonomous flight, Darryl Woods, general…
Air TaxiNASA Aeronautics Budget Sees 4.5 Percent Boost, Funding Future Aviation Research NASA might see a 12 percent increase in its budget per the White House’s request for fiscal year 2021, mostly for a push to return humans to the moon by 2024 —…
CommercialSingapore Airlines SVP of Engineering Talks Avionics, Technology Fleet Investment Singapore Airlines has completed retrofitting its fleet with capabilities necessary to comply with existing Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) tracking requirements and is working on upgrades that will bring its…
MilitaryBoeing Super Hornets Receiving Block III Avionics Upgrades Dozens of Boeing F/18 E/F Super Hornets are to receive avionics upgrades under the Block III program to improve information exchange speeds and allow the sharing of streaming video and other data.…
RegulationFAA Exploring How Manned Aviation Can Benefit from Drone Remote ID The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning to ask industry how manned aviation can interact with remote identification signals emitted by drones as part of its roadmap to integrating unmanned aircraft into…
ATM ModernizationRaytheon Sees MARS, STARS as Enablers to App-based Future for U.S. Air Traffic Raytheon seeks to transition the technology used by air traffic controllers to track aircraft in U.S. terminal airspace to a more software-based system that can be continuously upgraded, using application updates instead…
Business & GAViasat CEO Predicts Strong Aeronautical Broadband Revenue Growth While Viasat has run into earnings headwinds because of the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX airliner, Viasat's CEO on Feb. 6 predicted strong revenue growth ahead for broadband. "In the near…