Embedded Avionics

Multilateration: ATM’s Future Safety Net?

One of the rather surprising omissions of FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Implementation Plan, released in March, was that, despite its full description of the agency’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B)…

Military

Product Focus: Automatic Test Equipment

For automated test equipment (ATE) developers, addressing complexity is their specialty. It is no simple chore to keep the systems on a variety of legacy and new military aircraft bristling with latest…

Commercial

New Products

Databus Software Data Device Corp. (DDC), of Bohemia, N.Y., added data reconstruction functionality to its dataSIMS bus analyzer software (version 4.1 and later). DDC said the dataSIMS Bus Analysis and Simulation software…

Editor's Note

Calendar

September 11-15 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Conference & Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle. Visit http://apex.aero. 12-15 Autotestcon 2011, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore. Visit http://autotestcon.com. 13 Avionics for NextGen, sponsored by…

Editor's Note

People

Mike Opheim Satcom Direct, of Satellite Beach, Fla., named Mike Opheim vice president of business aviation sales. Opheim brings with him nearly 30 years of experience in business aviation, with most of…

Commercial

Sensor Payloads

There is no shortage of diversity in the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) market. There are UASs the size of Boeing 737s and handheld systems that weigh less than a pound. Most of…

Business & GA

Q&A: Honeywell Defense and Space

After a decade of fighting overseas wars, the U.S. defense industry is undergoing some downsizing. Pentagon officials have declared the need for belt-tightening as it draws down troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.…

Editor's Note

‘Sunny’ Days in Paris

The champagne corks have been popped, billion-dollar deals signed and aircraft orders have been finalized. Another Paris Air Show in the books. And after all of that, the aviation industry is celebrating…