Commercial

OnAir Terminates Agreement with Ryanair

OnAir, a joint venture of Airbus and SITA, on Monday announced the termination of its agreement with Irish carrier Ryanair.   After operating the OnAir service on 50 of its aircraft for about a…

Military

Elbit Systems Signs Warfare Contract

Elbit Systems subsidiary Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd. on Wednesday announced a $147 million contract with an undisclosed customer in Asia for airborne and ground electronic warfare (EW) systems. The systems will be…

Military

Presagis Forms Embedded Partnership

Presagis, based in Montreal, announced a partnership with S3 Graphics, Fremont, Calif.-based provider of graphics visualization technologies, to deliver driver support for the S3 Graphics 2300E Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to the embedded market. The…

Military

LynuxWorks Tests Separation Kernel

LynuxWorks, based in San Jose, Calif., said Monday its LynxSecure separation kernel went through a series of performance tests at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), to help assess the use of separation kernels for…

ATM Modernization

Northrop Grumman Tests Flight Data System

Northrop Grumman said Tuesday it installed a demonstration Real-Time Electronic Flight Data System (REFS) for the U.S. Air Force that will create a more efficient flight information system for air traffic controllers. REFS…

Business & GA

StandardAero to Reopen Engine Shop

StandardAero said Monday it will reopen the 225,000-square-foot engine shop at its Springfield, Ill., service center (SPI) in the third quarter of 2010. The shop will be capable of providing major periodic…

Military

Boeing Receives JHMCS Contract

Boeing said Thursday it received a $39.6 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense in December to provide 85 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS). Boeing said it will deliver JHMCS…

Commercial

Pickering, Geotest-Marvin Form Alliance

Geotest-Marvin Test Systems, of Irvine, Calif., and U.K.-based Pickering Interfaces have formed a strategic alliance aimed at providing customers a broader range of test equipment choices. An initial element of this program…