Commercial

Esterline Sells Muirhead Subsidiary

Esterline Corp., of Bellevue, Wash., announced Monday it is selling its U.K.-based Muirhead Aerospace subsidiary to AMETEK, Paoli, Pa. Esterline said it anticipates an after-tax gain on the sale of about $16…

ATM Modernization

Sensis to Deploy Multilateration in Montreal

Nav Canada announced plans to deploy a multilateration system for surface surveillance from Sensis, Syracuse, N.Y., Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The contract also calls for the airport to use Sensis…

Military

AeroVironment Awarded Army UAV Contract

AeroVironment, Monrovia, Calif., was awarded $5.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to procure research, development, test & evaluation digital data link effort for the Raven RQ-11B unmanned aircraft System. Work will be…

Commercial

FAA Signs Contract with Honeywell, ACSS

FAA signed a $9 million agreement with Honeywell and Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) to accelerate testing and installation of Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) technology. Acting FAA Administrator said the contracts…

Commercial

Embedded Overall

Despite driving key technologies in systems ranging from pacemakers to fighter aircraft, embedded software has not received nearly the recognition of high-profile enterprise applications. The embedded market “is not as big as…

Military

L-3 Communications Wins Navy Contract

L-3 Communications was awarded a $9.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to exercise an option for training support and up to 2,000 flight instructor hours on a Boeing 737 next-generation aircraft…

Business & GA

TerraMetrics to Develop Landing System

TerraMetrics, Inc., of Littleton, Colo., was awarded a two-year, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to research and develop a system that will help make…

Military

BAE Selected for EW Suite on F-15

BAE Systems was selected by Boeing to provide the Digital Electronic Warfare Suite (DEWS) for future international versions of the F-15. Boeing said it will offer the BAE Systems DEWS as an option for any…