Military

ITT Exelis to Provide Jamming Pods for Pakistani F-16s

ITT Exelis has finalized a $54 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to provide the Pakistan Air Force with digital radio frequency memory-based jamming pods. Exelis Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System…

Business & GA

DHS Tests Wide Area Airborne Surveillance System

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it concluded a test of a wide area airborne surveillance system (WAASS), suspending WAASS sensors from an unmanned, 75-foot helium balloon floating 2,000 feet above…

Commercial

Sirio Panel Selects SYSGO's AFDX System

Germany's SYSGO will supply its DO-178B certified software-based Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) system for Sirio Panel for an actual avionics application running on Freescale’s QorIQ dual-core P2020 architecture, the companies said Friday.…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins, AVIC Subsidiary Form JV in China

Rockwell Collins and China Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute (LETRI), a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), are establishing a joint venture company -- AVIC Leihua Rockwell Collins Avionics…

Commercial

Panasonic Awarded A380 Connectivity Line-Fit Agreement

Panasonic Avionics will line-fit its in-flight communications and connectivity system, Global Communications Suite, on Airbus A380s. "Broadband connectivity, especially on long-haul flights, is increasingly important to our customers, and we are very…

ATM Modernization

NAV Canada Extends ADS-B Coverage

Air navigation service provider NAV CANADA said it has expanded its surveillance to cover a 1.3-million-square kilometre portion of airspace over the North Atlantic as the implementation of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)…

Editor's Note

VSI Awarded Night Vision Display Systems Contract

Vision Systems International (VSI), a joint venture between Elbit Systems of America and Rockwell Collins, has been awarded a $19.8 million contract for the delivery and engineering support of Night Vision Cueing Display (NVCD) systems.…

Business & GA

GOL Selects SITA/Flightman Class 2 EFB 

GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes will deploy Class 2 electronic flight bags (EFB) from SITA, and its technology partner Flightman, on its fleet of 130 Boeing 737-NGs. This five-year contract includes the provision…