ATM Modernization

Exelis Completes ADS-B Nationwide Installations

[Avionics Today April 14, 2014] The FAA has completed the nationwide implementation of the ground-based infrastructure for its Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) radio network under the NextGen program.    ADS-B is one of…

Commercial

Lufthansa Technik Expands to Puerto Rico

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Germany's Lufthansa Technik has signed an agreement to build a new aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.  Lufthansa…

Commercial

Wind River Powers F-35 Communications in Flight Test

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Avionics Magazine recently caught up with Wind River to discuss how its VxWorks Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Platform provided a separation kernel-based security foundation for a…

Commercial

Navy's X-47B Completes First Night Flight

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) completed its first night flight over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Navy completed…

Commercial

Telefonix to Develop Gogo Onboard Server

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Telefonix has a new agreement to develop an onboard server, the ACPU-2, for Gogo's in-flight connectivity service.  ACPU-2 features ARINC 429, expanded Gigabit Ethernet ports supported by a…

Commercial

LynxOS RTOS Ready for Market Entry 

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Embedded safety and software security provider LynuxWorks announced the "upcoming availability" of its LynxOS-178.2.2.3, an FAA Level A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).  LynxOS-178 is the first Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)…

Business & GA

Making Autopilot Systems Safer

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Would you believe that just 30 lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447 from crashing into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009? Carlos Varela, an…