CommercialIntegrated, Expeditionary and Payload-Friendly From catapult launch to wing-snagging recovery, the Boeing Insitu RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) will downlink imagery and data to U.S. Marine Corps ground forces and Navy ships. The Navy…
ATM ModernizationIntegrating UAS in the NAS Congress has ordered FAA to enable civil unmanned aircraft to routinely access U.S. airspace by 2015. FAA needs to lay down the rules of the road. But more is required to get…
Editor's NoteCarlisle Interconnect Technologies When performance matters, Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (CarlisleIT) has been one of the world’s leading providers of high quality interconnect products for over seventy years. With the acquisition of Thermax and Raydex in…
CommercialViaSat Looks to Increase In-Flight Bandwidth With New FCC License ViaSat on Tuesday announced it has received blanket license radio station authorization for Ka-band aeronautical earth stations, which provides regulatory approval for airborne Ka-band service across the United States. (Photo:…
ATM ModernizationSaab Sensis to Perform NextGen Research for NASA Saab Sensis, a subsidiary of Saab of Sweden, has been awarded a NASA contract to perform research on airborne and ground systems for flight safety and air traffic management. Contract length…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman Delivers 100th F-35 Avionics System Northrop Grumman on Monday announced the delivery of its 100th avionics system for Lockheed Martin's fifth generation F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. (A Northrop Grumman test engineer conducts manufacturing testing…
CommercialFAA Issues First Commercial UAS Type Certificates FAA issued the first restricted type certificates to permit commercial operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) recently, authorizing Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA to begin flying commercial missions within the National…
CommercialRockwell Collins, Jeppesen Streamline Flight Data Uploads Rockwell Collins on Monday announced a new agreement at the EAA AirVenture show to begin automatically transferring Jeppesen electronic flight charts to flight decks using its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM). …