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). …
Business & GAGulfstream's EVS II, HUD II Approved for G280 Gulfstream's Enhanced Vision System (EVS) II and Head-Up Display (HUD) II for the G280 has been certified by FAA, the airframe manufacturer said Thursday. The FAA certification means the enhanced flight vision…
Business & GANorthrop Grumman to Supply AHRS for Italian Agusta-Bell 412 Northrop Grumman has been selected by AgustaWestland to provide the Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) for the Agusta-Bell 412 helicopter fleet operated by Italy's law enforcement agency, the Guardia di Finanza, under…