Editor's NoteSequestered Airspace Will FAA close 149 air traffic control towers? Considering the number of last-minute sequestration decisions that have occurred over the last six months, your guess is as good as mine. Sequestration took…
Embedded AvionicsPersistence On Patrol Wide Area Persistent Surveillance (WAPS) systems that image city-size fields of view and instantly search through terabytes of data are moving from combat deployments to commercial services. Vigilant Stare team members Sierra…
ATM ModernizationAireon, Nav Canada Finalize ATM Contract Satellite-based global air traffic surveillance provider Aireon finalized a long-term commercial data services contract with Canada's civil air navigation service operator Nav Canada. Aireon is a joint venture between Nav Canada and…
ATM ModernizationCongress Passes Bill to End FAA Furloughs Congress passed the Reducing Flight Delays Act, a bill that gives FAA authority to use surplus Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds and other funds to end sequestration-related furloughs of its 47,000 employees.…
ATM ModernizationRaytheon to Provide D-RAPCON Systems for U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force issued a $50.6 million contract to Raytheon to provide 19 deployable air traffic control (D-RAPCON) surveillance systems. (Raytheon's D-RAPCON. Photo, courtesy of Raytheon.) Raytheon will…
ATM ModernizationGovernment, Industry React to Furlough-Fueled Flight Delays Amid aviation industry and lawmaker protests, FAA's sequestration-related furloughs of air traffic controllers began this week, resulting in flight delays at some of the nation's busiest airports. FAA said this week's furloughs…
CommercialElbit Systems, Sharp Aviation Establish South Korea-Based Joint Venture Haifa, Israel-based defense electronics manufacturer Elbit Systems and Korean aviation services company Sharp Aviation K have established an avionics maintenance joint venture, Sharp Elbit Systems Aerospace (SESA), in Seoul, South Korea. …
Embedded AvionicsNAVAIR Upgrades E-6B Internet Protocol The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently implemented the Internet Protocol Bandwidth Expansion (IBPE) upgrade on its airborne strategic command platform, the E-6B Mercury. The upgrade was installed in March during…