CommercialCrane CEO to Retire Crane CEO Eric C. Fast will retire in 2014, the company said Monday. Fast will be replaced by Max H. Mitchell, current president and chief operating officer of the company. Fast…
CommercialShadin Receives TSO Certification for Avionics Interface Shadin Avionics received FAA technical standard order (TSO) certification for its avionics interface system (AIS-460) of 1553-to-ARINC-429 data conversion units. The AIS-460 has been modified to integrate the APX-119 transponder on select…
CommercialRockwell Collins CEO Clay Jones to Retire Rockwell Collins Chairman and CEO Clay Jones will retire July 31, the company said in a statement Friday. Jones is expected to be succeeded by current Rockwell Collins President Kelly Ortberg. …
CommercialRockwell Collins to Provide Support for F-22 Displays The U.S. Air Force issued a four-year $14.3 million contract to Rockwell Collins to provide sustainment services for the cockpit displays on its fleet of F-22 fighter aircraft. (Photo, courtesy of Rockwell…
CommercialSen. McCaskill Wants Expanded Use of In-flight PEDs by End of Year During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on aviation safety on Tuesday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) requested a decision from FAA by the end of the year on expanding the in-flight use of…
ATM ModernizationSenate Hearing Examines Sequestered FAA, Boeing 787 Progress FAA Administrator Michael Huerta on Tuesday gave lawmakers an update on how the agency is handling budget cuts from sequestration and its progress with the ongoing review of Boeing's attempt to return…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman Completes Demonstrations of SABR for F-16s Northrop Grumman recently completed successful demonstrations of its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) system for the U.S. Air Force's F-16 upgrade program. SABR is capable of generating synthetic aperture radar (SAR) maps,…
CommercialU.S. Army, UAH to Collaborate on Development of Next Generation UAS The U.S. Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Management Office (PM UAS) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to promote the development of the…