Embedded AvionicsRockwell Collins to Provide Avionics for New Piaggio MPA Italian aircraft manufacturer Piaggio Aero selected Rockwell Collins to develop an integrated avionics system for its new multirole patrol aircraft (MPA). (Piaggio Aero MPA, courtesy Rockwell Collins) Piaggio is developing its new…
ATM ModernizationSITA to Deploy CPDLC Infrastructure in Portugal Air navigation service provider NAV Portugal has partnered with air transport communications provider SITA to implement the data link infrastructure required to comply with the EU Regulations for the Single European Sky,…
ATM ModernizationFAA Certifies ITT's V-MAT System FAA has certified the ITT Exelis vehicle movement area transmitter (V-MAT) device as fully compliant with its standards. V-MAT is a device that permits ground vehicles operating on the airport surface to…
CommercialFAA Seeks Proposals for Unmanned Aircraft Testing Sites FAA moved a step closer to its 2015 goal of integrating civilian and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) on Thursday by asking for proposals to develop…
Embedded AvionicsRaytheon Awarded Army HMD Contract Raytheon Technical Services, together with teammate Thales Visionix Inc. (TVI), has won a $3.5 million award for the engineering and manufacturing development of Common Helmet Mounted Display (CHMD) systems for the U.S.…
ATM ModernizationAustralia Selects Honeywell's SmartPath System Honeywell’s SmartPath has been selected by Airservices Australia as the country’s first Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) to improve operational efficiency and decrease air traffic noise at Sydney Airport. Designed to overcome the…
ATM ModernizationAirbus ProSky, CAAS to Research ATM in Singapore Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Airbus ProSky signed a Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) to jointly develop a Concept of Operations for Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) based on Collaborative Decision…
CommercialRaytheon, GA-ASI to Develop Unmanned EW Raytheon and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) are working together to develop a highly autonomous, unmanned electronic warfare capability based on equipping GA-ASI's Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) with…