CommercialNavy Awards Honeywell $181 Million for Global Aircraft Fleet Maintenance NAVSUP Weapons Systems Support (WSS) awarded Honeywell a follow-on five-year $181 million contract to provide logistics support for auxiliary power units (APUs) for F/A-18 A-G, P-3, C-2, as well as F/A-18 main…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Recalculating What started out as military-only network has exploded so that everyone, everywhere is connected via GPS. You can get GPS in your car, on your phone, on the boat, and, yes, even…
CommercialLetters UAS in the NAS I had occasion to read Emily Feliz’s Editor’s Note in the September issue. I have no quarrel with what she says; it is just that she did not…
Business & GAIndustry Scan Photo courtesy Lockheed Martin Lockheed, Air Force Fix C-5M ‘Deficiencies’ The U.S. Air Force’s C-5M program has fixed some of the problems that arose during two major modernization initiatives for the…
CommercialManaging Obsolescence A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in 2009. The U.S. Air Force’s aging airplanes need careful tending — especially their airframes and engines. But the avionics systems…
ATM ModernizationAvionics for NextGen Aviation industry leaders gathered in Atlantic City, N.J., in September for the Second Annual Avionics for NextGen conference, urging cooperation among industry stakeholders and action from regulatory bodies to move the massive…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Wire & Cable Emteq’s HD video cable For wire and cable companies, the aviation industry, even in a time of economic austerity, is a key source of opportunities. Smaller, lighter and more capable cables and…
Business & GASystem Design: PED Situation on Aircraft This topic has probably ignited more discussion among the air traveling public than lost luggage or the in-flight meal service. In our endlessly connected age, people demand to be spliced into the…