MilitaryBlakey Reacts to Vice Presidential Debate Discussion of Sequestration Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President Marion Blakey reacted to the vice presidential debate discussion of sequestration on Thursday, saying it will take bipartisanship in Congress to resolve the sequestration issue. “While it…
Business & GALockheed Martin Launches AFSS Pilot Web Portal Lockheed Martin Flight Services (LMFS) launched its Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS) Pilot Web Portal along with the new Adverse Condition Alerting Service (ACAS). The ACAS provides new alerts on new adverse…
CommercialU.S. Air Force Awards F-15 MRO Contract to Honeywell The U.S. Air Force awarded a $57.8 million contract modification to Honeywell for repair, overhaul and logistics support of F-15 secondary power assets. The contract modification was announced under the secondary power…
Business & GACobalt Selects CMC SmartDeck Avionics Suite for Co50 Aircraft Cobalt Aircraft Industries has selected the Esterline CMC Electronics SmartDeck integrated avionics suite as standard for its new Co50 five-place aircraft. CMC said the all-composite Co50’s SmartDeck system will include dual Air…
Business & GAOculus Systems Becomes U.K. Vendor for Huginn X-1 UAS Oculus Systems has become the vendor for the Huginn X-1 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The Huginn X-1, manufactured by Denmark-based Sky-Watch, is a NANO UAS designed for surveillance tasks in both civilian…
ATM ModernizationPanelists: GPS Network Vital to Future of Aviation GPS is precious resource for the aviation industry and must be protected from threats, intentional or otherwise, according to panelists on an Avionics Magazine Webinar this week. What started out as military-only network…
Embedded AvionicsElbit, Northrop Grumman Collaborate on Terrain Avoidance System Elbit Systems and Northrop Grumman are collaborating to develop a terrain following and terrain avoidance (TF/TA) system. (Terrain following C-130) The TF/TA system is a combination of the Elbit Systems TF/TA head-up…
CommercialLockheed Martin Team to Study Autonomous UAS Technology The Office of Naval Research has awarded a $13.5 million contract to an industry team led by Lockheed Martin to explore highly advanced autonomous technologies aboard an unmanned vertical take-off and landing…