ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Saab Sensis Builds on ASDE-X Photo courtesy Saab Sensis Saab Sensis announced a series of contract awards and system deployments for airport surveillance and precision approach systems in recent months, following the…
CommercialSnake Pit Superior An AH-1Z Cobra with the Aviation Combat Element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit hovers above the USS Makin Island in the first shipboard deployment of the attack helicopter. Photo courtesy U.S.…
ATM ModernizationNAV Canada Extends ADS-B Coverage Air navigation service provider NAV CANADA said it has expanded its surveillance to cover a 1.3-million-square kilometre portion of airspace over the North Atlantic as the implementation of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)…
Editor's NoteVSI Awarded Night Vision Display Systems Contract Vision Systems International (VSI), a joint venture between Elbit Systems of America and Rockwell Collins, has been awarded a $19.8 million contract for the delivery and engineering support of Night Vision Cueing Display (NVCD) systems.…
Business & GAGOL Selects SITA/Flightman Class 2 EFB GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes will deploy Class 2 electronic flight bags (EFB) from SITA, and its technology partner Flightman, on its fleet of 130 Boeing 737-NGs. This five-year contract includes the provision…
ATM ModernizationObama Nominates Huerta as FAA Administrator Michael Huerta President Obama on Tuesday nominated Michael Huerta to serve a five-year term FAA administrator, a post he's held on an interim basis since December following the resignation of Randy Babbitt. Aviation groups urged…
MilitaryRockwell Collins to Supply Additional Systems for KC-390 Embraer has selected systems from Rockwell Collins for its KC-390 transport aircraft. Rockwell Collins, which is also providing its Pro Line Fusion-based avionics for the aircraft, will also supply its DF-430 Direction Finder and…
ATM ModernizationNASA's Ikhana UAS Flies with ADS-B NASA's Ikhana, a modified MQ-9 Predator B, glides in for landing at Edwards Air Force Base at the conclusion of the first checkout test flight of the ADS-B on a UAS. (Photo…