Business & GA

Avionics Magazine Names Woman of the Year

Avionics Magazine named Nan Mattai, senior vice president, Engineering and Technology, Rockwell Collins, as its Woman of the Year. Mattai will be recognized for her contributions to the aviation marketplace during the…

Business & GA

FAA Awards Raytheon Contract Extension for WAAS

The FAA has awarded Raytheon Company a two-year contract extension to continue to provide services for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The safety system provides satellite-based navigation in the United States,…

Military

Kratos Receives $1.3 Million Production Award

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a contract by a major U.S. prime contractor for the production of integrated microwave assemblies to be used in the U.S. Navy's P-8A aircraft.…

Commercial

U.S. Forces to Deploy More Puma UAS Systems in Afghanistan

AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., received a firm fixed-price order valued at $20.4 million from the U.S. Army for RQ-20A Puma AE small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions…

Embedded Avionics

Mercury Computer Awarded Radar Software Contract

Mercury Computer Systems, of Chelmsford, Mass., received a five-year, $30 million contract from an unnamed defense prime contractor to provide digital signal processing modules and software to facilitate a technology refresh for…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Expects Slower Growth in 2012

Rockwell Collins said Thursday it expects to see slower growth for the rest of the year, as the company looks to balance a decrease in government avionics systems with an increase in…

Commercial

FAA Selects Rockwell Collins HGS for 737 Simulator

FAA selected Rockwell Collins' Head-up Guidance Systems (HGS) with synthetic and enhanced vision to support its NextGen implementation and applied research efforts. The technology, which is being installed on the Boeing 737…