Military

BAE to Provide Cockpit Controls for KC-390

BAE Systems was selected by aircraft manufacturer Embraer and the Brazilian Air Force to provide active side sticks as part of the overall cockpit controls for the KC-390 military transport aircraft. In…

Military

ITT Exelis to Provide Jamming Pods for Pakistani F-16s

ITT Exelis has finalized a $54 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to provide the Pakistan Air Force with digital radio frequency memory-based jamming pods. Exelis Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System…

Commercial

Sirio Panel Selects SYSGO's AFDX System

Germany's SYSGO will supply its DO-178B certified software-based Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) system for Sirio Panel for an actual avionics application running on Freescale’s QorIQ dual-core P2020 architecture, the companies said Friday.…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins, AVIC Subsidiary Form JV in China

Rockwell Collins and China Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute (LETRI), a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), are establishing a joint venture company -- AVIC Leihua Rockwell Collins Avionics…

Commercial

Panasonic Awarded A380 Connectivity Line-Fit Agreement

Panasonic Avionics will line-fit its in-flight communications and connectivity system, Global Communications Suite, on Airbus A380s. "Broadband connectivity, especially on long-haul flights, is increasingly important to our customers, and we are very…

Business & GA

DHS Tests Wide Area Airborne Surveillance System

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it concluded a test of a wide area airborne surveillance system (WAASS), suspending WAASS sensors from an unmanned, 75-foot helium balloon floating 2,000 feet above…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Drones in Airspace

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone? FAA moved closer to allowing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly and ominously called drones in mainstream media, into U.S. airspace. In March, the…