Business & GAGPS Backup: Is eLoran the Answer? Recent headlines about possible threats to the GPS network is bringing new life to the discussion about the vulnerability and potential backups to the ubiquitous system. Despite the defeat of the LightSquared…
CommercialAAI Awarded $600 Million MEUAS Contract AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems won the competitive Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS) II award from the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The three-year award, valued at just under $600 million, includes support…
Business & GAL-3 to Acquire Thales Training & Simulation Business L-3 Communications will pay $132 million to acquire the assets of Thales Training & Simulation's civil aircraft simulation and training business, based in Crawley, U.K. The acquisition, subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to…
MilitaryBoeing to Upgrade B-1 Lancer Nav System Boeing has received a $55.3 million production contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the B-1 Lancer navigation system, replacing the original navigation hardware with a new ring laser gyro system.…
Business & GALockheed Martin Awarded $1 Billion Navy Helicopter Cockpit Upgrade The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.05 billion, five-year contract to provide more than 200 digital cockpits and integrated mission systems and sensors for the Navy MH-60R “Romeo” and MH-60S “Sierra”…
MilitaryRockwell Collins Renews Avionics Replacement Contract with Army's SOAR Rockwell Collins renewed a contract with the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) to provide helicopter cockpit replacement parts for its Common Avionics Architecture System. “The overall goal of this program…
Business & GAWest Star Awarded Wi-Fi STC West Star Aviation, of East Alton, Ill., received FAA supplemental type certificate for enabling Wi-Fi on Pro Line 4 and Pro Line 21 equipped Falcon 2000 and 2000EX. The project was completed…
Business & GACobham Increases Interest in Thrane & Thrane Cobham has purchased more than 1 million shares in Thrane & Thrane, bringing its interest up to more than 25 percent of the company, Cobham said Friday. On March 12, Cobham said…