Business & GAPanasonic Expands Coverage Over Asia Panasonic Avionics Corp., based in Lake Forest, Calif., commissioned and tested its new service on the Yamal 201 Russian satellite via its partner RuSat’s teleport in Moscow, Russia. The move provides essential service for…
Embedded AvionicsFACE Consortium Publishes Avionics Technical Standard The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, a group of nearly 40 avionics manufacturers, military organizations and other companies, released the FACE Technical Standard, which provides guidelines for creating a common operating…
CommercialNorthrop Grumman, Navy Demo Refueling Hardware of X-47B Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have successfully completed a series of flight tests to demonstrate technology that could help extend the operating range and flight duration of future carrier-based unmanned systems.…
MilitaryNavy Orders More F/A-18Es, F/A-18Fs Boeing was awarded a $687.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for for 14 additional Lot 36, F/A-18Es and one additional Lot 36, F/A-18F contained in the F/A-18 multi-year III production…
Embedded AvionicsLockheed Martin to Use LynxOS RTOS for U.K. AWACS Lockheed Martin will use the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from LynuxWorks for use on the U.K. Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. The U.K.’s AWACS aircraft were designed…
CommercialInsitu Demonstrates STUAS to Marines Marines witnessed the first flight of its newest small unmanned aircraft on Jan. 22 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., the Naval Air Systems Command said…
ATM ModernizationAir Creebec Selects Universal's WAAS, TAWS Products Canada’s Air Creebec will equip its Q-Series (Dash 8) fleet with Wide Area Augmentation System/Satellite-Based Augmentation System Flight Management Systems (WAAS/SBAS-FMS) and Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems (TAWS) from Universal Avionics, based…
CommercialAAI UAS, ViaSat Enter UAS Communications Alliance AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and ViaSat entered into a strategic alliance to align AAI’s advanced unmanned aircraft and command and control technologies with ViaSat integrated airborne and terrestrial satellite communications, as…