Embedded Avionics

FACE 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…

Commercial

Northrop 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.…

Military

Navy 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 Avionics

Lockheed 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…

Commercial

Insitu 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 Modernization

Air 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…

Commercial

AAI 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…

Commercial

Turkish Airlines Selects Panasonic IFE System

Turkish Airlines has added high-speed Wi-Fi broadband Internet access to its existing live, in-flight television service on Trans-Atlantic flights using IFE platform, PLANET, from Panasonic Avionics, based in Lake Forest, Calif. Passengers are now…