Commercial

DoD Proposes Terminating Global Hawk Block 30s

The Department of Defense (DoD) proposed a series of budget cuts last week, including the slower procurement of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and the cancellation of the Global Hawk Block…

Military

Northrop Grumman, BAE Selected for CIRCM Contracts

BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman have been selected to develop Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) systems for the Army, Navy and Marine rotary-wing aircraft. Under terms of the $38 million, 21-month technology demonstration contract, BAE…

ATM Modernization

ATC Global Announces 2012 Seminars, Workshops

Workshops and conference sessions at this year's ATC Global Exhibition and Conference will bring together leaders in the international air traffic management community, discussing the regulatory and technological issues facing the future…

ATM Modernization

Flat Is The New Growth

President Obama and military leaders in Washington in early January outlined a new, streamlined military strategy, following the end of the war in Iraq, which sounded very much like an earnings call…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

MILITARY Curtiss-Wright Division Curtiss-Wright Controls announced the formation of a Defense Solutions business group, combining its Embedded Computing and Electronics Systems businesses to better address the industry’s need for more cost-efficient commercial-off-the-shelf…

Business & GA

Eastern Star

In December 2010, Gulfstream Aerospace announced the opening of a new regional sales office. Nothing unusual about that, but unlike most such announcements, this time there was a twist: Gulfstream’s new office…

Embedded Avionics

Countering MANPADS

Undeniably one of the most present and most concealed threats on the battlefield today remains the shoulder-launched, heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, or Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), a lightweight and proliferating weapon…

Business & GA

ERAM Troubles

Software problems related to FAA’s $2.1 billion En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) project are threatening to delay the agency’s multi-billion-dollar Next Generation Transportation System (NextGen) initiative. In its simplest form, ERAM will…