Commercial

Raytheon, Metron, AirDat in Weather Partnership

Raytheon has teamed with AirDat LLC, of Lakewood, Colo., and Metron Aviation, of Dulles, Va., to provide a weather system for FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) weather programs. The companies said the…

Business & GA

Navy Tests Bio-Fuel-Powered AV-8B Harrier

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in China Lake, Calif., performed the first bio-fuel flight test in AV-8B Harrier #88 last week in the upper Mojave Desert, the Navy said Friday. After preliminary…

Business & GA

VivaAerobus Selects Flight Focus EFB

Flight Focus, based in Singapore, will install its Class 3 electronic flight bag, the Flight Focus PLATFORM, onto the fleet of Mexican airline VivaAerobus, the companies announced Wednesday. Flight Focus said the EFB…

Military

Lockheed Martin Awarded Navy Contract

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $16.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy for six spare AN/AAQ-30 target sight systems (TSS) for the AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopter, the Navy announced Tuesday. The TSS…

Military

BAE Awarded Countermeasures Work

BAE Systems received its first Full Rate Production contract, worth $36.7 million, for its ALE-55 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures subsystem from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the company announced Wednesday. "This…

Commercial

Army Places Raven UAS Order

AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., received a $6.9 million order from the U.S. Air Force under an existing contract with the U.S. Army for new digital Raven small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and…

ATM Modernization

Huerta: Globalization Key to NextGen, SESAR

Global industry partners must work together to achieve air traffic modernization and harmonization, according to FAA Deputy Administration Michael Huerta. Speaking Friday at the ICAO Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS) in Montreal, Huerta said…

Business & GA

V-22 Software Upgrade Improves Performance

Photo courtesy Naval Air Systems Command A small software tweak is improving the operational performance of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, according to tests performed by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). NAVAIR said…