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COMMERCIAL FAA Returns to Work Thousands of FAA employees and contractors returned to work Aug. 8 following a two-week partial agency shutdown after the expiration of the agency’s latest funding measure. Congress…

Business & GA

Airlines Testing iPads as EFBs

Airlines are taking their paperless cockpits a step further, deploying Apple iPads to operate as electronic flight bags (EFB) to display operating manuals, nav charts, flight checklists and more. A number of…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Signs Inmarsat Contract

Rockwell Collins signed an agreement with Inmarsat to develop, produce and distribute user terminals and provide service for future Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) aeronautical services to the aviation industry. The agreement will bring…

Commercial

AV Adds Shrike to Family of Small UASs

AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., introduced man-portable Shrike VTOL unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The company said the UAS was developed under a DARPA contract, awarded in 2008, to develop a portable, stealthy, persistent perch…

Business & GA

Global Aviation Technologies to Provide 400XT Wiring

Global Aviation Technologies, of Wichita, Kan., was selected by Nextant Aerospace to provide wire harnesses for the Nextant 400XT aircraft upgrade program. The company said it is responsible for complete Nose-to-Tail wire…

Embedded Avionics

L-3 to Provide Enhanced Displays for Apache Helicopter

L-3 Communications has received a firm-fixed price contract from Lockheed Martin to develop a new 5-x-5-inch color Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD) assembly for the U.S. Army's AH-64D Apache helicopter, the…

ATM Modernization

Metron Aviation Wins NASA NextGen Contract

Metron Aviation has been awarded a NASA contract to perform advanced research and development to further NextGen airspace management concepts, the company announced Wednesday. The company will support NASA's NextGen Concepts and…

Commercial

No Compromises on LightSquared Plan

Any confusion regarding the Federal Communications Commission's stance on GPS interference was made clear on August 9, when FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told reporters that the agency would under no circumstances allow…