Commercial

AV Demonstrates Hummingbird Nano UAV

Photo courtesy DARPA AeroVironment (AV), based in Monrovia, Calif., announced a series of contracts and displayed its research efforts at the annual Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference and exhibition this week…

Commercial

Raytheon Enhances DCGS

Raytheon Company, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has upgraded the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) nodes for the Kansas and Indiana Air National Guard with the latest net-centric, cost-efficient and service-interoperable capabilities, the…

ATM Modernization

Saab Completes Sensis Acquisition

Saab has completed its $155 million acquisition of Sensis, of Syracuse, N.Y., the company announced Monday. The new company, Saab Sensis Corp., will leverage "Sensis’ and Saab’s advanced Air Traffic Management and…

Business & GA

G650 On Track for Certification This Year

Gulfstream said Thursday its ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range G650 recently completed several flight-testing milestones en route to its anticipated FAA and EASA type certification later this year. As of July 16, the four aircraft in…

ATM Modernization

FAA Returns to Work

Thousands of FAA employees and contractors returned to work on Monday, ending the two-week partial agency shutdown that furloughed thousands and halted progress on hundreds of airport infrastructure projects. On Friday, the…

ATM Modernization

Rohde & Schwartz Awarded ATC Radio Contract

Rohde & Schwarz, of Munich, Germany, was selected to provide its ground-based, stationary radio system for Colombia air traffic control organization AeroCivil, the company said Thursday. Under the terms of the contract,…

Business & GA

Curtiss-Wright Receives Thales Contract

Curtiss-Wright Controls received a $9 million contract from Thales U.K. to supply Boeing with the Tactical Data Unit and Data Transfer Unit for use in the Avionics Suite supplied for the U.K.…