ATM ModernizationCongress Recesses Without Passing FAA Bill Congress recessed for its August break on Tuesday without extending FAA funds, leaving more than 4,000 FAA employees likely out of work until Congress reconvenes in September. The partial shutdown, which began…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Wins Arrowhead Contract The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $60 million follow-on production contract for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS), also known as Arrowhead, for the AH-64D Apache attack…
ATM ModernizationFAA Program Puts Controllers in Cockpit FAA on Monday re-established its Flight Deck Training program, allowing air traffic controllers to ride in aircraft cockpit with commercial pilots and giving them a greater understanding of pilots' experience and workload. …
ATM ModernizationIndustry Leader Profiles In this special Industry Leader Profiles section, Avionics Magazine highlights leading suppliers of products and services to the worldwide aerospace electronics sector. Many of these companies provide components across the spectrum, including…
Embedded AvionicsFrequentis to Provide ATC Services in Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) selected Frequentis to replace its existing voice communications system (VCS) for the Curacao area control center (ACC). The ACC currently uses an earlier Frequentis VCS…
Editor's Note‘Sunny’ Days in Paris The champagne corks have been popped, billion-dollar deals signed and aircraft orders have been finalized. Another Paris Air Show in the books. And after all of that, the aviation industry is celebrating…
Editor's NoteIndustry Scan AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Grizzle Tapped for ATO FAA’s Chief Counsel David Grizzle has been tapped to lead the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Administrator Randy Babbitt announced July 7. Grizzle will replace…
CommercialSharing the Sky The payoff of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military, law enforcement and scientific missions is constrained by the airspace they can share with manned aircraft. As of May 2011, one Broad Area…