Business & GA

Butler National to Buy Kings Avionics

Butler National, based in Olathe, Kan., announced plans Thursday to acquire Kings Avionics, of Salt Lake City. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Kings Avionics services aircraft ranging from single-engine piston airplanes…

Military

Northrop Grumman Awarded Air Force Contract

Northrop Grumman Space and Missions Systems, based in San Jose, Calif., was awarded a contract modification by the U.S. Air Force to provide a prototype sensor for the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper…

Military

Lockheed Martin to Provide Sensors to Army

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $65 million contract for the continued modernization of the Apache helicopter's Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system. The total contract value…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

November 11-12 Joint AEEC EFB Users Forum and International Air Transport Association (IATA) EFB Task Force Meeting. Eurocontrol headquarters, Brussels, Belgium. For information, visit www.aviation-ia.com/events or call 410-266-4113. December 8 Issues in…

Military

Common Countermeasures

Rushed to combat theaters last year, laser-pointing Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) protect U.S. helicopters from shoulder-launched missiles. The Army acknowledges the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) system on a Chinook defeated a…

ATM Modernization

Closing NextGen’s ‘Business Case’

An investment group led by ITT Corp. has developed a novel funding mechanism aimed at supporting airlines in buying and installing NextGen avionics beginning in 2012. The funding mechanism, involving a mix…

Editor's Note

Field Loadable Software

Picture two PCs on a desk. They’re both from the same manufacturer; they’re the same model and on the surface they seem to be loaded with the same software. But ask your…

Commercial

Product Focus: Wire & Cable

Wire and cable for aerospace and defense applications are often seen as commodity products, and, as such, manufacturers and distributors of these products have to please a broad spectrum of customers when…