Embedded Avionics

Jammer Next

With the award of technology maturation contracts to four industry teams in July, the U.S. Navy NextGen Jammer (NGJ) program within two years will advance from competing concepts to prototypes of the…

Commercial

IFE System Health

The AEEC Cabin Systems Subcommittee (CSS) has developed Supplement 1 to ARINC Specification 628: “Cabin Equipment Interface (CEI), Part 8, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Equipment Standard Availability Measurement Guidelines,” adopted by the AEEC…

Commercial

Product Focus: Test Equipment

About four months into its most important modernization program for the testing of aircraft avionics, automatic test equipment (ATE) engineers at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are excited about how…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Optical Network Interconnections French aerospace connector manufacturer Souriau and Protokraft, of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed optical network interconnections using Souriau’s ELIO optical interfaces. Protokraft introduced the Sabre Series of high-speed optoelectronic solutions…

Military

CAE Wins C-5 Trainer Contracts

CAE was awarded a $10 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade two C-5 Galaxy weapon systems trainers (WST). The contract includes options to upgrade additional C-5 WSTs as well…

Commercial

American Airlines Uses Naverus RNP

An American Airlines flight on Aug. 26 became the first-ever U.S. flight to use a publicly available, commercial designed Required Navigation Performance approach, according to GE Aviation and its Naverus subsidiary. American Airlines 737 NG…

ATM Modernization

Northrop Grumman Wins Korean ATC Contract

Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by Korea's Public Procurement Service to provide an air traffic communication system for air-ground communication…