Editor's Note

Staco Systems

Industry Leader in Human-to-Machine Interface Solutions Staco Systems is the preeminent provider of dependable, high-precision Human-to-Machine Interface (HMI) solutions that assure the performance and protection of high-value, mission-critical assets and personnel. For…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Software

Airplane avionics systems are wholly dependent on software, but rarely does anyone but a software engineer wonder whether the programs that keep the plane aloft are anything but perfect in their operation.…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Engineering NextGen

With less outside acknowledgement than one might expect, FAA over the second quarter awarded six major contracts for engineering work supporting the Next Generation Air Transportation System. The Systems Engineering 2020 contracts…

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New Products

Inertial Measurement Unit NovAtel, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, released an addition to its GNSS/INS SPAN product family, the IMU-LCI. The IMU-LCI inertial measurement unit (IMU) contains a Northrop Grumman sensor that…

Business & GA

Industry Scan

Commercial COMAC C919 Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) in July signed agreements with joint ventures involving GE Aviation and Rockwell Collins to provide avionics for the new C919 family of…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Poor Man’s Radar

High-tech systems that allow you to hover blind won’t be coming to your helicopter anytime soon. Meanwhile, our critical need remains a few more seconds of good references and a few dozen…

ATM Modernization

People

Kevin Wright TTTech, based in Vienna, Austria, named Kevin Wright executive vice president of TTTech North America. In his new role, Wright also takes responsibility for TTTech Group’s global activities in the…

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Calendar

August 18 Airborne RFID: Radio Frequency Identification Takes Off, an Avionics Magazine webinar, noon to 1 p.m. EST. For information and to register, visit www.aviationtoday.com/webinars/2010-0818.html 24-27 Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International…