Military

BAE Awarded Infrared Contract

BAE Systems has been awarded a $49.9 million contract to develop the advanced processor for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) nighttime, infrared system - the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance – Infrared (ARGUS-IR).…

Commercial

Delta to Upgrade 747-400 Interiors

Delta Air Lines on Thursday unveiled plans to upgrade the interiors of its Boeing 747-400s flying primarily from the Tokyo-Narita hub to include new seats and new in-flight entertainment options. Between summer 2011 and 2012,…

Commercial

AD Aerospace Awarded FAR 145 Certification

AD Aerospace Ltd, Warrington U.K., achieved official FAA FAR 145 Repair Station approval, the company announced Wednesday. With the certification, all AD Aerospace FlightVu aircraft video safety and security equipment can now…

ATM Modernization

Northrop Grumman Wins U.K. ATC Contract

Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded contracts by NATS Services to provide surface movement radar and air traffic monitor systems for Heathrow…

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…