Embedded Avionics

Boeing Relocates C-130 AMP, B-1 Programs

Boeing announced plans Monday to relocate its C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) and B-1 program from Long Beach, Calif., to Oklahoma City to provide Boeing with "a more competitive cost structure for customers."…

Military

L-3 Link to Build F-22 Full Mission Trainers

 L-3 Link Simulation & Training was awarded $39.2 million in production contracts from Boeing to build 12 F-22 Full Mission Trainers (FMT). Boeing developed and implemented the overall F-22 Training System, which…

Business & GA

Garmin Adds Connectivity to GA Cockpit

Garmin, based in Olathe, Kan., announced the GSR 56 Iridium datalink and GDL 59 data logger and Wi-Fi datalink, bringing worldwide weather, voice communication and data communication to the cockpit for general aviation pilots.…

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…

ATM Modernization

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…