Commercial

Editor's Note: Airshow Revisited

It didn’t bode well that I arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport simultaneously with several other flights from who knows where. Because of that unfortunate coincidence, I had more than an hour to…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Military Project Julius Thales in July reported delivering the first shipset of avionics hardware it is providing for British Royal Air Force CH-47 Chinooks as part of Project Julius, a $650 million…

ATM Modernization

People

Ken Tollstam SRA International, of Fairfax, Va., named Ken Tollstam vice president within its Aviation Programs business group. Tollstam will be responsible for leveraging SRA’s technology in the domestic air-traffic management (ATM)…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

September 13-16 Autotestcon 2010, Marriott Orlando World Center Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Visit http://autotestcon.com. 13-16 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Annual Conference & Exhibition, Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center,…

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…

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…