EADS North America Test and Services, based in Irvine, Calif., on Jan. 11 announced plans to acquire Trig-Tek, Inc., a Garden Grove, Calif.-based manufacturer of precision, dynamic test and measurement instruments for the U.S.…
FAA issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to Kansas State University to fly the PowerCat, a gas-driven unmanned aerial vehicle, above Crisis City, an emergency response training area near Salina, Kan. This is the…
BAE Systems, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), completed the first successful test flight of its small, electric-powered Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The system deployed in midair from…
CAE, based in Montreal, announced a contract amendment with Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) to provide a CAE 7000 Series Embraer 170/190 full-flight simulator (FFS). The change order amends a contract signed in June…
Russian aviation authorities have selected surface surveillance equipment from Era a.s., based in Fairfax, Va., for Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport, the Russian Federation’s largest airport. The selected equipment includes Era’s MSS multilateration and…
EMS Technologies has formed a new division, called EMS Aviation, which will allow it to combine its efforts to address connectivity needs for virtually any aircraft, the company said Wednesday. EMS Aviation will include…
InterSense, of Billerica, Mass., received additional funding from NASA for the continued development and testing of an inertial-optical head tracking system for commercial pilots. InterSense is developing a miniaturized inertial-optical tracker prototype…
Elbit Systems of America was awarded a $15.6 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command for its Tactical Video Data Link (TVDL) for the USMC AH-1W Attack Helicopter. The contract effort covers…