Commercial

Software Fixes Cause Airline Headache

A US Airways executive admonished aircraft component suppliers to do a better job in developing software that later must be fixed and reloaded, telling them to “get it right the first time.”…

Military

Raytheon Delivers IFF Equipment to Air Force

Raytheon on Tuesday said it delivered to the U.S. Air Force the first of the KIV-77 Mode 4/5 crypto applique computers for Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) equipment. Raytheon said the KIV-77 is…

Commercial

Novair Selects navAero EFB

Swedish tour operator Novair will install navAero's Class 2 tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) on its Airbus A321s. The contract includes cross-connected dual tBag C22 EFB with the tPad 2000 display, and…

Commercial

OnAir Terminates Agreement with Ryanair

OnAir, a joint venture of Airbus and SITA, on Monday announced the termination of its agreement with Irish carrier Ryanair.   After operating the OnAir service on 50 of its aircraft for about a…

Military

Elbit Systems Signs Warfare Contract

Elbit Systems subsidiary Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd. on Wednesday announced a $147 million contract with an undisclosed customer in Asia for airborne and ground electronic warfare (EW) systems. The systems will be…

Military

Presagis Forms Embedded Partnership

Presagis, based in Montreal, announced a partnership with S3 Graphics, Fremont, Calif.-based provider of graphics visualization technologies, to deliver driver support for the S3 Graphics 2300E Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to the embedded market. The…

Military

LynuxWorks Tests Separation Kernel

LynuxWorks, based in San Jose, Calif., said Monday its LynxSecure separation kernel went through a series of performance tests at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), to help assess the use of separation kernels for…

ATM Modernization

Northrop Grumman Tests Flight Data System

Northrop Grumman said Tuesday it installed a demonstration Real-Time Electronic Flight Data System (REFS) for the U.S. Air Force that will create a more efficient flight information system for air traffic controllers. REFS…