Commercial

SEA Acquires Global Aerospace Consulting

Southeast Aerospace (SEA), of Melbourne, Fla., an avionics distributor, MRO facility with PMA manufacturing capability, announced plans to acquire Global Aerospace Consulting, a systems design, integration, certification and technical publication company. Terms…

Business & GA

Goodrich Signs HUMS MOU With Sikorsky

Helicopter Support Inc., the support and distribution company of Sikorsky, on Tuesday with Goodrich Corp., of Charlotte, N.C., to jointly promote a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) for the global rotorcraft market. The…

Military

Lockheed Martin Awarded ATP Contract

Lockheed Martin has signed a $118 million foreign military sales contract to deliver Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods (ATP) and LANTIRN Enhanced Resolution (ER) navigation pods to the Turkish Air Force's F-16 Block…

ATM Modernization

Era System Selected for Frankfurt Airport

Era a.s., based in Fairfax, Va., said its Squid vehicle tracking units have been selected for Germany's Frankfurt Airport. The company said 228 Squid units will support the airport’s advanced surface movement…

Military

Northrop Grumman, Army Hit RC-12X Milestone

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army said it completed successful electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC) testing on the first RC-12X Guardrail, bringing the signals intelligence (SIGINT) system one step closer to providing mission-critical…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Acquires AR Group

Rockwell Collins said Monday it completed its acquisition of AR Group, Inc., and AR Group's affiliated companies, including Air Routing International, a provider of trip support services for business aircraft flight operations.…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Business/GA Head-Up Guidance Rockwell Collins in December received FAA certification of its HGS-6605 Head-Up Guidance System on the Bombardier Challenger 605. The head-up display was developed together with an Enhanced Vision System…

ATM Modernization

NextGen Special Section: Stacking Up SESAR, NextGen

The origins of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program and RTCA’s NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force, or Task Force 5 (TF5), differ significantly in that SESAR originated as a result…