Business & GAProduct Focus: GPS WAAS With manufacturers only recently releasing their first-generation GPS WAAS products, operators are just now getting their hands around current capabilities of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). However, the imminent expansion of…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Battery Tester Concorde Battery Corp., West Covina, Calif., introduced the BC-5000 Battery Capacity Tester (Concorde P/N 4163). The company said the tester, which weighs 10 pounds and measures 12 inches long, 9…
CommercialPerspectives: Mapping Turbulence Let’s stop flying into turbulence to find it! Let’s avoid beverage spills in our laps and flight attendants bouncing around the cabin. There exists a unique form of GPS processing with subsequent…
MilitaryBoeing Receives B-52 Contract Boeing received a $750 million, 10-year contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide engineering support for the B-52 bomber. Under the Engineering Sustainment Program (ESP) contract, Boeing will perform engineering assignments…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Navy Contract Raytheon was awarded a $22.6 million contract for 151 electro-optical sensor unit weapon replaceable assemblies (WRA) from ATFLIR pods or spare deliveries; 154 laser WRAs from ATFLIR pods or spare deliveries; 154…
MilitaryData Link Solutions Wins Navy Contract Data Link Solutions (DLS), a joint venture of Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems, was awarded a $28.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide its Multi-functional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals…
CommercialEditor’s Note It’s auspicious for NextGen that new FAA Administrator J. Randolph "Randy" Babbitt chose to make his first public speech outside of Congress at the RTCA Symposium in June. Babbitt is not a…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Pilot Report: Bendix/King AV80R Portable Multifunction Display The day finally arrived and here it was — a new Bendix/King AV80R portable MFD. The unit came with a 4GB SD card, which contained…