CommercialRockwell Collins Buys DataPath Rockwell Collins announced plans to buy DataPath, Inc., a Duluth, Ga.-based satcom communications company, in a cash transaction worth about $130 million. DataPath, Inc., which has more than 600 employees around the world,…
CommercialPanasonic Avionics Launches TV Network Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., launched Panasonic Airline Television Network, a proprietary broadcast TV distribution network. The network includes a broadcast TV channels specifically licensed by Panasonic for worldwide distribution…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: Hotels And Bizjets I was comparing notes with my brother the other day about the sorry state of the economy. He’s an executive at a luxury resort in Florida. Nice place, to say the least.…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Congress Resumes FAA Reauthorization Effort Long-awaited FAA reauthorization legislation that provides $70 billion to the agency over four years through fiscal 2012, including funding for the NextGen air-traffic control modernization, was progressing…
ATM ModernizationPeople Rusty Roberts Rusty Roberts was named director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems (ATAS) laboratory. The laboratory is one of two units based at the Cobb…
ATM ModernizationCalendar April 1-4 Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) 52nd Annual International Convention and Trade Show. Gaylord Texas Resort and Convention Center, Dallas. Contact AEA, phone 816-347-8400 or visit www.aea.net. May 3-6 Army Aviation Association…
MilitaryIntelligence Upgrade Just how valuable the intelligence gathered by the RC-12 Guardrail aircraft is to U.S. Army ground commanders is rarely disclosed. The ground-based Guardrail system uses airborne receivers to collect signals intelligence (SIGINT)…
Business & GACustom Cabins The "office in the sky" concept as it applies to business jets has been talked about for almost as long as there have been business jets in the sky, but in the…