MilitaryAeroVironment Awarded Army UAV Contract AeroVironment, Monrovia, Calif., was awarded $5.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to procure research, development, test & evaluation digital data link effort for the Raven RQ-11B unmanned aircraft System. Work will be…
CommercialFAA Signs Contract with Honeywell, ACSS FAA signed a $9 million agreement with Honeywell and Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) to accelerate testing and installation of Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) technology. Acting FAA Administrator said the contracts…
MilitaryNet-Centric Operations Supplement: Battlespace Transformation In less than 10 years, the Network-Centric Operations (NCO) concept has emerged from the pages of scholarly journals to become a major military initiative commanding a significant portion of U.S. defense spending.…
MilitaryNet-Centric Operations Supplement: Beginning JTRS After more than a decade in development, the Pentagon’s software-defined Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) has never been closer to reality. Major contracts have been awarded, and the program’s Airborne, Maritime and…
MilitaryNet-Centric Operations Supplement: A Networked NATO The growing United States commitment to Net-Centric Operations and the rise of coalition military operations are driving the development of international net-centric initiatives. Since the allied actions in Kosovo in the 1990s,…
MilitaryNet-Centric Operations Supplement: Future Combat, Unmanned Systems The U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, its technology development and modernization plan, is best known for its terrain-bound vehicles like the Non-Line-of-Sight Canon and the unmanned ground vehicle, as well…
CommercialEmbedded Overall Despite driving key technologies in systems ranging from pacemakers to fighter aircraft, embedded software has not received nearly the recognition of high-profile enterprise applications. The embedded market “is not as big as…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: Light Jets Burdened One of the interesting subplots of this year’s National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Orlando was the state of the light-to-Very Light Jet (VLJ) sectors. A year ago, we were quoting…