Commercial

Product Focus: RNP Consulting

With its proven ability to ease air-traffic congestion, save fuel and facilitate approaches to airports that are encumbered by weather or terrain, performance-based navigation (PBN) is now an option being considered by…

Commercial

Perspectives: Acheiving NextGen

In mid-January, Hank Krakowski and Peggy Gilligan of the FAA asked RTCA to undertake a new task force initiative to serve as the catalyst for the collaboration essential to transforming the promise…

Military

Northrop Grumman Completes Sensor Flight Tests

Northrop Grumman said Thursday it completed initial testing of the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor. All dedicated mode flights have been completed in the Radar System Level Performance Verification (RSLPV)…

Commercial

GE Aviation to Develop Wireless Technology

GE Aviation is developing wireless data gathering and transmission technology for aircraft applications in support of the WiTNESSS (WIreless Technologies for Novel Enhancement of Systems and Structures Serviceability) initiative.  The WiTNESSS consortium…

Business & GA

Cobham Awaits Part 25 SVS Approval

Cobham Avionics is “within weeks” of obtaining FAA supplemental type certification of a synthetic vision system (SVS) on a Part 25 transport-category aircraft, which will be its first such SVS certification, the…

Military

Insitu Invests in Canadian UAV Market

Boeing subsidiary Insitu on Thursday announced the first $25 million in contracts to Canadian companies as part of a government order for small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) services. The Canadian government in…

Military

Raytheon Awarded AESA Contract

Raytheon was awarded a $54 million U.S. Navy contract to retrofit Super Hornet block II aircraft with APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars. The award by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent…

Commercial

ASG Awarded Satcom STC

Avionics Support Group (ASG), a Miami-based avionics systems integration, engineering, installation and manufacturing company, was awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) from FAA to install a Rockwell Collins SAT 2000 Inmarsat satellite communications…