MilitaryF-35 'CATBird' Hits Avionics Milestone Lockheed Martin's Cooperative Avionics Test Bed, or "CATBird," has begun in-flight integration and verification of the F-35 Lightning II mission systems suite, the company announced Monday. The CATBird, a modified 737, will…
Business & GAJet Works Air Center Awarded STC Jet Works Air Center in Denton, Texas, was awarded two FAA supplemental type certificates for the installation of the Rockwell Collins AHS-3000S Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) on the Learjet 31A and installation of…
Business & GAThrane & Thrane Broadband System OKed Thrane & Thrane, of Denmark, received Inmarsat Type Approval for its Aero-SB Lite cabin connectivity system. The approval will enable the system to utilize the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband service. Aero-SB Lite system provides…
CommercialSAE International Developing TTP Standard SAE International, based in Warrendale, Pa., said its AS-2 Embedded Computing Systems Committee is developing a new aerospace standard that it hopes will help simplify the design of advanced integrated systems using time-triggered protocol…
MilitaryRaytheon Wins Navy Contract Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems was awarded a $17.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for repair overhaul of various weapons replaceable assemblies used on the Airborne Low Frequency Sonar utilized on the MH-60R…
MilitaryBoeing Completes NATO AWACS Upgrade A team led by Boeing completed a major mission-system upgrade for the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet under the $1.32 billion Mid-Term Modernisation Program. The upgrades include systems to…
MilitaryMQ-8B Fire Scout Demonstrates Radar, EO/IR Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS) demonstrated continuous combined payload coverage, successfully downlinking simultaneous digital video from both a Telephonics RDR-1700B multi-mode maritime radar and a FLIR Systems'…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Wins U.S. Army Contract Lockheed Martin was awarded a $16.9 million contract to modernize the final portion of the U.S. Army's Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight (M-TADS) system. Under the three-year firm, fixed-price contract,…