MilitaryNavy Acquires Lot of Airborne Attack Systems The U.S. Navy is acquiring a third lot of Northrop Grumman Improved Capability (ICAP) III airborne electronic attack systems for its fleet of EA-6B Prowlers under a $101.9 million contract. Under terms…
Business & GASkyTrac Signs Satcom Deal with Sloan SkyTrac, Kelowna, British Columbia, will provide satellite communication and flight following systems to Sloan Helicopters, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sloan Helicopters, a provider of charter services for…
MilitaryGeneral Dynamics Wins Radome Contract General Dynamics was selected by Boeing to provide wideband radomes for the F-15 Radar Modernization Program (RMP). Financial terms were not disclosed. The contract covers the design, development and production of wideband…
CommercialEra Acquired Era Corp., a manufacturer of surveillance and flight tracking technologies, will be acquired by SRA International, Fairfax, Va., the companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction…
MilitaryScanEagle Hits Milestones The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a joint effort of Boeing and Insitu, Bingen, Wash., logged a pair of service milestones as it topped 50,000 combat flight hours with the U.S. Marines in Iraq…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: UAS In Civil Airspace For each of the past two years that I served as chairman of an avionics conference in Amsterdam, two prominent advocates of mainstreaming unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in civil airspace challenged, even…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Systems Development Improved On Tranche 2 Typhoon Improved systems development tools and processes have helped shorten the development lifecycle of the Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon, which is scheduled for deliveries to…
ATM ModernizationPeople Joseph B. Smith Alto Aviation, Leominster, Mass., named Joseph B. Smith senior quality manager. Smith has more than 25 years experience in manufacturing, wire harness cable, electromechanical devices and sub assemblies. Alto…