CommercialARINC Names New CFO ARINC, Annapolis, Md., on Monday named Stephen L. Waechter vice president of business operations and chief financial officer. Waechter was most recently chief financial officer, treasurer and executive vice president at CACI…
Business & GAIS&S Upgrades PC-12 Avionics Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S), Exton, Pa., announced upgrades to its avionics system for the PC-12. Enhancements to the IS&S Flat Panel Display System for the PC-12 include a single-sided cockpit option;…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Awarded AMF JTRS Pact Northrop Grumman received a 56-month contract from Lockheed Martin worth up to $240 million to provide technologies for the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station (AMF) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). An initial $186.7…
ATM ModernizationFrom Definition to Development Air Traffic Management (ATM) of Europe’s highly fragmented airspace for now is dis-integrated. The European Commission (EC) and Eurocontrol have a vision for a very different future. But their dream of a…
Business & GAA Coming Phenom Want a user-friendly, cutting-edge flight deck with growth potential for, say, synthetic vision? No problem. Want the reliability and dispatch dependency learned from decades of making airliners engineered into the basic design…
MilitaryJSF Update At this writing, all 19 flight- and ground-test aircraft planned under the F-35 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase were in production or on the flight line, and assembly had begun on…
CommercialDatalink The value of aircraft datalink communications is proving itself on a daily basis, from the traditional aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) that transmits specific aircraft parameter data from the plane…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Wiring Crimp Splices Tyco Electronics, Harrisburg, Pa., introduced its D-200 MiniSeal Crimp Splices, which the company said are ideal for aerospace and defense applications. The splice combines a nickel-plated copper crimp barrel…