MilitaryHarris Wins Airborne Radio Contract Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla., is providing its new RF-7800W high-capacity line-of-sight radios to a U.S. government’s Real Time Airborne Management System (RAMS) for emergency scenarios. Financial terms were not disclosed. The radios…
MilitaryRockwell Collins Awarded E-6B Pact Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, won a $22.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the engineering, installation and test of the internet protocol and bandwidth expansion on one E-6B aircraft. Work…
CommercialPanasonic Avionics Wins 747-8 Pact Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forecast, Calif., will supply its Cabin Services System (CSS) on every Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airplane. Financial terms were not disclosed. In addition to this new contract, Panasonic also…
MilitarySELEX Selected for AESA Radar Pact SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, Arlington, Va., was selected to provide its Galileo Seaspray 7500E active electronically scanned array (AESA) surveillance radar system for the U.S. Coast Guard’s HC-130H upgrade program. The…
CommercialVirgin Blue Selects Rockwell Collins Australian low-fare airline Virgin Blue selected Rockwell Collins to provide its EP-1000CT image generator and Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) projector-based visual system for its Boeing 777 simulator. Financial terms of the…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Wins UAV ISR Contract Northrop Grumman was awarded a $1.16 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to develop the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS), using the company’s RQ-4N platform. The contract is…
CommercialA380 Simulator Acheives Level D Certification An A380 Full Flight Simulator (FFS), manufactured by CAE, Montreal, achieved Level D certification, the highest qualification for flight simulators, by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and FAA. Airbus is using…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman in UAV Sensor Contract Northrop Grumman received a $79.4 million contract for Global Hawk Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensors to be carried on the RQ-4 Block 40 Global Hawk high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial…