Military

General Atomics Wins UAV Contract

General Atomics Aeronautical System was awarded an $18.7 million contract from the U.S. Army for system development and demonstration for the extended range/multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle. Work will be performed in San…

Military

Boeing Awarded Navy Pact

Boeing won a $6.8 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system services in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins to Buy Athena Technologies

Rockwell Collins will pay an undisclosed sum to acquire Athena Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that develops and provides flight control and navigation solutions primarily to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)…

Military

Boeing Wins JHMCS Contract

Boeing won a $24 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS) Full Rate Production four (FRP 4) for F-15E, JHMCS pilot equipment.

Business & GA

Product Focus: Displays

Consumer electronic influences and technological advances associated with the latest aircraft model types are spurring new display technologies in the cockpit. However, these advances, including 15-inch-displays and touch-screen technology, come with their…

Commercial

Explaining ARINC 818

The ARINC 818 "Avionics Digital Video Bus" standard was released in January 2007. Even before its official release, major programs by both Airbus (A400M military transport) and Boeing (787 Dreamliner) adopted the…

Military

Teeth of the Growler

Building airborne electronic attack (AEA) capability into the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter/attack aircraft posed packaging and integration challenges for prime contractor Boeing and AEA subsystem integrator Northrop Grumman. Compared to…

ATM Modernization

Europe’s Green Pursuit

A Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) Boeing 737 descends noiselessly to the threshold of Arlanda Airport at Stockholm, Sweden, having just completed a descent with engines at idle or nearly so. This is…