Commercial

Sensis in China

China will deploy Sensis Corp.’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport, both located in central China. Sensis, Syracuse, N.Y., said the Air Traffic…

Commercial

Sensis in Dubai, Australia

Sensis Corp., Syracuse, N.Y., said Dubai World Central International Airport will deploy the company’s multilateration surveillance system, Multistatic Dependent Surveillance (MDS), for ground surveillance. Under construction south of Dubai in the United…

Commercial

SWIM Alliance Formed

A group of aerospace companies, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Harris Corp., formed an alliance to help advance the transformation of FAA’s System Wide Information Management (SWIM) initiative. The alliance was introduced…

Military

Boeing, Northrop Grumman Partner

Boeing and Northrop Grumman are partnering to develop a new airborne electronic attack capability for U.S. Air Force B-52H aircraft. The companies say the proposed B-52H Core Component Jammer (CCJ) program will…

Business & GA

Eclipse Speed Record

Very Light Jet manufacturer Eclipse Aviation, Albuquerque, N.M., said its Eclipse 500 set a National Aeronautic Association speed record for jet aircraft weighing 10,000 pounds or less. The Eclipse 500 beat the…

Commercial

Runway Vision System Installed

Vaisala Group, a Helsinki-based technology company, installed a PC-based Runway Visual Range (RVR) System at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport in Pennsylvania. The RVR installation consists of two visibility sensor sites at each end…

Commercial

Guardian System Hits Milestone

Northrop Grumman said its Guardian Counter-Man Portable Air Defense System (C-MANPADS), which is installed on nine wide-body aircraft flying in commercial revenue service, achieved 12,000 on-aircraft operational hours. The company began Phase…

Military

VSI Nets $60 Million in Contracts

Vision Systems International, a joint venture between Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems, signed a series of new contracts valued at more than $60 million. Boeing awarded VSI a contract for the delivery…