Business & GAProduct Focus: Connectors Customers’ ever-present demands of more, cheaper, lighter and faster are prompting a wave of high-density interconnect devices, particularly in the commercial and military aviation sectors. Aviation connector companies say faster, lighter options…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Software Upgrade Avidyne, Lincoln, Mass., released a software upgrade for its EX500 multifunction displays (MFD). The company said the software expands the range of XM WX Satellite Weather data displayed and simplifies…
Business & GAEurocontrol Focuses on WAM Eurocontrol announced a plan Thursday to promote broader awareness of Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) to provide technical and financial benefits to airspace users. WAM, a technique in which several ground receiving stations…
MilitaryCPI Wins E-3 Contract CPI Aerostructures, Edgewood, N.Y., won a $500,000 contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with electrical panel assemblies for the E-3 Airborne Early Warning aircraft’s GPS system. The company said work will…
MilitaryLuxell Displays Pass Review Ontario-based Luxell Technologies said its ruggedized military displays for the Airbus A400M passed critical design review. The new displays are the vide display and multi-function display for the A400M, a military cargo…
CommercialJETEYE Wins SAFETY Designation BAE Systems received designation from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for its JETEYE aircraft missile defense system, which is developed to protect commercial airliners against infrared-guided missiles. The company received SAFETY…
CommercialACSS to Study TCAS, TAWS System on A320 L-3 Communications said ACSS, an L-3 and Thales company, signed an agreement with Airbus to study the certification of its integrated traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS), terrain awareness warning system…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Tests Joint STARS System Northrop Grumman completed its first test flight of an enhanced targeting capability for the U.S. Air Force's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) from its facility in Melbourne, Fla.…