Business & GAEditor’s Note: UAVs Are Rising They were not to be seen flying overhead, like the graceful, giant Airbus A380 or the versatile Bell/Agusta 609 tiltrotor, but UAVs nevertheless played a prominent role this year at the Paris…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Ferrie: Next-Generation Narrowbody Requires Technology Leap Well before the first flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, perhaps its highest-profile platform, GE Aviation Systems is devoting attention to the next great challenge in…
ATM ModernizationPeople David Clark InterSense, of Bedford, Mass., named David Clark as European sales manager. In this role, Clark will be responsible for maintaining and expanding the European partner channel, focusing on the leading…
CommercialBlakey Sets ADS-B Contract Date FAA will award the contract for the ground infrastructure of Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) contract by Aug. 30, Administrator Marion Blakey said last week at the Experimental Aviation Association show in Oskosh,…
MilitaryITT Wins Air Force Contract ITT Corp.’s Advanced Engineering and Sciences Division won a $19.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide sensor research under the Electro-Optical Sensor Technology and Evaluation Research (ESTER) program. According…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Navy Pact Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems won a $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture spares for the MH-60R helicopter multispectral targeting system. Work will be performed in McKinney, Tex., and…
CommercialSensis Deploys ASDE-X System in Louisville Sensis Corp., East Syracuse, N.Y., said its Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X system (ASDE-X) at Louisville (Ky.) International Airport is operational. The ASDE-X system uses a combination of surface movement radar,…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Tests Networking System Northrop Grumman said it successfully integrated and tested its Joint Capability for Airborne Networking (JCAN) system for aeronautical and land vehicle applications. JCAN middleware provides a mobile, Internet Protocol-based airborne network infrastructure…