Business & GAARINC 429 Celebrates 30 Years ARINC 429, the databus backbone for commercial aircraft, is celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday. And despite drastic changes in the avionics industry in those three decades, this standard is still "alive and…
CommercialSandia Studies Sensors Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., say networks of sensors mounted on commercial aircraft might one day continually check for the formation of structural defects, and could reduce or…
ATM ModernizationThales Announces ADS-B Milestones Thales, one of the companies involved in bidding for FAA’s pending Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) contract, said it achieved several milestones for its ADS-B services. Industry teams led by ITT, Raytheon and…
MilitaryAESA Radar in Full Rate Production Raytheon said its F/A-18 Super Hornet Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar is moving into full rate production following U.S. Navy approval. The company said the production of the AESA APG-79 line…
MilitaryMarines Transition to Shadow UAVs United Industrial Corp. said its AAI Corp. subsidiary will help the U.S. Marine Corps transition to the Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems (TUAS). The Marine Corps, which is retiring its Pioneer UAV…
MilitaryGAO Backs C-130 AMP Reimbursements Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and BAE Systems are entitled to reimbursement from the U.S. Air Force for proposal preparation costs associated with the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP), according to a Government…
MilitaryElbit Wins EO Contract Israel-based Elbit Systems said its subsidiary Elbit Systems Electro-Optics (Elop) won a $37 million contract from an unnamed foreign customer to supply electro-optical (EO) payloads for attack and utility helicopters. The company…
Business & GASYSGO, OIS Forge Partnership Objective Interface Systems (OIS) and German-based SYSGO formed a technology alliance to integrate OIS' communications technologies with SYSGO's portfolio of operating systems. OIS, based in Herndon, Va., and SYSGO said the product…